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• The Perfect Queer Gothic to Read on Halloween: My Darling Dreadful Thing by...

  

  I've been trying to spend the fall reading Gothic fiction, and as Halloween approaches, Johanna van Veen's queer Gothic horror novel, My Darling Dreadful... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Escaping Comphet Is In the Cards: The Lovers by Rebekah Faubion

  

  When an advertisement for Rebekah Faubion's The Lovers, a second chance romance about a tarot reader finding love again, came across my Instagram feed, I... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Queer Small Town Livin’: Like Other Girls by Britta Lundin

  

  Mara loves basketball-which is a problem, because she's currently not allowed to play. After getting in a fight during a game, her coach kicks her off the... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Beyond the Surface: I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

  

  There's only one thing standing in Chloe Green's way of winning valedictorian: the town's favorite and Chloe's rival, Shara Wheeler. A month before graduation,... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• 5 Sapphic Vampire Books That Are Perfect for Spooky Season!

  

  One thing that you need to know about me is that I love vampires! Whether it's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight, Interview with the Vampire, or What We Do in... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• If Shirley Jackson Wrote Severance: Last to Leave the Room by Caitlin Starling

  

  The first thing you'll notice when reading the blurbs for Last to Leave the Room is that every reader seems to think it's a different genre. Isaac Fellman says... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Blood, Sex, and Poetry: An Education in Malice by S. T. Gibson

  

  "She kissed me with a martyr's agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on." I've been eagerly anticipating this book since it wa... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Must-Read Poetry Collections by Queer Women

  

  It can be easy to feel overwhelmed during trying times, and to feel like you have less time/energy to sit down with a book and really immerse yourself in plot o... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Grief and the Gay Supernatural Alliance: Jasmine is Haunted by Mark Oshiro

  

  Jasmine Garza is tired of moving, she's tired of switching schools, and she's tired of her Mami not believing her. Ever since her father died, she's been... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• A Chilling Summer Mystery: Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson

  

  This wasn't a book I planned to read in just two sittings. However, after continuing to tell myself "I'll take a break after this chapter" and then not taking... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Dark Academia Ft. Sapphic Longing: In the Roses of Pieria by Anna Burke

  

  Before we embark on our journey, a disclaimer: Anna Burke is a former professor and a friend, which is why I hesitated to write about In the Roses of Pieria.... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Even Vampires Hate High School: The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling

  

  I've had The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling on my bookshelf for a couple of years-a victim of the neverending TBR list. I would say that any vampire love... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• This Queer Horror Book Will Haunt You: Model Home by Rivers Solomon

  

  This was my first Rivers Solomon book, and from the first page, I understood why I'd heard such good things about them. Here are the opening lines: "Maybe my... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Queer Friendship and Active Shooter Drills: Fight + Flight by Jules Machias

  

  Trigger warnings: anxiety, panic attacks, bullying, grief, gun violence in schools Fight + Flight has two main characters, Avery and Sarah, who take turns... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Finding a New Favorite YA Contemporary Author: Ophelia After All and You Don’t...

  

  Recently, I got to read Racquel Marie's debut and sophomore releases: Ophelia After All and You Don't Have a Shot. While the two books had different focuses,... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• 10 Sapphic Books to Celebrate Latine Heritage Month & the Spooky Season

  September 15th to October 15th is Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month. It happens to overlap perfectly with the spooky season. What better way to celebrate both... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Sapphic Romance and Found Family in a Magical Cafe: Legends & Lattes by Travis...

  

  This was so cosy and heartwarming to read. I've been trying to get into the fantasy genre, and for those of us who want to ease into the genre slowly and gently... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• A Small-Town Haunting: The Dark We Know by Wen-yi Lee

  

  Wen-yi Lee's The Dark We Know follows Isadora Chang, an art student who left her small hometown after the deaths of two of her best friends. Two years later,... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• A Hardboiled Lesbian Detective Comic: Deprog by Tina Horn, Lisa Sterle, Gab...

  

  If a gritty noir graphic novel with a "hardboiled hard drinking leather loving dyke detective" sounds up your alley, pick Deprog up-though you might want to giv... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• A Succubus, a Fallen Angel, and a Forbidden Romance: The Fall That Saved Us by...

  

  While I am usually pretty ambivalent about book covers, every once and a while a book will come along with such a beautiful cover that I can't help but add it t... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