Check out my master list of more than 100 bi and lesbian books that I (Danika) have read and loved! I have recently updated with some of my recent reads, including an awesome manga and a memorable YA book. They all have links to my full review.
You can also check out the Lesbrary Amazon Page, which has the same recommendations, but you can browse by cover, and each book has a tweet-length recommendation.
If you’re a close reader of the Lesbrary, you might have noticed a lack of Link Round Ups in the past few months. That’s a result of me being overwhelmed by practicum (I survived! I’m a teacher now!), but I’m also using it as an opportunity to experiment a little bit. I’ve still been compiling interesting links, but I’ve shared most of them on tumblr and twitter. For this post, I’ve saved up what I think are the most useful links I’ve come across in the last few months.
Some interesting comics content to check out:
The end of the year (and decade!) brought with it a deluge of lists. Here are some of my favourites:
And as for the present–or near-past–here are some lists of new releases since the last round up:
The recent releases I’m excited about:
The rest of the links had to do with 2020 new releases, so they got their own post here!
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This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet!
Book Riot posted GENTLEMAN JACK Swag for Fans of Queer Trailblazer Anne Lister.
LGBTQ Reads posted Inside an Anthology: The (Other) F Word ed. by Angie Manfredi.
Logo posted Fall Preview 2019: 10 New Books to Queer Up Your Library.
Nicole Dennis-Benn was interviewed about her new novel Patsy at The Globe and Mail.
Carolina De Robertis was interviewed about her novel Cantoras at NPR.
Gabby Rivera was interviewed about her novel Juliet Takes a Breath at NPR.
“[Lesbian] Author Julia Watts Disinvited from Teen Lit Festival” was posted at Publishers Weekly.
“Tracking Our Way Through Time,” about researching lesbian history, was posted at Ms. Magazine.
“Gideon the Ninth is about lesbian necromancers in space. Obviously, it’s perfect.” was posted at Vox.
Hazel’s Theory of Evolution by Lisa Jenn Bigelow was reviewed at Green Tea & Paperbacks.
In at the Deep End by Katie Davies was reviewed at Lambda Literary.
Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis was reviewed at the Advocate.
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib was reviewed at Lamba Literary.
Two Wings to Fly Away by Penny Mickelbury was reviewed at Lambda Literary.
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir was reviewed at the Young Folks.
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera was reviewed at Yahoo.
Orphan Black: The Next Chapter by Serial Box was reviewed at Autostraddle and Bella Books Blog.
The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante was reviewed at Rich in Color.
This post, and all posts at the Lesbrary, have the covers linked to their Amazon pages. If you click through and buy something, I might get a small referral fee. For even more links, check out the Lesbrary’s twitter! We’re also on Facebook, Goodreads, Youtube and Tumblr.
Thank you to the Lesbrary’s Patreon supporters! Special thanks to Sarah Neilson, Shelly Farrell, Martha Hansen, Daniela Gonzalez De Anda, Amy Hanson, Bee Oder, Hannah Dent, Ellen Zemlin, and Casey Stepaniuk.
This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet!
Advocate posted 30 Queer-Friendly Books for Young Adults, Kids, and Families.
Electric Lit posted 7 Debut Collections That Continue the Lineage of Queer Poetry.
Lambda Literary posted New in September: Tegan & Sara, Akwaeke Emezi, and Benjamin Moser.
LGBTQ Reads posted New Releases: September 2019.
Logo posted Xena Is Even Gayer in Vita Ayala’s Latest Comic Book Reboot.
Okazu posted Queerness in Sailor Moon: Is It Progressive or is it Just Progress?
Melanie Gillman wrote about their process of researching queer and trans history for Stage Dreams at the Lerner Blog.
“What to Know About Virginia Woolf’s Love Affair With Vita Sackville-West” was posted at Time.
“Five Years of Flame Con” was posted at School Library Journal.
“Read it and weep: LGBTQ kids deserve queer-friendly books” was posted at the Berkeley Beacon.
Vira Letra, a lesbian book publisher in Brazil, was written about at Pioneers Post.
Gnarled Hollow by Charlotte Greene was reviewed at C-Spot Reviews.
The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History by Marc Stein was reviewed at Lambda Literary.
This post, and all posts at the Lesbrary, have the covers linked to their Amazon pages. If you click through and buy something, I might get a small referral fee. For even more links, check out the Lesbrary’s twitter! We’re also on Facebook, Goodreads, Youtube and Tumblr.
