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Lesbrary Links: Sapphic Space Operas, Queer Indie Comics, and Poetry for Trying Times

April 20, 2020 by Danika Ellis

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I follow hundreds of queer book blogs to scout out the best sapphic book news and reviews! Many of them get posted on tumblr and twitter as I discover them, but my favourites get saved for these link compilations. Here are some of the posts I’ve found interesting in the last few weeks.

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi cover   Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy  Fetch by Nicole J. Georges  On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden  Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer

  • Tor.com has been looking back at a decade of writing about queer science fiction and fantasy. They interview more than a dozen queer authors, including Carmen Maria Machado, Nicola Griffith, and Yoon Ha Lee, to look at what’s changed since their column began: Queering SFF: 12 Authors, Critics, and Activists on What’s Changed in the Last Ten Years
  • Continuing on the sci fi theme, Autostraddle recommend 8 Great Space Operas with Queer Women and Non-Binary Characters
  • If you, like me, are drawn toward comics these days, check out Comic Book Resources’s recommendations and history of indie queer comics: For Good LGBTQ Comics Rep, Look to Indies
  • And for a more targeted list to these times, click through to them.’s 20 Queer Comics to Sink Into in Quarantine

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The Craft of Love by E E Ottoman   The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz  The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski  Crier's War by Nina Varela  Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins

  • We all need a little help getting through the day. Maybe Autostraddle’s 9 Poems to Read in These Trying Times will speak to you.
  • Reads Rainbow asked twitter for their favourite queer lady love stories, and compiled the results: Twitter’s Favourite Sapphic Romances
  • And if you like your romance with a social justice flare, check out Book Riot’s 10 Queer Romance Novels About Social Justice to Fall in Love With

All My Mother’s Lovers by Ilana Masad  Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner  You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat  Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis  My Education by Susan Choi

  • It wouldn’t be a Link Round Up without a list of lists. Here’s Oprah Magazine’s 44 LGBTQ Books That’ll Change the Literary Landscape in 2020
  • Publishers Weekly also has a list of all kids’ LGBTQ books coming out this year: 2020 LGBTQ Children’s Books
  • Over on the Book Riot Youtube channel, I recommended 25+ LGBTQ Audiobooks on Audible. Commute or no, audiobooks are a great way to pass the time doing chores, walking the dogs, or staring blankly at the wall… not that I’ve been doing any of that lately.
  • In evergreen twitter drama, someone claimed that there are no f/f books. Of course, we all know that’s ridiculous, but Mols by Moonlight responded by posting just a simple list refuting it, of 101 f/f books she recommends.

Finally, I wanted to acknowledge Phyllis Lyon’s recent death. She was a co-founder of Daughters of Bilitis, the first national lesbian organization in the USA. DOB would go on to publish The Ladder, a lesbian newsletter that ran from 1956-1970 (I have the whole run!) She and her wife were hugely influential in the history of lesbian literature, and in lesbian activism in general. Here is Autostraddle’s obituary for her: Phyllis Lyon, Incomparable Lesbian Civil Rights Activist, Has Died at 95

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.

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