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Resisting from the Margins in The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe et al.

February 26, 2025 by Emory Rose

As someone who enjoyed Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer album and accompanying film, I was thrilled to finally read The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, an anthology of five stories cowritten by Janelle Monáe with Danny Lore, Yohanca Delgado, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Sheree Renée Thomas, and Eve L. Ewing. This book returns to the dystopian worldRead More

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

December 9, 2024 by Theo

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 heated blanket, and a good Christmassy story. Below are a few books that I am hoping to devour this month—feelRead More

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Making The Future Gay: The Five Things I Checked out From the Queer Liberation Library

March 11, 2024 by Theo

Recently, a nonprofit in Massachusetts put out an exclusively queer book collection on Libby called the Queer Liberation Library (also known as QLL). Their mission is simple: by providing queer people with diversity-focused literature and resources, QLL is building a future that is undeniably queer. This collection of e-materials is available to anyone with an email address,Read More

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Creating Utopia in Love After the End edited by Joshua Whitehead

January 24, 2024 by Emory Rose

“Tomorrow will be kinder,” I whisper as I am swept into the rushing river of my dreams.  —”The Ark of the Turtle’s Back” by jaye simpson  Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, edited by Joshua Whitehead, is a follow up to the anthology Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time. TheseRead More

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10 Sapphic YA Horror Books to Read In October

October 17, 2023 by Laurel

With fall finally here, you might be looking for some spooky books to read in October and to get you in the perfect eerie mood. Featuring ghosts, aliens, demons, and zombies, these books are a great way to get in touch with your sinister side and prepare yourself for the best night of the year:Read More

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Til reviews The Gathering Dark edited by Tori Bovalino

February 23, 2023 by Lesbrarians

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link The Gathering Dark is a collection of folk horror short stories. I went into this book expecting the folk horror short stories. The queerness of those stories came as a delightful surprise. I will own outright that whether or not this counts as a sapphic read is debatable.  To me,Read More

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Susan reviews Alone in Space by Tillie Walden

February 15, 2023 by Danika Ellis

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Alone in Space is a collection of short comics and standalone pieces by Tillie Walden. Some of the pieces have already been released as graphic novels, so they might be familiar to you already. “The End of Summer” A royal family and their servants lock themselves away toRead More

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Maggie reviews Queer Little Nightmares edited by David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli 

November 21, 2022 by Lesbrarians

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Queer Little Nightmares, an anthology edited by David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli is a fun and sometimes terrifying collection of queer horror writing. The Lesbrary was provided with a review copy, and I was more than happy to spend time with this collection. Queer Little Nightmares let writers experiment withRead More

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Danika reviews Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales edited by Rebecca Podos and Ashley Herring Blake

December 10, 2021 by Danika Ellis

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link What I love about this collection is that nowhere on it does it say it’s a specifically LGBTQ anthology, but if you read sapphic YA, you’ll recognize those two editors and know you’re in for a treat. This is a collection of stories from fantastic YA authors (RebeccaRead More

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Sash H reviews Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett

March 22, 2021 by Danika Ellis

Science fiction shows us worlds of great technological advances and sweeping social changes. It shows us worlds similar to ours where a few fundamentals have changed, or lands beyond the stars vastly different to our own. But it does not always show us what it is like to be trans or queer in those worlds.Read More

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The Lesbrary is a sapphic book blog that started in 2010. It's run by Danika Ellis, and we have about a dozen reviewers from around the world recommending sapphic books in every genre. Check out the top navigation bar for more about the Lesbrary as well as options to browse by genre, age category, rating, and more.

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