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Help me find fantasy books with lesbian heroines!

Hey, all. First post ever, so be gentle.

I love to read. Always have. I've never gotten too heavy into the general fiction, though. No, my cup of tea is more sword-slinging, armor wearing, tough talking heroes fighting evil villains and playing with deep magicks.

Unsurprisingly, I've always enjoyed fantasy novels that have had strong female characters as the leads, such as Phedre from Jacqueline Carey's "Kushiel's Dart" books.

This got me to thinking.

As a lesbian, I love to read about lesbian relationships because I can relate to them or find them interesting. Heterosexual relationships in my fantasy novels seem dry to me - I can't get too interested in them. I've certainly tried: my bookshelves are full of fantasy books of the Dragonlance series, and other assorted series I've picked up along the way.

I guess what I'm asking is this: how can I find fantasy books with lesbian heroines? There is a Chapters store in my town, as well as a Coles bookstore, but there's no real way of knowing which novels have lesbians in them without sitting in the aisles and going book-by-book, which'd take hours.

Searching on Chapters.ca doesn't give me any further help.

Does anyone have any suggestions for fantasy novels with lesbians kicking ass and making girls swoon? Or perhaps you know of websites that have lists of these books? I've not been able to find any of those, either.

Any help would be wonderful, as I'm currently rereading silly teen novels from my pre-teen years and I'm quickly growing bored.

Thanks!

 (Please note that I didn't include Science Fiction in my interests! I dislike Sci-Fi novels. I've never really gotten into them at all - and I've certainly tried, with books such as Ender's Game.)

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