Books like 'Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 5'

Readers who enjoyed Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 5 by Rachel Kramer Bussel, Joanna Angel, Balli Kaur Jaswal, C.D. Reiss & Sabrina Sol also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.

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  • Without A Front – The Producer’s Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey

    Without A Front – The Producer’s Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When the Voloth invaded Alsea, Lancer Andira Tal thought the hard part would be fighting off a technologically advanced army. It wasn’t. In the aftermath of war, Alsean society is deeply divided and Tal is facing issues no Lancer has ever dealt with before...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  science fiction  futuristic  aliens  sports
  • The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

    The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 64 ratings
    A rollicking space adventure with a lot of heart. When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The patched-up ship has seen better days, but it offers her everything she could possibly want: a spot to call home, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and some distance from her past...
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  • Rangers at Roadsend by Jane Fletcher

    Rangers at Roadsend by Jane Fletcher

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After 9 years in the rangers, dealing with thugs and wild predators, Sergeant 'Chip' Coppelli has learned to spot trouble coming, and that is exactly what she sees in the unexplained discrepancies surrounding her new recruit, Katryn Nagata. But even so, Chip was not expecting murder...
  • The Significant by Kyra Anderson

    The Significant by Kyra Anderson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The beloved leader of a planet... A non-citizen fugitive... And a secret love that could kill them both. Kailynn Evada was born on the most powerful planet in the Altereye System, but was raised in the non-citizen district of Trid. She always dreamed of revolution and changing the injustices of the planet Tiao. But when her brother’s plot to destroy the A.I...
    Categorized as:
    queer  dystopian  science fiction  f-f  futuristic
  • Survival Instincts by May Dawney

    Survival Instincts by May Dawney

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Civilization ended long before Lynn Tanner was born. Wild animals roam the streets, but mankind is still the biggest threat to a woman alone in the ruins of a world reclaimed by nature. Lynn survives by sleeping with one eye open at all times and trusting no one but her dog...
  • Dancing in the Darkness by Lexa Luthor

    Dancing in the Darkness by Lexa Luthor

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 5 ratings
    Set deep in the Milky Way galaxy, the beautiful planet, Kander, has been inhabited only by the Kalmar, a race of Alphas and Omegas, until Earth’s humans arrived years ago and disrupted their peace. Since its first dawning, Kander has been ruled by one Kalmar simply known as Kal, a supreme Alpha who harnesses a god’s spirit...
  • Partners - Book One by Melissa Good

    Partners - Book One by Melissa Good

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After a massive volcanic eruption puts earth into nuclear winter, the planet is cloaked in clouds and no sun penetrates. Seas cover most of the land areas except high elevations which exist as islands where the remaining humans have learned to make do with much less. People survive on what they can take from the sea and with foodstuffs supplemented from an orbiting set of space stations...
  • Love and Gravity: A Graphic Novel by Ari North

    Love and Gravity: A Graphic Novel by Ari North

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Book 2 of the mega-popular webcomic series, Always Human. Love and Gravity is the finale of Ari North's heartwarming coming-of-age story about love, the future, and charting your own path."Healthy relationships and healthy conversations unfold in a sweet slice-of-life story...
  • Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon

    Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Elena Nevares is on the run. She’s a jacker, someone who connects to virtual reality with their brain, and everyone else on her crew was murdered during a mission gone wrong. Sasha Young is planning a rescue. She’s a handler, a team leader whose crew has been scattered by an evil corporation: Axys Generations...
  • The Walls of Westernfort by Jane Fletcher

    The Walls of Westernfort by Jane Fletcher

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Celaeno Series. All Natasha Ionadis wants is to serve the Goddess as a Temple Guard, and she volunteers eagerly for a dangerous mission to infiltrate a band of renegade warriors and imprinters. But, once away from the temple, the issues are no longer so simple and she must revaluate her beliefs, especially in light of her growing attraction for one of the outlaws...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  science fiction  futuristic
  • Protector of the Realm by Gun Brooke

    Protector of the Realm by Gun Brooke

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book One: Supreme ConstellationsWith the fate of entire civilizations at risk, the galactic battleground makes for unusual alliances and unexpected passions as two women from very different worlds join forces...
  • Rulebreaker by Cathy Pegau

    Rulebreaker by Cathy Pegau

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    Liv Braxton's Felon Rule #1: Don't get emotionally involved. Smash-and-grab thieving doesn't lend itself to getting chummy with the victims, and Liv hasn't met anyone on the mining colony of Nevarro worth knowing, anyway. So it's easy to follow her Rules. Until her ex, Tonio, shows up with an invitation to join him on the job of a lifetime...
  • Come to My Door by Lexa Luthor

    Come to My Door by Lexa Luthor

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Charlie always swore she'd go out with a bang! But it isn't her time, at least not in Kal's eyes. Questioning her survival, Charlie learns that the godly ruler brought her back from death. Charlie refuses to believe it, until she witnesses it for herself. Although Charlie isn't ready to face the truth behind Kal's actions, they continue their dangerous and secretive affair...
    Categorized as:
    queer  science fiction  f-f  futuristic  omegaverse
  • Hesam by Ami Wright

