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• A Fabulously Smart Summer Read: The Fake by Zoe Whittall

  

  Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link A short novel with a lot of heart and an unputdownable plot, Zoe Whittall's The Fake (2023 Ballantine Books... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Sapphic eBooks On Sale Today for Under $5!

  

  Fiction Under The Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta for $1.99 Roses in the Mouth of a Lion by Bushra Rehman for $3.99 The Balance Tips by Joy Huang-Iris for... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Sapphic YA Romance in a Haunted House: The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn...

  

  Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh is a YA supernatural horror novel. Its protagonist, Dare, is... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• 9 Essential Books for Baby Gays

  

  I have personally identified as bi since I was about 22, and 5 years on, I've now started thinking about what might have been different if I'd realised that... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Lesbian Poetry: Because It Didn’t End with Sappho

  

  I've been researching the history of lesbian literature (as you do), and one of the things that I've learned is that lesbian poetry has been at the foundation o... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• The 10 Most Highly Anticipated Sapphic Books Out in the Rest of 2023

  

  This was such a difficult list to put together, because it is definitely not meant to be a list of all the good sapphic books coming out from July to December o... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Messy Sapphics, F/F Friends to Lovers Romances, Book Celebrating Queer Bars,...

  

  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,... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• New Sapphic Releases: Bi and Lesbian Books Out June 20, 2023!

  

  I'm not sure why publishers packed so many exciting queer releases into the third week of June, but here we are! There are so many titles out today on my... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• The Best Sapphic Books of 2023 (So Far)

  

  The last year or two has brought such an abundance of sapphic books, especially in terms of traditionally published titles. Sapphic books have finally caught... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• 12 Sapphic Roller Derby Books for When You Miss the Track

  

  It seems ridiculous to try to explain why roller derby appeals to queer women. A woman-centric sport? People with different body types playing a hardcore sport... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Queer Book Blogs You Need to Read

  

  I follow an absolutely ridiculous amount of blogs through an RSS feed reader in order to put together weekly link round ups. (Over 200, not counting the... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• A Queer, Angry Take on Doctor Who: The Infinite Miles by Hannah Fergesen

  

  This was such a let down. I used to be a big fan of Doctor Who (see my review of Queers Dig Time Lords) and am currently trying to catch up on the newest... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Do Queer Books Still Need a Happy Ending?

  

  Hanging up in my living room is a canvas print of the cover of Satan Was a Lesbian by Fred Haley, and let me tell you, the illustration is exactly as over the... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Bringing the Lesbian Vampire Home: Carmen Maria Machado’s Reclamation of CARMILLA

  

  is a lesbian vampire story that predates by decades. It's a story I've come back to over and over, in the same conflicted way that I am drawn to lesbian pulp.... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• 58 Must-Read Sapphic Books by Trans and Nonbinary Authors

  

  In March, I put together a list of sapphic books by trans and nonbinary authors for the Trans Rights Readathon, but we don't need a readathon to read trans... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• 12 of the Best New Sapphic Books Out June 13, 2023

  

  Pride month continues to deliver excellent new queer books, including a queer time travelling book perfect for fans of The Night Circus, a sapphic middle grade... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Lesbrary Links: Defeating Book Bans, Queer-Owned Bookstores, Sapphic Hidden Gems...

  

  I follow hundreds of queer book blogs to keep up with the latest sapphic book news and reviews, and let me tell you, it gets out of control during Pride month.... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Get Queer Book Recs in Your Inbox Twice a Week with Our Queerest Shelves!

  

  I've been running the Lesbrary for over a decade, but did you know book blogging is also, separately, my full time job? It's (somehow) true! My day job is... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• 8 of the Best Sapphic Shakespeare Retellings

  

  Queering Shakespeare is a popular academic subject-and why not? Shakespeare was bisexual himself, and his plays are packed full of cross-dressing and other quee... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Reading Black Joy: 27 F/F Romances by Black Authors

  

  Many Black authors have spoken about the difficulties of being pigeon-holed by the publishing industry into writing only about Black trauma. While learning abou... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2023 BOOKS, LGBTQ