2023-06-08 10:30
Many Black authors have spoken about the difficulties of being pigeon-holed by the publishing industry into writing only about Black trauma. While learning about racism, both historical… Read More
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2023-06-07 10:30
Here’s a trope I didn’t realize I loved in a YA novel: complicated families. Whether it’s an unusual family configuration, strained parent relationships, or long-lost s… Read More
2023-06-06 10:30
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I’m not sure when I bought the ebook for Upright Women Wanted. It was probably on sale, and when I heard that there were lesb… Read More
2023-06-06 10:30
For the first week of Pride, we’ve got nine sapphic book releases to highlight in a range of genres. There’s translated fiction, a historical suspense novel, fantasy romance… Read More
2023-06-05 10:30
Would you believe that more than 38 sapphic books come out this month? It’s true! Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to find out which books have queer representation, or wh… Read More
2023-06-03 10:30
From the pulpy paperbacks of bygone eras to the neon-saturated teen slashers of today, the vampire has been an integral figure in sapphic storytelling. I personally think the metaphor is a l… Read More
2023-06-02 10:30
For Pride month, the Lesbrary has posts going up every day in June! Today, we’re celebrating bi and lesbian mermaid books (plus a bonus couple of selkies).
Each of these books h… Read More
2023-06-01 10:35
Welcome to Pride Month at the Lesbrary! We’re celebrating with a post every day. We’re starting with an updated version of my giant list of all the sapphic books I’ve r… Read More
2023-05-28 10:30
Natasha West’s 200 Hours is the kind of romcom that I would happily lead the crowdfunding effort in order to see on the screen. Set in the UK, West’s motley crew of character… Read More
2023-05-27 20:53
I follow hundreds of queer book blogs to scout out the best sapphic book news and reviews! Many of them get posted on Tumblr and Twitter as I discover them, but my fa… Read More
2023-05-27 10:30
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Samantha Shannon’s high fantasy novel Priory of the Orange Tree made a pretty big splash when it came out in 2019. Not only d… Read More
2023-05-22 10:30
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Talk about a painfully relatable read. I’m almost glad this wasn’t around when I was a teen, because I’m not sure… Read More
2023-05-18 10:30
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Since the days of lesbian pulp fiction, Greenwich Village has been seen as a gay hub, a refuge for queer people from all over the c… Read More
2023-05-16 10:30
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In 2014, I read The Big Bang Symphony by Lucy Jane Bledsoe based solely on the fact that it was included on a book list called &ldq… Read More
2023-05-15 10:35
I follow hundreds of queer book blogs to scout out the best sapphic book news and reviews! Many of them get posted on Tumblr and Twitter as I discover them, but my fa… Read More
2023-05-13 10:30
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Zoe Whittall is a master at writing broody queer novels, and ever since reading Bottle Rocket Hearts, I just can’t resist the… Read More
2023-05-10 01:32
Red Rebellion is a sapphic fairy tale fantasy that follows Robin Hood and Red Riding Hood as they team up to save their village while navigating their growing feelings for each other. It… Read More
2023-05-09 10:30
May is packed full of queer new releases, and this week is no exception! We have a couple of bisexual fantasy series, some sapphic horror, and a whole lot of YA this week. The descriptio… Read More
2023-05-08 10:30
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Last year, I reviewed She Gets the Girl written by Alyson Derrick and her wife, Rachael Lippincott, and really enjoyed it. So when… Read More
2023-05-07 10:30
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Now that I’m twice the age of many of the protagonists in Young Adult books, I have a different relationship with them. I sti… Read More
2023-05-06 10:30
Would you believe that more than 50 sapphic books come out this month? It’s true! Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to find out which books have queer representation, or wh… Read More
2023-05-05 10:29
Winner of the Reader Views Fiction Book of the Year
“Your eyes are amazing. I’ve never seen a blue like that.”