    Hesam by Ami Wright

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Dark shame, undone by the scent of her heat.No tail, no pride, no honor. Finally Hesam is about to prove to himself and everyone else that he deserves a place of prestige in the royal guard.But the dark, hungry part of him wants something more.Beautiful vivacious singer Rosa is too tempting to resist.He longs to taste her.Mark her.Stake his claim...
  • Slow River by Nicola Griffith

    Slow River by Nicola Griffith

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. Lore Van Oesterling had been the daughter of one of the world's most powerful families...and now she was nobody, and she had to hide...
    Categorized as:
    queer  science fiction  futuristic  f-f
  • Car Pool by Karin Kallmaker

    Car Pool by Karin Kallmaker

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ninety minutes, twice a day. Five days a week. Car pool heaven turns into car pool hell when Anthea Rossignole realizes her lover is having an affair with the other woman sharing their daily commute. It seems that Anthea’s succesfanul career as a cost analyst at an oil refinery is the only thing she can really count on these days. Now she’s looking for someone to share the long drive...
  • The Girls From Alcyone by Cary Caffrey

    The Girls From Alcyone by Cary Caffrey

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Sigrid and Suko are two girls from the impoverished and crime-infested streets of 24th century Earth. Sold into slavery to save their families from financial ruin, the girls are forced to live out their lives in service to the Kimura Corporation, a prestigious mercenary clan with a lineage stretching back long before the formation of the Federated Corporations...
  • Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 81 ratings
    The Emperor needs necromancers.The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth, first in The Locked Tomb Trilogy, unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants...
  • The Lily and the Crown by Roslyn Sinclair

    The Lily and the Crown by Roslyn Sinclair

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    Ariana “Ari” Geiker lives an isolated life on an imperial space station commanded by her father. The skilled, young botanist rarely leaves her living quarters, where she maintains an elaborate garden. When an imperious older woman is captured from a pirate ship and given to her as a slave, Ariana’s perfectly ordered life is thrown into chaos...
  • Always Human by Ari North

    Always Human by Ari North

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 16 ratings
    First serialized on the popular app and website WebToon, Always Human ran from 2015-2017 and amassed over 76,000 unique subscribers during its run. Now reformatted for a print edition in sponsorship with GLAAD, Always Human is a beautifully drawn graphic novel about a developing relationship between two young women in a near-future, soft sci-fi setting...
  • Crier's War by Nina Varela

    Crier's War by Nina Varela

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 34 ratings
    Impossible love between two girls —one human, one Made. A love that could birth a revolution.After the War of Kinds ravaged the kingdom of Rabu, the Automae, Designed to be the playthings of royals, took over the estates of their owners and bent the human race to their will...
  • The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz

    The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 20 ratings
    Clara Gutierrez is an AI repair technician and a wanderer. Her childhood with her migrant worker family has left her uncomfortable with lingering for too long, so she moves from place to place across retro-futuristic America. Sal is a fully autonomous robot. Older than the law declaring her kind illegal due to ethical concerns, she is at best out of place in society and at worst vilified...
  • Fixit by Erik Schubach

    Fixit by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fixit, she's out of this world... This short novella follows Fixit, a worker on the surface of Tau Ceti Prime. She is an ace mechanic who keeps the automated harvesting machines in good running order. She has never missed a quota in her efforts help to feed all the people “topside” in the giant floating cities in the sky...
  • Folkvangr by Erik Schubach

    Folkvangr by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Asgard have created a new permanent colony on Earth.As Kara and the rest of the Asgard prepare to transition away from Earth... Freya, using trickery, subterfuge, and cobbled together technology, fights for the very survival of the last of the Vanger race on Folkvangr...
  • Honor Bound by Rachel Caine, Ann Aguirre

    Honor Bound by Rachel Caine, Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Zara Cole was a thief back on Earth, but she’s been recently upgraded to intergalactic fugitive. On the run after a bloody battle in a covert war that she never expected to be fighting, Zara, her co-pilot Beatriz, and their Leviathan ship Nadim barely escaped the carnage with their lives. Now Zara and her crew of Honors need a safe haven, far from the creatures who want to annihilate them...
  • An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

    An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 54 ratings
    The Carls just appeared.Roaming through New York City at three AM, twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship—like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor—April and her best friend, Andy, make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day, April wakes up to a viral video and a new life...
  • This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

    This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 77 ratings
    Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal-El Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading...
  • Girls at the Edge of the World by Laura Brooke Robson

    Girls at the Edge of the World by Laura Brooke Robson

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Set in a world on the edge of an apocryphal flood, this heart-stoppingly romantic fantasy debut is perfect for fans of Rachel Hartman and Rae Carson.In a world bound for an epic flood, only a chosen few are guaranteed safe passage into the new world once the waters recede. The Kostrovian royal court will be saved, of course, along with their guards...
  • Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

    Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel. While we live, the enemy shall fear us. Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth...
  • Broken Throne by Victoria Aveyard

    Broken Throne by Victoria Aveyard

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 25 ratings
    Return once more to the deadly and dazzling world of Red Queen in Broken Throne, a beautifully designed, must-have companion to the chart-topping series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Aveyard...
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