Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Content warnings: child abuse, child death, trauma Back in the 90s, a serial killer known as the Father kidnapped and murdered children, always siblings. Only one survived: Jillian, who became Erin, and she just wanted to forget the whole thing. But Harriett, whose cousinsRead More
A Fast-Paced Space Opera: The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
Buy this through Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Enitan is a scribe focused mostly on figuring out how to grow her tea business on the side, but when her sibling Xiang is kidnapped and the Imperial forces decree that they need a political hostage, she volunteers so that she can go toRead More
An Inclusive Magical Boarding School Story: Basil and Oregano by Melissa Capriglione
Buy this through Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Since reviewing Grand Slam Romance, a heartwarming, sexy, and inspiring graphic novel set in the world of a magical queer softball league, I’ve been searching for another graphic novel to scratch that very specific itch. To my delight, Melissa Capriglione’s Basil and Oregano did just that. ThoughRead More
Sapphic Satanic Panic: Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash
Bookshop.org Affiliate Link In her debut adult novel, Rainbow Black (March 19, 2024), Maggie Thrash (she/her), author of the critically acclaimed young adult graphic memoir Honor Girl, delivers a compelling, witty, and often moving account of Lacey Bond, whose life is forever changed when her parents are arrested and prosecuted for allegedly committing acts of ritualistic childRead More
The Secret History Meets The Breakfast Club: The Chandler Legacies by Abdi Nazemian
Bookshop.org Affiliate Link At a private boarding school, five writers are selected for the elite writing group called the Circle: Beth, the “townie” who feels very much out of place; Sarah, Beth’s former roommate who carries her own secrets about the school; Spence, who struggles to carve out her own identity while also benefiting fromRead More
Magical Girls and Sports Gays: Grand Slam Romance by Ollie Hicks and Emma Oosterhaus
Bookshop.org Affiliate Link For those of you mourning the cancellation of Amazon’s adaptation of A League of Their Own, I offer you an antidote. Grand Slam Romance, which follows the star players of a semi-professional women’s softball league, simultaneously serves romance, sports rivalry, horny locker room encounters, queer community, and a touch of magic. The debut graphicRead More
Misogyny and Murder: Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
Bookshop.org Affiliate Link In her most ambitious novel yet, crime writer Jessica Knoll—author of Luckiest Girl Alive (2015)—blends fact and fiction as she adapts the events surrounding a series of killings committed in Tallahassee, Florida in 1978. Bright Young Women (2023) begins in January 1978. Patricia Schumacher is president of her sorority at Florida State University. She takesRead More
All The Pretty Girls Read Sapphic Stories: Readalikes for Reneé Rapp’s Snow Angel
If you have watched The Sex Lives of College Girls or Mean Girls (the musical), then chances are that you’re familiar with bisexual singer/actor Reneé Rapp. In 2022, Rapp released her debut EP Everything to Everyone, which featured nine original songs about mental health, her queer identity and love. Most recently, Rapp released her firstRead More
Getting the Band Back Together: It Goes Like This by Miel Moreland
Bookshop.org Affiliate Link It Goes Like This is a story about friendship, second chances, and not giving up on the people who care about you. The story follows the former members of Moonlight Overthrow, a band of teenagers who split up a year and a half before the events of the novel. Celeste and Gina, twoRead More
Sea Monsters and Lesbian Pirates: The Abyss Surrounds Us & The Edge of the Abyss by Emily Skrutskie
Bookshop.org Affiliate Link The Abyss Surrounds Us and The Edge of the Abyss feel like one book that’s been split in two. And I mean that in the best way possible—one of my biggest frustrations with young adult fiction is when it doesn’t take the time to slowly and properly develop its themes, characters, narrativeRead More
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