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The Life and Times of Butch Dykes by Eloisa Aquino

September 13, 2020 by Danika Ellis

The Life and Times of Butch Dykes was originally a series of zines, now collected in a highly illustrated hardcover. I was on board from the title page, where the publisher says, “If you bought this on Amazon, I’m so sorry because you could have gotten it cheaper and supported a small, independent publisher atRead More

Carmilla: Bringing the Lesbian Vampire Home graphic
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Bringing the Lesbian Vampire Home: Carmen Maria Machado’s Reclamation of CARMILLA

September 12, 2020 by Danika Ellis

Carmilla is a lesbian vampire story that predates Dracula by decades. It’s a story I’ve come back to over and over, in the same conflicted way that I am drawn to lesbian pulp. In fact, I wrote a post about queer culture’s tendency to reclaim toxic representation, and how Carmilla and lesbian pulp fits into that. On the one hand, it’sRead More

Anna Burke with her dog!
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Landice interviews Anna Burke about her book Spindrift

August 19, 2020 by Danika Ellis

Anna Burke is not just one of my favorite lesfic authors—she’s one of my all time favorite authors, period. I love her dystopian lesbian pirate debut novel so much that I’ve convinced 6+ different friends to read it, essentially turning my Sapphic Bookstagram group chat into the unofficial Compass Rose fan club, and I creditRead More

Uncomfortable Labels by Laura Kate Dale
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Link Round Up: June 1 – 10

June 10, 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 8 Funny Books Featuring Queer Adult Women and The Perfect Queer Poem: When You Need to Find Your Body. Book RiotRead More

We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia cover
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Link Round Up: May 18 – 31

June 1, 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 The Perfect Queer Poem: For Defining Your Boundaries. Book Riot posted Out First LGBTQ+ Books. Bustle posted 26 NewRead More

The Lady and Her Secret Lover by Jenn Le Blanc
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Link Round Up: April 21 – May 5

May 6, 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 8 Crime Books Featuring Women Loving Women & Other Queer People. LGBTQ Reads posted New Releases: May 1-7, 2019.Read More

The Brilliant Death by Amy Rose Capetta cover
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Link Round Up: December 13 – January 1

January 1, 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!              Advocate posted The Best Books We Read in 2018: Coffee Table The Best Books We Read in 2018: Queer History & Bios The Best Books We ReadRead More

The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan cover
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Link Round Up: November 12 – December 12

December 12, 2018 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 Five Steamy Lesbian Reads for the Holidays and 50 of the Best LGBT Books of 2018. Lambda Literary posted New in December: Kevin Killian, MarkRead More

Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Womanhood cover
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Link Round Up: February 15 – 28

February 28, 2018 by Danika Ellis

             Autostraddle posted Queers at the End of the World: An Interview with Queer Feminist Fabulist Carmen Maria Machado and Desiree Akhavan on Sex Scenes, Spectatorship, and Shooting ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’: The Autostraddle Interview. Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian posted The Ten Queer Black Books I’m Most Excited to Read in 2018. LGBTQ Reads posted Around the Blogosqueer:Read More

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Lesbrary Link Round Up: August 31 – September 20

September 21, 2017 by Danika Ellis

Autostraddle posted PHOTO GALLERY: Queer in the Stacks and 10 South Asian LGBTQ Books That Changed My Life. BiblioSapphic posted Romance tropes in Sapphic books || A rec list. Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian posted Queer Books Coming in Fall 2017 from Arsenal Pulp Press and 10 Canadian Bisexual Books to Read for Bi Visibility Week Lambda Literary posted New in September: Ariel Gore, Danez Smith, EileenRead 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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