Racquel Marie’s If We Survive This is in some ways a familiar story. Set in an alternate present where rabies has mutated into what is ultimately a zombie-fying disease, society has collapsed into an apocalyptic wasteland. Following the disappearance of their father, Flora and her brother, Cain, decide to follow him up to the cabin they vacationedRead More
An Exploration of Queer Muslim Diasporic Identity: The Last One by Fatima Daas
I snagged Fatima Daas’s The Last One because someone—I forget both where and who—mentioned it had won France’s Prix de Flore. Look, I’ll admit it, I’m a magpie for any book that makes the French literary crowd uncomfortable enough to shower it with accolades. What blindsided me? Three hours hunched over the book in my café’s corner,Read More
A Messy Love Story in Verse: Couplets by Maggie Millner
Maggie Millner’s Couplets is a novel-in-verse that explores the fierce intensity of falling in love and how it affects one’s expression, especially when the initial excitement begins to falter and fail. This debut reads like a challenge to form itself: can desire, betrayal, and queer longing be woven into the rigid dance of couplets without dulling theirRead More
A Queer Diasporic Matrilineal Epic: Amma by Saraid de Silva Review
Some silences are so profound that they become part of the landscape, not just heard but inhabited. Amma knows that terrain—how silence gets passed down not just through forgetting but through a caring that has been cornered. In this debut novel from Saraid de Silva, the unspoken doesn’t just haunt the margins of the characters’Read More
A Story About Suicide and Sisterhood: We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin
Ever since I read Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin, I knew I wanted to read more of her work. Austin’s writing style is the perfect blend of witty, engaging, and poignant, and I love that each of her novels features queer women as main characters. Picking up her third novel, We Can Be Rats, was a no-brainer.Read More
A TBR Shame Spiral in Six Titles
As a librarian, my TBR (to-be-read) shelf is never ending. Every time I think I am going to crack down on my whole bookshelf of unread books, something amazing comes through the returns chute, or my VERY well-meaning coworkers share something that they think I will love (most times they are right on the money)Read More
Hiding and Healing: Cover Story by Celia Laskey
What’s the biggest lie you’ve told about yourself? It’s 2005, and Ali is a publicist for Hollywood’s biggest stars. Part of her job entails keeping gay celebrities in the closet—which is pretty ironic, since she’s a lesbian. When Ali is assigned a new gay client, Cara Bisset, who’s breaking onto the scene with a (hetero)Read More
Queer Cozy Fantasy with Magical Animal Shenanigans: The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I’m animal lover who’s always looking for more cozy queer fantasy, so this book seemed tailor made for me. It follows Aila, a phoenix keeper at a magical zoo who is trying to restart their phoenix breeding program to help bring the phoenixes backRead More
Love, Friendship, and Hair Care: Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! In Wash Day Diaries, readers follow a group of four young Black women from the Bronx, getting a glimpse of their daily lives through their hair care routine and wash day experiences. Presented as five interconnected short story comics, we get to meet Kim, whoRead More
Sophomore Sapphic Novel Doesn’t Disappoint: Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin (she/her) is one of my new favorite books. Within the first few pages, Austin personified a tampon box, lamented the indignity of celebrating baby genitals (read: gender reveals), and made the astute, albeit morbid, observation that one of theRead More
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