The Sapphic Atlas is a curated, searchable map of over 5,500 sapphic and lesbian fiction novels from 2,000+ authors, organized by their real-world settings.
Whether you're looking for a slow burn set on the coast of Maine, an enemies to lovers story in London, or contemporary romance in a small Australian town, this atlas lets you discover sapphic fiction through the places that shape them.
The setting shapes a book as much as anything else. The city, the coastline, the small town a character keeps trying to leave. Readers notice this. A lot of us seek it out deliberately.
The Sapphic Atlas started with a simple question. What does it look like to map where sapphic stories actually take place?
It’s a growing map of real settings in sapphic fiction from around the world. Readers can explore these locations and discover books by where their stories unfold.
Created by Elizabeth Golden, always updating.