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A Fresh Take on Magic Schools: The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

May 23, 2025 by Rachel Friars

In what has quickly become one of my top novels of the year, Emily Tesh crafts a unique fantasy world full of violence, intensity, and intrigue in The Incandescent (Tor 2025).  In Tesh’s newest novel, which has been compared to fiction by Naomi Novik and Emily Danforth, Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood Academy—a schoolRead More

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5 Sapphic Vampire Books that are Perfect for Spooky Season!

October 10, 2024 by Alice P.

One thing that you need to know about me is that I love vampires! Whether it’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight, Interview with the Vampire, or What We Do in the Shadows, if a piece of media has vampires in it, then I want to consume it. Because of this, I figured that discussing someRead More

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A Book and Herb Review: Basil and Oregano by Melissa Capriglione

May 23, 2024 by Til

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Basil and Oregano is a sweet, safe, very cute and inclusive graphic novel about two girls who fall in love while competing to become top student at their magical cooking school. While chock-full of softness and cuteness, the story also includes serious themes thatRead More

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A Belated Bi Awakening: Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli

May 11, 2024 by Jazelle H.

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Imogen Scott has endless experience as a straight queer ally. Her friends are pan and bi, her sister is out, and she never misses a Pride Alliance meeting. While visiting her best friend Lili at college, who has her own little queer community, ImogenRead More

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F/F Jamaican-Inspired YA Fantasy with Dragons: So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole

February 14, 2024 by Natalie

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Any other Eragon girlies out there? Check out So Let Them Burn, a Jamaican-inspired F/F young adult fantasy that delivered from beginning to end! This moving and action-packed debut has made me a Kamilah Cole fangirl and I can’t wait for the second book inRead 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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A Trans Teen Finds Her Words: Just Happy to Be Here by Naomi Kanakia

January 2, 2024 by Danika Ellis

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Tara is the first trans girl to attend Ainsley Academy, an all-girls school. She finds it hard to fit in, especially considering that she’s also one of the few students of color. One place she does feel like she belongs is the Sibyls, anRead More

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A Return to Dragons: Magdalene Nox by Milena McKay

January 1, 2024 by J.P.

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

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A Literal Dead Poets’ Society: All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters

November 26, 2023 by Sera

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! The days have started getting shorter as darkness takes up more and more space every day. The evening air isn’t quite cold enough to keep you inside, but every gust of wind chills to the bone, and the woods behind my apartment are filledRead More

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Healing in Queer Community: Old Enough by Haley Jakobson 

October 29, 2023 by Shelby

Thank you to PENGUIN GROUP Dutton and Netgalley for this E-ARC in exchange for an honest review. (Published June 20, 2023) I’ve followed Haley Jakobson’s social media for a while, so I was thrilled to hear news of her debut novel. And let me say, it did not disappoint!  Old Enough follows our main characterRead More

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