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Sapphic Love in Defiance of Dictatorship: Cantoras by Caro de Robertis

June 17, 2025 by Amanda Růžičková

The Río de la Plata—mud-thick and memory-laden—beats beneath every clause of Cantoras, and Caro De Robertis (they/them) times their prose to that estuarial metronome. Some clauses stretch out like low-tide flats while others are cast out to leave periods bobbing like bottle-caps in the sea. Reading it, I heard the waves breaking in my ownRead More

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Sugar, Spice, and Suffragettes: When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O’Neill

June 13, 2025 by Sritama Sen

I admit, I am tired of feminist retellings. Or rather, books marketed as powerful treatises on female rage, when in reality, they are often little more than palatable, watered-down morsels of women’s empowerment, lacking any nuance. Unfortunately, even fictional empowerment remains a privilege usually afforded to classically beautiful, relatively upper-class white women, who enjoy maximumRead More

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The Fight Isn’t Over: Ten Incarnations of Rebellion by Vaishnavi Patel Review

June 3, 2025 by Danika Ellis

Ten Incarnations of Rebellion takes place in an alternate version of 1960s India, where British colonists’ brutal crackdown successfully quashed earlier attempts at independence. We meet Kalki as a teenager. Her father’s fight for freedom forced him to flee their home, and Kalki hasn’t heard from him since. Despite his rebellion liking costing his life,Read More

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Love in the Times of Seaside Horror: Providence Girls by Morgan Dante Review

May 14, 2025 by Sritama Sen

In the past couple of years, I have discovered some real gems of independent and self-published sapphic literature. Last May, I read Morgan Dante’s stunning Providence Girls, which won Best Historical Fiction at the 2023 Indie Ink awards. The author pitches it as “a seaside sapphic cosmic horror romance” in the vein of The Handmaiden and The Shape ofRead More

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When the Past Won’t Stay Quiet: The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden Review

April 29, 2025 by Amanda Růžičková

Living alone in her late mother’s house in Zwolle, Isabel is a quiet and fiercely guarded woman. An uncle bequeathed the house to the family with the understanding that whenever Isabel’s brother Louis married, he would inherit it. Isabel resides there now under a type of suspended claim—that of a caretaker, but not owner. LouisRead More

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A Noir Mystery with Angels and Demons: Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk Review

March 25, 2025 by Meagan Kimberly

In 1940s Chicago, a serial killer known as the White City Vampire spreads fear as everyone wonders who his next victim will be. Helen Brandt, an exiled magician deemed a warlock for her crimes against the Brotherhood, is on the case. But as the mystery unfolds, her past comes back to haunt her, and sheRead More

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Sapphic Fantasy Noir: Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk

February 19, 2025 by Jamie Rose

Lately, I have been really enjoying queer novellas from the publisher Tordotcom. I had a blast with Elaine Gallagher’s Unexploded Remnants and loved Charlotte Bond’s The Fireborne Blade and its sequel, The Bloodless Princes. The next novella on my reading list is C.L. Polk’s sapphic fantasy noir Even Though I Knew the End.” My expectations for this novella were pretty high givenRead More

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Jane Austen Meets Queer Historical Joy: I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner Review

January 22, 2025 by Danika Ellis

Generally speaking, I’m used to queer historical fiction falling into two categories: depressing and trying to be historically accurate, or joyful and set in an imaginary version of history without bigotry. When I picked up I Shall Never Fall in Love, I was expecting the latter. After all, this is a book that draws heavilyRead More

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A Brutal Colonial Horror Story: To the Bone by Alena Bruzas

October 24, 2024 by Til

To the Bone is the story of Ellis, an indentured girl in the Jamestown settlement of the Virginia colony. Ellis aspires toward little more than goodness; born poor in the late 1500s, she can neither read nor count, but understands the world as preachers sketch its edges. She works hard as a servant to the semi-prominentRead More

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The Perfect Queer Gothic to Read on Halloween: My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johnna van Veen 

October 17, 2024 by Rachel Friars

I’ve been trying to spend the fall reading Gothic fiction, and as Halloween approaches, Johanna van Veen’s queer Gothic horror novel, My Darling Dreadful Thing (Poisoned Pen Press, 2024), is the perfect book for this time of year!  Veen’s debut novel follows Roos Beckman in the 1950s. Roos has a spirit companion, Ruth, has been dead forRead 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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