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Sapphic Book Reviews

the cover of Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk
Lesbrary Reviews

A Sapphic & Sanguine Vampire Gothic to Satisfy All Your Cravings: Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk

October 20, 2024 by Raquel R. Rivera

Are you searching for a spine-tingling sapphic read to round out your October TBR? Look no further! Thirst is a gorgeous Gothic novel that follows two women across two different time periods as they grapple with their seemingly insatiable desires. Written by Marina Yuszczuk (she/her) and translated by Heather Cleary, Thirst is told in two parts. In Part One, aRead More

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A Lush Bisexual Vampire Gothic: Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk

June 17, 2024 by Maggie

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk, originally published in 2020 and translated this year by Heather Cleary, is a dramatic and lushly gothic novel about two women who a string of circumstances going back over a century bring together in modern day Buenos Aires. Yuszczuk revelsRead More

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Credit Card Debt, Climate Change, and Magical Girls: A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon

May 13, 2024 by Theo

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I am sure you are all familiar with magical girl stories like Sailor Moon, but have you ever heard of a magical girl with credit card debt? In Park Seolyeon’s A Magical Girl Retires (translated by Anton Hur), our unnamed protagonist is 29, has lost herRead More

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A Feminist, Latin American Vampire Gothic: Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk, translated by Heather Cleary

January 30, 2024 by Rachel Friars

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Recently translated into English, Marina Yuszczuk’s queer vampire novel, Thirst (Dutton, March 5, 2024), is partly what I’d hoped for in a vampire fiction, and at the same time, it was nothing like what I’d expected.  Although it’s a Gothic, vampire novel on the surface, ThirstRead More

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Scattered Shreds of Sapphic Poetry—If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson

January 27, 2024 by Samantha Lavender

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! My girlfriend’s and my 10-year anniversary was this month, and I figured it was well past time we bought our own volume of Sappho. For those who don’t know, Sappho was a poet from the island of Lesbos who lived around the turn ofRead More

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Kayla Bell reviews Gingerbread Hearts: Six Lesbian Christmas Stories

January 2, 2020 by Danika Ellis

Just like last month, this month I wanted to read a cozy, sweet holiday themed book because I don’t think there are enough queer ones out there. This short story collection from 2012 was a decent addition to that list, and if you’re looking for a very fast Christmas read, this anthology might be 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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