Emma Landry is tough, independent, beautiful, and s… Read More
2023-05-04 10:30
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Armenian culture and self discovery are primary themes in Sorry, Bro by Taleen Voskuni. These themes are the strengths of the book… Read More
2023-05-03 10:30
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Laura Kay could teach a masterclass on the low-key, wholesome, slightly messy queer rom com, as exemplified in her third novel, Wil… Read More
2023-05-02 10:30
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Sometimes when I’m reading/watching something, I think: what if this dashing, cavalier, risk-taking, slightly messy hero was… Read More
2023-05-01 10:30
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Mickey is a Black queer author in NYC trying to make a name for herself. She knows that she’s a great writer, with incisive c… Read More
2023-04-30 10:30
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Six years ago (!!), I read Girl Friends by Milk Morinaga, a yuri manga series I’d heard recommended endlessly. I was happy to… Read More
2023-04-29 10:30
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Ann Leckie is probably my favorite author. She writes excellent science fiction and fantasy, and her books are jam packed with incr… Read More
2023-04-28 10:30
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Content warnings: homophobia (from antagonists), drug abuse (marijuana, alcohol)My experience with Improbable Magic for Cynica… Read More
2023-04-26 10:30
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In The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older creates a cozy murder mystery in humanity’s distant future on Jupiter… Read More
2023-04-24 10:30
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Out of all of Shakespeare’s comedies, The Tempest has always stuck out to me as particularly odd. The play’s initial pr… Read More
2023-04-11 10:30
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Equal parts science fiction, historical fiction, and lesbian fiction, The Gilda Stories (1991) by Jewelle Gomez is a clas… Read More
2023-04-05 10:30
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The Tea Dragon Society is a short graphic novel composed of the most concentrated adorableness I have ever encountered. It centers… Read More
2023-04-03 10:30
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In this retelling of The Great Gatsby, Jordan Baker narrates the story from the perspective of a queer, Asian woman adopted by a wh… Read More
2023-03-27 10:30
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I’ve been having a good run with horror lately, and Alison Rumfitt’s stunning work of trans horror Tell Me I’m Wo… Read More
2023-03-24 10:30
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I picked up this li’l werewolf book off of a Twitter recommendation – vampires, ghouls, shifters – I expected som… Read More
2023-03-18 10:30
In case you missed it, there’s a Trans Rights Readathon happening next week! Read books by trans authors and raise money for trans organizations.
@simkern Official kickoff for th… Read More
2023-03-14 10:30
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Celia Bell’s debut novel, The Disenchantment (Pantheon 2023), is a stunning example of queer historical fiction at… Read More
2023-03-09 14:30
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Taleen Voskuni’s promising sapphic debut packs more than your average meet-cute romance. Sorry, Bro follows an Armenian Ameri… Read More
2023-03-02 11:30
I went looking for one of Wallace’s newer books at the library and, to my delight, stumbled on a few of her older books, which is always a nice surprise when you find a new author… Read More
2023-02-28 11:30
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In the second of the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir, we follow the story of Harrow. But this isn’t the same Harrow from Gi… Read More
2023-02-27 11:30
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Last year, I was delighted by A Marvellous Light, a gay murder mystery/romance in which Robin, a newly-made Baronet, is a… Read More
2023-02-25 19:23
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If you spend much time on Tumblr—and who doesn’t, these days—there’s a good chance you’ve seen at lea… Read More
2023-02-23 11:30
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The Gathering Dark is a collection of folk horror short stories. I went into this book expecting the folk horror short stories… Read More
2023-02-15 11:30
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Alone in Space is a collection of short comics and standalone pieces by Tillie Walden. Some of the pieces have already been release… Read More
2023-02-14 11:30
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Described as a cross between Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt… Read More
2023-02-09 11:30
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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya came onto my radar via her essays and pop culture criticism on Autostraddle (where she is Managing Editor) a… Read More