Thank you to the Lesbrary’s Patreon supporters! Special thanks to Sarah Neilson, Shelly Farrell, Martha Hansen, Daniela Gonzalez De Anda, Amy Hanson, Bee Oder, Hannah Dent, Ellen Zemlin, and Casey Stepaniuk.
This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet!
Autostraddle posted “Olivia” Is One of the Best Lesbian Films of All Time and Now You Can Finally See It and 30 New Books of Queer and Feminist Interest to Get Excited About This Fall.
Bustle posted These 4 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Authors Are Writing The Women-Loving-Women Novels They Always Wanted To Read and I’m So Jealous You Get To Read Heather Rose Jones’s The Alpennia Series For The First Time.
Logo posted 11 Queer Books You Need to Read Before Summer Ends.
Queer Book Corner posted Queer YA: 2019 March-April Recap and Queer YA: 2019 May Recap.
Women and Words updated their New Releases & Coming Up page.
“Why are there so many new books about time-travelling lesbians?” was posted at the Guardian.
“The word is out: Val McDermid selects Britain’s 10 most outstanding LGBTQ writers” was posted at the Guardian.
“Pulp Fiction Helped Define American Lesbianism” was posted at JSTOR.
“New Illinois Law Requires LGBT History To Be Taught In Schools” was posted at Townhall.
“How LGBTQ books and authors are being censored in middle schools” was posted at Entertainment Weekly.
“Literature’s Wildest Lesbian Love Story Is Coming to the Big Screen” was posted at The Stranger.
Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing by Elissa Altman was reviewed at Lambda Literary.
Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple 1890-1918 edited by Lizzie Ehrenhalt and Tilly Laskey was reviewed at Washington Blade.
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins was reviewed at Black Lesbian Literary Collective.
Delayed Rays of a Star by Amanda Lee Koe was reviewed at Lambda Literary.
This post, and all posts at the Lesbrary, have the covers linked to their Amazon pages. If you click through and buy something, I might get a small referral fee. For even more links, check out the Lesbrary’s twitter! We’re also on Facebook, Goodreads, Youtube and Tumblr.
Thank you to the Lesbrary’s Patreon supporters! Special thanks to Sarah Neilson, Shelly Farrell, Martha Hansen, Daniela Gonzalez De Anda, Amy Hanson, Bee Oder, Hannah Dent, Ellen Zemlin, and Casey Stepaniuk.
This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet!
Autostraddle posted 8 Dark Queer Graphic Novels to Read while Waiting for My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Vol 2.
Book Riot posted 10 More YA Books Starring Queer Girls to Look for in 2019 and 50 Must-Read Books Recommended by Roxane Gay.
LGBTQ Reads posted New Releases: August 2019.
Los Angeles Review of Books posted Marilyn Hacker: Rebel Traditionalist.
Publishing Triangle Announces Best LGBTQ Books of 2018 at 31st Annual Triangle Awards Ceremony.
Queer Book Corner posted Queer Adult Fiction: 2019 January-June and Queer YA: 2019 January-February Recap.
Kristen Arnett was interviewed about her book Mostly Dead Things at Crosscut.
Niamh Murphy posted It’s the August I♡LesFic.com Giveaway!
“‘Deep lez’ and ‘lexis orgasmus’: Lesbian Lexicon puts queer culture into words” was posted at Datebook.
“Catherine Hardwicke to Direct Patriarchy-Fighting Lesbian Viking Movie ‘Heathen’” was posted at Indie Wire.
“How I Worked With My Child’s School District to Add LGBTQ+ Books to the Library” was posted at Pop Sugar.
“QUILTBAG+ SFF Anthologies: A Comprehensive List” was posted at Bogi Reads the World.
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett was reviewed at Lambda Literary.
Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju was reviewed by Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian.
We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib was reviewed by Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian.
Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan was reviewed at Lambda Literary.
This post, and all posts at the Lesbrary, have the covers linked to their Amazon pages. If you click through and buy something, I might get a small referral fee. For even more links, check out the Lesbrary’s twitter! We’re also on Facebook, Goodreads, Youtube and Tumblr.
Thank you to the Lesbrary’s Patreon supporters! Special thanks to Sarah Neilson, Shelly Farrell, Martha Hansen, Daniela Gonzalez De Anda, Amy Hanson, Bee Oder, Hannah Dent, Ellen Zemlin, and Casey Stepaniuk.
This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet!
The Golden Crown Literary Society Award winners were announced!
LGBTQ Reads posted TBRainbow Alert: Middle Grade.
