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Lesbrary Reviews

A Fresh Take on Magic Schools: The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

May 23, 2025 by Rachel Friars

In what has quickly become one of my top novels of the year, Emily Tesh crafts a unique fantasy world full of violence, intensity, and intrigue in The Incandescent (Tor 2025).  In Tesh’s newest novel, which has been compared to fiction by Naomi Novik and Emily Danforth, Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood Academy—a schoolRead More

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Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos edited by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley Review

May 22, 2025 by Danika Ellis

Admittedly, I picked this up based on the title alone. This is the same editor team who did Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, and I would imagine that most of the stories included in Be Gay, Do Crime would fit easily into that collection as well. (Most of these stories are about queerRead More

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Timey-Wimey Interdimensional Romance: Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon by Anne Mare Review

May 21, 2025 by Jamie Rose

In the past few years, it seems like multiverses have been all the rage in pop culture. It was natural, then, that it would be only a matter of time before we got one in sapphic romance. In comes Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon (out June 3, 2025), the latest book by Anne Mare,Read More

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Lesbrary Reviews

A Queer Diasporic Matrilineal Epic: Amma by Saraid de Silva Review

May 20, 2025 by Amanda Růžičková

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

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Large Format Photograph as Novel: Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

May 19, 2025 by Danika Ellis

Some of my favourite books can be accurately described as “slow.” In fact, I so enjoy a character-based story that when I hear “nothing happens in this book,” it bumps it up my TBR. So, it was a surprise to me to find myself slogging through Housemates feeling like nothing was happening. If it wasn’tRead More

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Thou Shall Read This Book: The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes Review

May 18, 2025 by Raquel R. Rivera

This month, I was scrolling through my Kindle trying to figure out which book I should review when I came across The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes (they/them). In the past, I had overlooked it because I had the preconceived notion that it might be too “on the nose” or stereotypical.  Let me beRead More

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Falling in Love in a Historic Theater: If We Were a Movie by Zakiya N. Jamal Review

May 16, 2025 by Vic

When I read YA, particularly contemporary YA and most especially sapphic contemporary YA, I always approach it from the perspective of my sixteen-year-old self. If this book had existed when I was a teenager, what would I have thought of it? Zakiya N. Jamal’s If We Were a Movie would have caught my attention right from the Hannah MontanaRead More

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Love in the Times of Seaside Horror: Providence Girls by Morgan Dante Review

May 14, 2025 by Sritama Sen

In the past couple of years, I have discovered some real gems of independent and self-published sapphic literature. Last May, I read Morgan Dante’s stunning Providence Girls, which won Best Historical Fiction at the 2023 Indie Ink awards. The author pitches it as “a seaside sapphic cosmic horror romance” in the vein of The Handmaiden and The Shape ofRead More

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A Literary Love Story of the Moment: Liquid by Mariam Rahmani Review

May 13, 2025 by Anna N.

This novel has been a hard one to write a review for. Mostly because of the upheavals happening, and my subsequent desire to try and locate the text as best as I can in the current moment. Because, reader, it truly is a novel for the times, of the times. So here is the earliestRead More

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Lesbrary Reviews

Cozy Meets Eldritch Horror in Direct Descendant by Tanya Huff

May 12, 2025 by Susanne Salehi

A force to be reckoned with, Tanya Huff has been writing books for nearly forty years. I grew up among her worlds, inhaling words and dreaming of places that would welcome me one day. I still have tattered copies of No Quarter (1996) and Summon the Keeper (1998) on my bookshelves. So, it’s not much of a surprise thatRead 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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