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Queer, Revelatory Joy in The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag 

March 5, 2025 by Susanne Salehi

Already a fan of Molly Knox Ostertag’s The Girl from the Sea, I had a good feeling about the weighty tome that is The Deep Dark. Friends, this poignant graphic novel delivered and then some. It’s like someone translated the sensation of waiting for the other shoe to drop and described the steps someone would take toRead More

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Horror that Lingers: We Came to Welcome You by Vincent Tirado Review

February 5, 2025 by Susanne Salehi

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

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A Bloody Tale of Lesbian Revenge: Metal from Heaven by August Clarke Review

January 2, 2025 by Caelin

I’ve been a fan of August Clarke since I finished reading their first book, The Scapegracers. I then devoured the whole series, and when I saw that they had an adult fantasy novel releasing, I leapt at the opportunity to read it. Metal from Heaven is a book about lesbians and class warfare. While it’sRead More

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Folk Horror and the Troubled Teen Industry: What the Woods Took by Courtney Gould Review

December 7, 2024 by Anna N.

In European folk and fairytales, a journey through the woods represents the characters’ coming of age—their passage from the pastoral, relative security of familial and familiar hearths into a fraught, shadowy place where metaphors for social anxieties lurk around every corner. Only with wit and friendship can one come out the other side, though theyRead More

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Queer Small Town Livin’: Like Other Girls by Britta Lundin

October 15, 2024 by Laurel

Mara loves basketball—which is a problem, because she’s currently not allowed to play. After getting in a fight during a game, her coach kicks her off the school team and bars her from rejoining until she can prove that she can be a team player. In an attempt to prove her ability to not let her angerRead More

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The Queer Graphic Novel That Had Me Sobbing at 3 A.M.: The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag

September 2, 2024 by Danika Ellis

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! You’re all fired for not tell me how good this is. I liked The Girl From the Sea, so I put a hold on Ostertag’s newest sapphic graphic novel, but I hadn’t heard anything about it, so I my expectations were pretty grounded. IRead More

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Lesbians in Space: Cosmoknights, Vol. 1 by Hannah Templer

July 16, 2024 by Laurel

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! In this queer space adventure, our main character Pan has grown up alongside her best friend Tara, a princess who is soon to be married off to the winner of the interplanetary jousting game that’s about to take place in their town. Tara can’tRead More

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The Joy of Demolishing Your Life: Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake

March 3, 2024 by Danika Ellis

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I read Delilah Green Doesn’t Care almost two years ago and loved it—especially the dynamic between Delilah and Astrid—so I couldn’t tell you why I took this long to read the next book in the series. I still find Astrid to be a fascinatingRead More

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A Holiday Romance with Depth: Season of Love by Helena Greer

December 28, 2023 by Danika Ellis

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Every year, I intend to read a bunch of queer holiday romances in December, but I don’t usually follow through with it. The holiday romances that I have read were often flops, which doesn’t help. This year, I gathered together my collection of sapphicRead More

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Swashbuckling, Time Travel, and Sapphic Romance: Isle of Broken Years by Jane Fletcher

August 25, 2023 by Nat

Bookshop.org Affiliate Link The first thing I have to say about Isle of Broken Years is that I didn’t want it to end, and it’s been a while since I felt that way about a book. The second thing you should know is that this isn’t just a book about pirates, though the cover andRead More

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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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