Amazon Affiliate Link Since reading The Senator’s Wife, I’ve been thinking about what exactly my criteria is for rating a book with five stars. Anne of Green Gables is the first five-star book I ever read; Anne of Avonlea was, unsurprisingly, the second. The three books by Jeanette Winterson that were the subject of my undergraduate thesis—The Passion, Written on theRead More
A Sapphic Asexual Manga Romance: Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon Series by Shio Usui
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I’m always looking for more sapphic manga with adult main characters: until recently, yuri stories between schoolgirls was about all I could find available in English. While some of those are great, I am excited to see more queer manga coming out now withRead More
A Lesbian Poet Teen Finds Her Voice: Kween by Vichet Chum
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Kween is a character-centric book about Soma Kear, a Cambodian teen whose life in Lowell, MA has been deeply shaken. Soma’s Ba has been deported, her Ma is in Cambodia with him, her Bridezilla sister is in charge… and Soma just wants to make senseRead More
Understanding the Japanese Internment Camps: Displacement by Kiku Hughes
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! “And keep drawing, too. Draw what you see, what happens here. It’s important. They can scare us, but they can’t make us forget.” In this simply illustrated yet poignant graphic novel, Kiku Hughes reimagines herself as a teenager who is pulled back in timeRead More
A Queer Take on Dragon Riding: So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole is a Jamaican-inspired YA fantasy. I would like to thank the publisher Little, Brown Young Readers for sending the Lesbrary a review copy. I enjoyed this book a lot, and think it’s a great addition to the genre. There’sRead More
Sweet Sapphic Chaos: The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! “She was a total fucking goner. Whatever magic Tansy was made of, Gemma wanted to drown in it, revel in the honeyed heat burning her up from the inside out. It was better than the finest bourbon she’d ever had the pleasure of sipping.”Read More
A Sapphic Marriage of Convenience Manga: I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up by Kodama Naoko
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Machi has been going along with what other people want for as long as she can remember, but she’s so sick of her parents nagging her to find a husband that she’s ready to marry someone they’d hate to spite them. She wasn’t expectingRead More
A Steamy Lesbian Historical Romance in France: An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! “A person could live a lifetime in six weeks, Your Grace. Entire lives have been changed in less.” Picture this: it’s summer, your sunscreen is applied, and you’ve taken the day off to spend solo on the beach. You’ve already taken a dip inRead More
A Return to Dragons: Magdalene Nox by Milena McKay
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Magdalene Nox by Milena McKay, was published on November 21, 2023, and takes the reader into the world of Three Dragons Academy for Girls. It is a story thirty years in the making, and gives us a peek into the mind of the newRead More
A Painfully Realistic Teen Romance: Cupid’s Revenge by Wibke Brueggemann
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I will admit that the cover really influenced me in picking this one up. I think it’s stunning. But I’m glad I did! Tilly is only non-artist in a house of passionate artists, and she’s always felt left out. Her parents don’t really understandRead More
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