2023-01-28 11:30
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I’m not all that into superheroes—I don’t really read comic books, I don’t follow superhero media—but… Read More
2023-01-27 11:30
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I must confess that I’d seen the cover of Legends and Lattes pop up a number of times and thought to myself, eh, too much of… Read More
2023-01-26 11:30
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Trigger warnings: gore, torture, death, mutilation, sexual assault, child abuse, violence, harassment… and likely others I&r… Read More
2023-01-16 11:30
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I have been really into horror lately, and finding a lesbian sci-fi horror was a real boon for me, and The Luminous Dead … Read More
2023-01-03 11:30
Something I’ve discovered recently is that you can tell a lot about a person based on which Tamora Pierce series they loved as a child. Song of the Lioness fan? Congratulations on your… Read More
2023-01-01 11:30
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Sweet yet angsty. Coming of age and coming out stories. A meet cute that’s…not so cute. Jewish holiday rom com. All th… Read More
2023-01-01 01:43
Christopher and Haf meet at a university Christmas party one night and after drunkenly kissing under the mistletoe, they’re mistaken for a couple. Rather than own up to the truth t… Read More
2022-12-29 11:35
I always enjoy looking back at my favourite reads of the year at about this time, and I read so many great queer books this year. The books on this list are not only books out in 2022, t… Read More
2022-12-24 15:58
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Note: This a HarperCollins title. The HarperCollins union has been on strike since November 10th, asking for better pay, more diver… Read More
2022-12-22 11:30
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Séance Tea Party begins with Lora, a lost young person somewhere between girlhood and womanhood. Growing up looms large thro… Read More
2022-12-19 11:30
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I was ecstatic when I heard that Malinda Lo was writing a loosely connected follow up to Last Night at the Telegraph Cub … Read More
2022-12-13 12:00
To celebrate the release of Fire, Water, and Rock, Alaina Erdell is giving away three signed copies.
When budding geologist Jessica Sterling arrives to work on her thesis wh… Read More
2022-12-13 11:30
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From the author of The Year of the Witching (Penguin 2020) comes a new queer Gothic novel about blood, power, and control… Read More
2022-12-10 11:30
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This may be my favourite book I’ve read this year, and there’s been some stiff competition.
How Far the Light Reache… Read More
2022-12-08 14:30
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Mistakes Were Made, Meryl Wilsner’s second f/f romance following 2020’s acclaimed Something to Talk About, is billed as… Read More
2022-12-06 11:30
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Claudia is a private detective, of a sort: she works for Veracity, an exclusive company that investigates people who are lying to t… Read More
2022-12-05 11:35
December is a slow publishing time, but there are still some gems out this month you shouldn’t miss! It’s not always easy to find out which new releases have queer representa… Read More
2022-12-05 11:30
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This is a YA sapphic heist story set on the Titanic. I’m sure most of you have already stopped reading to go add it to your w… Read More
2022-12-04 11:30
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It’s hard to summarize Helen Oyeyemi’s White is for Witching, as this is a novel less with plot and more with vibes. Bu… Read More
2022-11-26 11:30
You won’t catch me trying to write any novellas this November (respect for anyone who tries to write 50,000 words in a month, it’s just not in my plans any time soon), but I did… Read More
2022-11-25 11:30
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Of all the tropes in the world, the twin swap was not one that I would have thought myself a fan of, and yet… I might be now… Read More
2022-11-24 11:30
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The Stone Child is book 3 in the Misewa Saga, following foster siblings Eli and Morgan, who discover that they can travel to a… Read More
2022-11-21 11:30
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Queer Little Nightmares, an anthology edited by David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli is a fun and sometimes terrifying collection of quee… Read More
2022-11-16 11:30
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Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken by Nita Tyndall is a queer YA historical fiction novel—a genre that I had yet to come across… Read More
2022-11-15 11:20
We’re excited to launch our next issue of MERAKI: a lesbian LGBTQ+ comic book series set in a futuristic world infused with Greek mythology.
