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Articles

Lesbrary Amazon Storefront

July 5, 2019 by Danika Ellis

The Lesbrary now has an Amazon storefront! I’m going through my Recommendation Master List and adding them all into the storefront, so if you like to browse by cover, you can check out all my favourites there! If you hover over each cover, you’ll see about a sentence of why I recommend each book, and aRead More

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Mary Springer reviews Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeannette Winterspoon

July 2, 2019 by Danika Ellis

Trigger warnings for mentions of homophobia and abuse The relationship between sapphic women and Christianity is a complicated and sometimes tragic and violent one. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a semi-autobiographical story based around the author’s life raised by an evangelists in an English Pentecostal community while discovering her attraction to women. JeanetteRead More

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Lesbrary Recommendation Master List

June 30, 2019 by Danika Ellis

I keep a list of all my favourite sapphic books I’ve read over the years, and I’ve just updated it! Check it out!

Lesbrary Links

The Sapphic Book News Report

June 28, 2019 by Danika Ellis

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. Support the Lesbrary and this channel on Patreon toRead More

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Link Round Up: June 11 – 26

June 27, 2019 by Danika Ellis

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 Precious and Adored: Reading Victorian Love Letters, Writing Queer History 15 New LGBT Books to Make Your Summer HotRead More

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Megan G reviews Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

June 20, 2019 by Danika Ellis

Each year, the Demon King is presented with eight young women of the lowest caste — the Paper caste — who will serve as his concubines for a year. While some girls dream of being selected, it was never in Lei’s plans. Her family has already suffered enough at the hands of the Demon King.Read More

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Jen Wilde’s Books are the Feel-Good Sapphic YA You’ve Been Searching For

June 19, 2019 by Danika Ellis

Did you know I (Danika) have a booktube channel? Along with the Lesbrary, the Bi & Lesbian Literature tumblr, and Book Riot, I talk about books there, too! Apparently I can’t say enough about them. Most of my content is about queer women books, and I even have a playlist of just my sapphic bookRead More

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Mars reviews Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi 

June 19, 2019 by Danika Ellis

Happy Pride Month, Lesbrarians! I am swooping in from the ether to volunteer this review of Aminah Mae Safi’s much anticipated Tell Me How You Really Feel on this most auspicious month. It’s a charming read, a very well-executed story, and has been on my pre-order list for months. Safi starts us off with a fact thatRead More

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Marthese reviews Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

June 14, 2019 by Danika Ellis

“We’re not allowed to touch any of them, no matter what they do to us” Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley was a difficult book to read, but an important one. While it is a fiction book, it is realistic; it could have happened. I found this book at the library. It hadn’t beenRead More

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Mallory Lass reviews Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me written by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

June 13, 2019 by Danika Ellis

CW: teen pregnancy & abortion, minor homophobia. I fell in love with Tamaki’s writing in female helmed superhero comics like She-Hulk. I was over the moon to hear she had a queer graphic novel coming out, and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me is packed with queer representation. Frederica “Freddy” Riley is an averageRead More

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About the Lesbrary

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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  • Book Riot's LGBTQ Coverage
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