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Falling in Love in a Historic Theater: If We Were a Movie by Zakiya N. Jamal Review

May 16, 2025 by Vic

When I read YA, particularly contemporary YA and most especially sapphic contemporary YA, I always approach it from the perspective of my sixteen-year-old self. If this book had existed when I was a teenager, what would I have thought of it? Zakiya N. Jamal’s If We Were a Movie would have caught my attention right from the Hannah MontanaRead More

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A Rivals to Lovers Soccer Romance: You Don’t Have a Shot by Racquel Marie

July 19, 2024 by Vic

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Racquel Marie’s You Don’t Have a Shot is a YA romance that centers around Valentina Castillo-Green, a high school soccer star whose life revolves around the sport. After an abrupt end to her junior year soccer season, Vale ends up at soccer camp, co-captaining a teamRead More

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Danika reviews Melt With You by Jennifer Dugan

June 2, 2022 by Danika Ellis

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link This is a sapphic YA romance with an ice cream truck road trip, and if that doesn’t intrigue you, we have very different tastes in books. To be more specific, it’s a friends-to-lovers-to-enemies?-to-lovers? ice cream truck road trip sapphic YA romance. Fallon and Chloe were best friends practicallyRead More

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Danika reviews I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

May 22, 2022 by Danika Ellis

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Chloe Green and Shara Wheeler have been academic rivals since Chloe arrived in this Christian small town high school with its suffocating rules and homophobic culture. But at prom, as the fight for valedictorian is almost at a close, Shara kisses Chloe and disappears. She soon realizes SharaRead More

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Danika reviews She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick

April 28, 2022 by Danika Ellis

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Do you want to read a fun and absorbing new adult F/F romance written by a wife/wife author team? Of course you do. So you can probably stop reading the review now. Go ahead and grab it. This follows two point of view characters: Alex and Molly. AlexRead More

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Kelleen reviews She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick

March 18, 2022 by Lesbrarians

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link You know how sometimes you’re watching a hit 90s romcom set in high school or college and you’re reveling in the delicious shenanigans of the leads and the dramatic irony of them not knowing that they are the leads in a romantic comedy and they’re about to fallRead 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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