I created MERAKI, because I wanted t… Read More
2022-11-14 11:30
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The Wicked Remain by Laura Pohl is the follow-up to last year’s The Grimrose Girls and exactly the conclusion… Read More
2022-11-08 11:30
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Famous Canadian author Ann-Marie MacDonald returns with an incredible new historical novel. Fayne (2022) sweeps readers away to an expansive world of f… Read More
2022-11-05 16:26
Would you believe that more than 26 sapphic books come out this month? It’s true! Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to find out which books have queer representation, or wh… Read More
2022-11-03 10:30
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I’m always impressed by books that are co-written, but a book with three writers?! A menage-an-author? The Errant series is written by L.K. Fleet, the pen… Read More
2022-10-31 10:30
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It’s Halloween, and I know exactly which book you should read cover to cover today.
Joey is meeting her boyfriend’s… Read More
2022-10-31 10:00
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At the risk of being profoundly cliche (and profoundly redundant as I reviewed a graphic novel last month), I’ve decided to r… Read More
2022-10-30 11:00
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ʼTis at last that most frightful and morbid of months, a spooky season of ghosts and ghouls, the danse macabre we raise our ja… Read More
2022-10-30 10:30
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During October this year, I tried to pack my TBR with seasonal, Halloween-adjacent reads, and The Restless Dark looked like the per… Read More
2022-10-29 21:41
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On paper, this should have been the perfect book for me to read Halloween month. I’m fascinated by the historical figure of E… Read More
2022-10-27 10:30
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This dark fairy tale dances on the line between fantasy and horror. It follows Devon, a book eater, who is part of one of the arist… Read More
2022-10-25 10:30
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Ready to cut loose from her life serving the Ninth House and a doomed future, Gideon makes plans to escape the planet, but Harrow h… Read More
2022-10-24 10:30
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This is the sort of review best begun with a caveat that I intend no ill will toward those who enjoyed the book… but maybe t… Read More
2022-10-20 10:30
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“She had never been brave–but she’d always been angry. It would have to be enough.
I picked up this Welsh dark… Read More
2022-10-18 10:30
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This is a queer, Maori-inspired, pirate, biopunk fantasy with worldbuilding so intense that I will be honest, I often was not follo… Read More
2022-10-17 10:30
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In Galaxy: The Prettiest Star, Taylor has a life-threatening secret. She is the Galaxy-Crowned, an alien princess hiding on Earth f… Read More
2022-10-16 10:30
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A compact novella with a haunted house story, strained friendships, and a hungry gho… Read More
2022-10-15 10:30
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I am a scaredy cat and avoid horror most of the year. But when September and October come around, I find myself being pulled toward… Read More
2022-10-13 10:30
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I love silly, fluffy sapphic graphic novels. I also seek out queer witchy books to read in October. So I thought this book was goin… Read More
2022-10-12 10:30
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Above All Things is the second part of Roslyn Sinclair’s Carlyle series. Vivian and Jules have committed to each other, and n… Read More
2022-10-11 10:45
October is a big book release month, and today is no different! Most of these were features in the monthly new releases (these are the publishers’ descriptions), but I’m alwa… Read More
2022-10-11 10:30
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A fast-paced, truly unputdownable fantasy novel, Sunyi Dean’s The Book Eaters is the kind of expansive adventure no… Read More
2022-10-10 10:30
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Considering it’s commonly referred to as part of the Sapphic Trifecta of fantasy and sapphic fantasy is, in my professional o… Read More
2022-10-09 18:31
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is the author of two of my favourite books: Bodymap, a collection of poetry; and Care Work, a coll… Read More
2022-10-08 10:30
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Melanie Gillman is one of my favourite artists. I even support them on Patreon–which I highly recommend, because you get to r… Read More
2022-10-06 10:30
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Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress is a novel that follows four artists as they embark first on art school before conquerin… Read More
2022-10-04 10:45
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As I was reading A Scatter of Light, I saw a tweet from Malinda Lo discussing how hard she’s finding summarizing this book in… Read More
2022-10-03 13:00
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If you’re looking for a book equivalent of watching Hocus Pocus or Halloweentown–but as a bisexual romance novel–… Read More
2022-10-03 10:35
Would you believe that more than forty sapphic books come out this month? It’s true! Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to find out which books have queer representation, or… Read More
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