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• A Quiet, Slice of Life Sapphic Graphic Novel: Firebird by Sunmi Review

  

  Firebird by Sunmi is a two-color graphic novel that tells the story of Caroline and Kim, two girls who meet in tutoring and become friends... and then fall for... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Sapphic Books To Light Your Way This Winter

  

  Where I live, we're in one of the darkest days of winter, with plenty of reason for dread. So this holiday season, I'm bringing out a list of book recs that... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• In Defense of Horny Bisexual Characters: How to Become the Dark Lord and Die...

  

  I picked this book up for the premise: it's pitched as Groundhog Day meets Deadpool and is about a chosen one character who has been brought to a fantasy world... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Secrets & Sorcery & Sapphics: A Review of The No-Girlfriend Rule by Christen...

  

  Dungeons Dragons (or in the case of Christen Randall's The No-Girlfriend Rule, Secrets Sorcery), has been one of my favorite hobbies since I started... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Our Favorite Sapphic Books We Read in 2024

  Last week, we shared our favorite sapphic books of 2024: the best new sapphic books that Lesbrary reviewers read this year. Of course, it's not just new release... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Small-Town Ghosts: We Don’t Swim Here by Vincent Tirado Review

  

  Tirado's second young adult horror novel is an alternating POV story following two main characters: cousins, Anais and Bronwyn. Anais has always lived in the... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• A Polarizing, Experimental Horror Book: We Used To Live Here by Marcus Kliewer...

  

  Despite us being firmly being into December, I still have a few horror books on my to-read list that I am working through, and We Used to Live Here by Marcus... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Classic Sapphic YA Throwback: Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters Review

  

  Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters (she/her) is one of the first sapphic books I ever read. While I can't remember exactly when I picked it up, my... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• A Palestinian Family’s Story Shows History Repeats: The Skin and Its Girl by...

  

  Far from the Rummani's ancestral home of Palestine, Betty Rummani is born a striking, permanent shade of cobalt blue. That same day, the Rummanis'... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• The Best Sapphic Books of 2024

  December is a great time to look back at our favorite reads of the year, but it's also always a challenge. I read about 50 sapphic books this year, so I had a... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• A Sciencey Sapphic Read: Rani Choudhury Must Die by Adiba Jaigirdar

  

  Rani Choudhury Must Die by Adiba Jaigirdar is a book I've been looking forward to. I really enjoyed Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating, as well as The... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• A Haunting Gothic About Family in (Climate) Crisis: Private Rites by Julia...

  

  As an avid reader of all of Julia Armfield's fiction, I was eager to pick up her newest novel. From the author of Our Wives Under the Sea (2022), Private... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Baby’s It’s Cold Outside… Let’s Stay In and Read Sapphic Holiday Romances!

  

  As the sun goes down at 4pm and the temperatures plunge down to the lower forties (if I am lucky), I can't help but want to curl up on my couch with my cat, a... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Pacific Rim Meets Crier’s War: Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta

  

  Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta is one of those books that somehow passed me by when it came out in 2021. It follows two teenage girls, Sona and Eris, as they... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Folk Horror and the Troubled Teen Industry: What the Woods Took by Courtney Goul...

  

  In European folk and fairytales, a journey through the woods represents the characters' coming of age-their passage from the pastoral, relative security of... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• A Bittersweet Supernatural Romp: Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk Review

  

  At the close of 2024, I offer up my favorite read of the year: C.L. Polk's Even Though I Knew the End. This novella catapulted me through five acts in the spa... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• A Tough But Necessary Read: Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah...

  

  Content warnings for pretty much everything: violence, gore, racism, incarceration, solitary confinement, self harm, cutting At the time of writing this, it's... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• A Lush Horror Novella Embracing Death and Renewal: Green Fuse Burning by...

  

  " Why did people need to be in nature to process the things that happened to them? Maybe it was because what was thought of as wild did not require a veil-it sa... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• The Unique Venom of Found Family: Sister Snake by Amanda Lee Koe Review

  

  Su and Emerald are sisters with nothing in common: Su lives in Singapore, playing the perfect wife to her conservative politician husband. Emerald is a queer... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• A Sapphic Take on a Classic: Tink and Wendy by Kelly Ann Jacobson Review

  

  Tink and Wendy sets the story of Peter Pan with a small twist that changes everything: instead of bringing the Darling siblings into their world, Peter and... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