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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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A Wicked Wonderland: Off With Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta Review

January 11, 2025 by Jazelle H.

It’s been five years since young witches and lovers Caro Rabbit and Iccadora Alice Sickle were both sentenced to Wonderland, the dark forest where monsters called Saints lurk, for a crime they didn’t commit. In the process of escaping, they break one another’s hearts. Now Icca will stop at nothing to exact her revenge onRead More

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A Lush and Sensual Greek Myth Retelling: The Palace of Eros by Caro de Robertis

August 14, 2024 by Anna N.

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! It’s no secret that Anne Carson has inspired many a sapphic love affair with ancient Greek myths, or that stories like Malinda Lo’s Ash, Sarah Diemer’s The Dark Wife, and a vast world of AU fanfiction showed that the threads from which most modern myths areRead More

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A Sapphic Nova Scotia Gothic: A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland

July 8, 2024 by Danika Ellis

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I couldn’t tell you why, but I am obsessed with sapphic selkie stories. There are very few of them out there, but I leap on the chance to read any that I stumble upon. Don’t get me wrong: I like sapphic mermaids, too, butRead More

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An Obsessive, Erotic, Vampire Gothic: An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson 

February 13, 2024 by Rachel Friars

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I feel as though all my adult life I have been wishing for a Carmilla retelling that really illuminates the heart of the original novella—the obsession, intensity, eroticism, and power struggle between Carmilla and Laura that makes the text one of the most lasting examples ofRead More

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Medieval Queer Chaos: Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher

February 10, 2024 by Jazelle H.

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Gwendoline and Arthur have been betrothed to one another since birth. Too bad they absolutely hate each other. When forced to spend a summer in Camelot together, Gwen and Arthur discover tantalizing secrets about one another: Gwen witnesses Arthur kissing a boy, while ArthurRead More

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Gay Arthurian Hijinks in Space: Once & Future by A.R. Capetta and Cory McCarthy

November 17, 2023 by Vic

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Once & Future, by married couple A.R. Capetta and Cory McCarthy, takes Arthurian mythos into the stars. It follows the latest, and hopefully last, reincarnation of King Arthur, now a teenage girl named Ari, and the wizard Merlin, who, due to his backwards aging,Read More

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Ungovernable Gender Chinese Fantasy: The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang

August 28, 2023 by Mims

Bookshop.org Affiliate Link When a book is described as being about ruthless bandits with unseemly femininity and ungovernable gender, let’s just say that I had little to no choice in devouring every single page of The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang. It’s a queer martial arts political epic fantasy retelling of a Chinese classic called Water Margin. ButRead More

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Sweet Summer Bi Vibes: Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler

August 12, 2023 by Jazelle H.

Bookshop.org Affiliate Link “Just because you’re telling a good story doesn’t mean it’s the right story. And I think it’s really important to tell the right story.” For three years of high school, Larissa had extreme heart-eyes for Chase Harding; the sweet, popular, football star any girl would die to date. After returning from summerRead More

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A Bisexual Historical Horror Retelling: Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste

July 31, 2023 by Meagan Kimberly

Bookshop.org Affiliate Link This is a fascinating story about the trauma inflicted on women by violent men. It’s told from the point of view of women in classic novels who were tossed to the side by literary history: Lucy from Dracula and Bertha, a.k.a. the Mad Woman in the Attic, from Jane Eyre. Lucy and Bee enjoy theirRead More

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