Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Last month, I raved about She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat by Sakaomi Yuzaki. It was a pretty solid guess that I would also enjoy Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon by Shio Usui, as they’re both slice-of-life manga about adult women who fall in loveRead More
A Sapphic Sherlock Series in Space: The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles is Malka Older’s second novella in the Mossa and Pleiti series, set in the far future, when the last of humanity is in a thriving colony on Jupiter amidst an expanding series of platforms and rails. Like the theRead More
Love at First Selkie: The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! On a recent trip to Portland, my partner and I picked up The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag (she/her) from Powell’s City of Books. This gorgeous graphic novel follows Morgan Kwon, a 15-year-old young woman living with her mom and younger brother on WilneffRead More
An Emotional Demon Hunter Romance: The Fall That Saved Us by Tamara Jerée
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Tamara Jerée’s The Fall That Saved Us centers around Cassiel, a former demon hunter who has left her abusive family behind in favor of a quiet life in a little bookshop she now runs. When a succubus named Avitue shows up one day, the two fallRead More
The Magic of Community: Brooms by Jasmine Walls and Teo DuVall
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Brooms is a YA graphic novel created by Jasmine Walls (writer) and Teo DuVall (illustrator) and published in 2023 by Levine Querido. It is set in an alternate 1930s Mississippi where magic flows all around, but is heavily restricted. Only certain people are allowed toRead More
Credit Card Debt, Climate Change, and Magical Girls: A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I am sure you are all familiar with magical girl stories like Sailor Moon, but have you ever heard of a magical girl with credit card debt? In Park Seolyeon’s A Magical Girl Retires (translated by Anton Hur), our unnamed protagonist is 29, has lost herRead More
A Belated Bi Awakening: Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Imogen Scott has endless experience as a straight queer ally. Her friends are pan and bi, her sister is out, and she never misses a Pride Alliance meeting. While visiting her best friend Lili at college, who has her own little queer community, ImogenRead More
Grumpy/Sunshine Behind the Bar: In Walked Trouble by Dana Hawkins
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! In Walked Trouble, Dana Hawkins’s newest novel, takes us away from the coffee shop of Not in the Plan and into Nueve’s, a Puerto Rican bar and restaurant that should totally exist. (Has anyone else noticed just how many great concepts for restaurants, bars, coffee shops,Read More
Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words by Boel Westin, translated by Silvester Mazzarella
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! A queer, iconoclast, anti-fascist, anti-war comic artist, and joyfully adventurous woman, the Tove Jansson brought to life by Boel Westin’s considered pen is a complicated, innovative creative in resolute pursuit of independence—in both her art and romances. Meticulously researched but rarely dry, this isRead More
Grief in Utopia: The Seep by Chana Porter
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! This review contains spoilers. The Seep might be one of the most refreshing takes on alien invasion I’ve ever read. This novel follows Trina FastHorse Goldberg-Oneka, a middle-aged trans woman, as she and her wife Deeba, along with almost everyone else in the world, areRead More
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