Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory (out April 8, 2025) is a book that reminded me that I do actually like romance novels. If I go too long without reading one because my head is stuck in tragic fantasy-and-horror land, I start to delude myself into thinking that I hate cheesy romance and feel-good stories. Fortunately,Read More
Horror that Lingers: We Came to Welcome You by Vincent Tirado Review
Mesmerizing, sickening, echoing-hole-in-your-stomach, roller coaster lurch of a creeping inferno: Vincent Tirado’s We Came to Welcome You: A Novel of Suburban Horror is all that and more. Released in the last quarter of 2024, to the tune of “The Other Black Girl meets Midsommar,” the book takes the banal normalcy of racism and colonialism and twists it until itsRead More
25 Black Sapphic Books Out in 2025 to Preorder Now
It’s Black History Month! It’s always a good time to read Black sapphic books, but this is a great reminder to place your preorders now on some of the fantastic sapphic books by Black authors coming out this year. I’ve put together a list of 25, including some that already came out in January. TheseRead More
A Chilling YA Horror: What the Woods Took by Courtney Gould Review
Courtney Gould’s What the Woods Took is a creepy YA horror that follows a group of teenagers who are sent on a hike through the woods as part of an experimental wilderness therapy program: an abusive, exploitative practice with very little oversight. Even before the supernatural horrors began, we have teenagers getting kidnapped out of theirRead More
Memory as Storytelling: Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch Review
Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch has been on my to-read list for years; I’ve heard nothing but excellent things about that memoir. So, when I saw that she had new one out (that I could talk about on the All the Books podcast), I had to pick it up! Reading the Waves ended upRead More
A Toxic, Surreal Roommate Relationship: Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
Jo, a foreign exchange student from Norway, moves to Australia to study biology at a university. She’s a shy and socially awkward young lady looking for a place to live while studying abroad. Things seem to look up when Carral answers her call for a roommate, giving her a place to live on the outskirtsRead More
Three Hope-Filled Sapphic Graphic Novels
I appreciate when coming-of-age stories show people continuing to learn and grow through college and beyond, and this month, I read three graphic novels in that vein: two college stories and one memoir. All of these stand-alone books feature adults but are appropriate for young adult readers, and all of them are lighthearted. Bunt! StrikingRead More
200+ Sapphic Books Out in 2025
In case you missed it, I just shared a spreadsheet of 500+ sapphic books that came out in 2024. Of course, I also want to give you a heads up about upcoming sapphic books! This is not a complete list of all the sapphic books out in 2025: we’ll be learning about more new sapphicRead More
500+ Sapphic Books That Came Out in 2024
As part of writing the Our Queerest Shelves newsletter for Book Riot, I keep a running list of upcoming queer book releases. Last year, I finally had the brainwave to move them into a separate tab after the release date instead of deleting them, so I wanted to share with you my list of moreRead More
An Engaging and Realistic Queer Coming of Age: Middletown by Sarah Moon
Content warnings: alcohol abuse/alcoholism, sexual harassment by an authority figure, parental neglect, bullying Middletown by Sarah Moon is a middle-grade/on-the-cusp-of-YA novel about 13-year-old Eli, whose mom’s stint in court-ordered rehab leaves her and her 17-year-old sister alone. Eli and her sister Anna are desperate not to be split up, so they lie. They claim their auntRead More
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