Women and Words updated their New Releases and Coming Up page.
“Lambda Archives Stores San Diego’s LGBTQ History” was posted at kbps.
“I Could Spend All Day Looking at the Covers of These LGBTQ Publications” was posted at JSTOR Daily.
“Getting Queer Comics Into Libraries” was posted at The MNT.
“My book Tell it to the Bees was made into a film – but they changed the ending for a straight audience” was posted at The Conversation.
Work!: A Queer History of Modeling by Elspeth H. Brown was reviewed at Lambda Literary.
La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono was reviewed at Did You Ever Stop to Think.
Sugar Land by Tammy Lynne Stoner was reviewed at Lambda Literary.
Going Off Script by Jen Wilde was reviewed at Green Tea & Paperbacks.
This post, and all posts at the Lesbrary, have the covers linked to their Amazon pages. If you click through and buy something, I might get a small referral fee. For even more links, check out the Lesbrary’s twitter! We’re also on Facebook, Goodreads, Youtube and Tumblr.
Thank you to the Lesbrary’s Patreon supporters! Special thanks to Sarah Neilson, Shelly Farrell, Martha Hansen, Daniela Gonzalez De Anda, Amy Hanson, Bee Oder, Hannah Dent, Ellen Zemlin, Hana Chappell, and Casey Stepaniuk.
This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet!
Autostraddle posted 8 YA Books Featuring Characters who Are Happily Lesbian but Have Other Drama.
Book Riot posted
Cece (Problems of a Book Nerd) posted How to Find Out About Queer Books (video).
Electric Lit posted 10 Exuberantly Queer Graphic Novels.
“12 Books By (And About) Lesbians And Bisexual Women To Read This Pride Month” was posted at Buzzfeed.
Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories edited by Michael Earp was reviewed at The Nerd Daily.
Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow was discussed at Autostraddle.
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell was reviewed at Rich in Color.
100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism by Chavisa Woods was reviewed at Lambda Literary.
This post, and all posts at the Lesbrary, have the covers linked to their Amazon pages. If you click through and buy something, I might get a small referral fee. For even more links, check out the Lesbrary’s twitter! We’re also on Facebook, Goodreads, Youtube and Tumblr.
Thank you to the Lesbrary’s Patreon supporters! Special thanks to Sarah Neilson, Shelly Farrell, Martha Hansen, Daniela Gonzalez De Anda, Amy Hanson, Bee Oder, Hannah Dent, Ellen Zemlin, Hana Chappell, and Casey Stepaniuk.
I’m trying something new this video: sharing some of my favourite links from this month’s link roundups What do you think? Should this be a regular feature, or is it more suited to just text?
From these two link round ups: June 1-10 and June 11-26.
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This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet!
Autostraddle posted
Lambda Literary posted New Books in June for Your Pride Month Reading List.
LGBTQ@NYPL posted
LGBTQ Reads posted
Pride posted 21 Inspiring LGBTQ-Themed Children’s Books.
Women and Words updated their Hot off the Press and Coming Attractions.
Dahlia Adler posted “14 YA Authors on the Queer Books That Changed Their Lives” at Barnes & Noble.
Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things, was interviewed at Bustle.
Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun and Patsy, was interviewed at Nylon.
Malinda Lo was interviewed about her novel Ash by Nina LaCour at Bustle.
Niamh Murphy posted 8 Great Ways to Get Free And Discounted Lesbian eBooks Sent to You!
Barbara Smith wrote “Why I Left the Mainstream Queer Rights Movement” at the New York Times.
Chain Reactions by Lynn Ames was reviewed at Lambda Literary.
A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernández was reviewed at The Black Lesbian Literary Collective.
Healing/Heeling by Sassafras Lowrey was reviewed at Gertrude Press.
Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi was reviewed at Rich in Color.
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell was reviewed at Okazu.
Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw was reviewed at Okazu.
Pride month brought a deluge of queer book content from the rest of the internet, so I thought I’d collect it all here:
This post, and all posts at the Lesbrary, have the covers linked to their Amazon pages. If you click through and buy something, I might get a small referral fee. For even more links, check out the Lesbrary’s twitter! We’re also on Facebook, Goodreads, Youtube and Tumblr.
Thank you to the Lesbrary’s Patreon supporters! Special thanks to Sarah Neilson, Shelly Farrell, Martha Hansen, Daniela Gonzalez De Anda, Amy Hanson, Bee Oder, Hannah Dent, Ellen Zemlin, Hana Chappell, and Casey Stepaniuk.