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Happy Bi Visibility Day 2025! It's Bi Visibility Day, and we're celebrating as we do with books starring bi main characters! For even more recs, check out past years' posts! Young Adult Wish You Weren’t Here by Erin Baldwin All’s fair in love and Color War. Juliette doesn’t hate Priya Pendley. At least, not in the way teen movies say she should hate the hot popular girl.

Happy Bi Visibility Day 2025!

It's Bi Visibility Day, and we're celebrating as we do with books starring bi main characters! For even more recs, check out past years' posts! Young Adult Wish You Weren’t Here by Erin Baldwin All’s fair in love and Color War. Juliette doesn’t hate Priya Pendley. At…

if you stiiilll like lesbiannnnns i have mooooore lesbiannnnnsss

(yes, i made that knife) (yes, it’s thematically relevant)

I’m looking particularly for more reviewers of color, disabled reviewers, and trans reviewers, but anyone who regularly reads sapphic books is welcome!

I am looking for more reviewers at the Lesbrary! You just have to commit to one review, list, or essay a month about sapphic books and in return you get forwarded all of the sapphic ebooks sent to us for possible review.

a collage of sapphic book covers with the text The Lesbrary is looking for more reviewers!

Do you love reading sapphic books? Feel like talking about them at least once a month? Want to be buried in an insurmountable pile of free sapphic ebooks? Join the Lesbrary!
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Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for September 2025 From horror to rom-coms and everything in between!

Nice way to start the day!
Thanks, @autostraddle.bsky.social !

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#AMurderousBusiness #BookSky

A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white square with a thin outline and text that reads "218 queer books coming out in September". The 218 is in matching horizontal rainbow stripes and September is in pink text. Text between the number and month are all caps black font.

🌈 What's COMING OUT (pun intended) this September? Which books are you excited for? Which books are you adding to your TBR? Any other queer releases you know of? 🧵

I also lost money when I switched to Bookshop affiliate instead of Amazon. In fact, I still make about 5x to 10x more from Amazon vs Bookshop just from those old links.

Making money at all online is tough, but it becomes almost impossible when you have moral standards. 🙃

That's part of why I only do ads I book personally at the Lesbrary. It's definitely undermined how much money I could make, but I want to protect readers from that garbage.

LGBTQ+ Monthly Releases Tell us all about the queer books you have coming out in the future so we can note them down for our monthly release lists at swordsandsapphics.com! Please do not include any books that have been rele...

Got a queer book coming out in September or later? Make sure to fill out our form to be featured on our next blog post! 🏳️‍🌈

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It's Friday! Your assignment this weekend: Hang out in a bookstore or library. Spend time with the books. Chat with the booksellers & librarians. Enjoy the community. This is activism. Your presence energizes these spaces & these spaces need energy. Have a great weekend!

Unsurprisingly, Gender Queer is on this list. I'm so frustrated that Canadian teachers, students, and librarians are having to deal with this same shit we're dealing with here in the US. Canadian authors you can join @authorsabb.bsky.social !

What Is Queer Generational Trauma, and How Do We Tell Stories About It? Lately, I've been obsessing over the concept of queer generational trauma: the pain passed down to us from our ancestors, which we bequeath in turn to those who come after us.

"There’s the gagging ouroboros of history... you’re beating your fists against a wall that bears the indents of countless fists, going back forever."

Over in Autostraddle, I write about queer generational trauma: how it works, and how to tell stories about it.

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Announcing the Finalists for the 37th Annual Lambda Literary Awards This year marks 37 years

We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards! lambdaliterary.org/2025/07/anno...

There are so many gothics out this year!

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a spreadsheet of upcoming sapphic books, with columns for publication date, title and author, representation, genre, and notes

Here's my list of 150+ sapphic books out from July-December of 2025, sortable and searchable by genre, release date, and representation: lesbrary.com/sapphic-book...

Let me know if I missed any that you're excited about!

5 Queer YA Summer Books to Read in the Sunshine There's something about sunshine and fun reads that pair perfectly together. Thse queer YA summer books do it best.

5 Queer YA Summer Books to Read in the Sunshine | Book Riot

A Love Letter to Country Queers This collection of interviews, photographs, and ephemera is a love letter to the queer people living in rural U.S. communities.

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Book cover: Summer Official by USA TODAY bestselling author Rebekah Weatherspoon A plus size brown skinned black girl carrying a skateboard and wearing crop black tshirt that says Queen of Hearts in white lettering and black jeans and black vans, walking hand in hand with a light skinned black girl with blond hair. She is wearing a white tank top, demon shorts, white ankle socks and green converse. She has a blue cast on one arm with doodles all over it. They are walking through an illustrated Venice beach. The Venice over head sign has been replaced with the book title Summer Official.

Opposites attract in this sweet, sapphic romance about two girls who reluctantly join forces to escape the effects of going viral! THIS PAPERBACK EDITION FEATURES GORGEOUS THREE COLOR SPRAYED EDGES. Saylor Ford and Heaven Goo-Campbell could not be more different. Saylor is bubbly, popular, athletic, and always coupled up. Meanwhile, Heaven is grumpy and artistic, prefers her skateboard to people, and is perpetually single. So obviously, sparks fly when they must spend the entire summer together. When Saylor, distracted by her mom’s viral video about Saylor’s coming out, breaks her arm at basketball camp, she becomes determined not to spend the summer stuck at home with the social media star. Her best escape is the girl she’s pretty sure can’t stand her but whom she finds absolutely irresistible, Heaven. Thankfully, Heaven is willing to let Saylor in on her summer plans, but for a price. Saylor has to help Heaven establish her social media presence, showcasing her art for her future career as a tattoo artist. They didn’t anticipate the intimacy of spending each day together and the deepening feelings that followed. And their bingo scavenger hunt is now less a shared project and more a skate ramp for to romance. But do the girls have a future together if Saylor is wary of bringing a relationship out into the open—too afraid that her mom’s influencer status will attract more attention than Saylor and timid Heaven can handle?

ITS OFFICIALLY TIME!!!! 🛹🩵🍦
COVER REVEAL for my upcoming sapphic YA rom com, SUMMER OFFICIAL! I am obsessed with this cover and I hope you are too. rebekahweatherspoon.com
Cover Illustration: Mimi Moffie / IG @ mimimoffie
Cover Design: Theresa Evangelista @penguinteen.bsky.social

SAD! MAD! FENS!

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

I made a spreadsheet of more than 300 sapphic books that came out in the first half of 2025. Feel free to make a copy and sort by genre or representation. This includes any book with a sapphic main character, but you can filter by specific representation: lesbrary.com/sapphic-book...

A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white square with a thin outline and text that reads "156 queer books coming out in July!". The 156 is in matching horizontal rainbow stripes and July is in yellow text. Text between the number and month are all caps black font.

🌈 What's COMING OUT (pun intended) this July? Which books are you excited for? Which books are you adding to your TBR? Any other queer releases you know of? 🧵

Happy Disability Pride Month 2025! It’s Disability Pride Month, and we’re celebrating with books that have queer disabled main characters! For more books with queer disabled MCs, or to look for specific conditions, check out our Disability/Neurodivergence page, linked here, as well as past year's posts. If you have a visual disability and are looking for more accessible titles, you can find lists on the site of books available in…

Happy Disability Pride Month 2025!

It’s Disability Pride Month, and we’re celebrating with books that have queer disabled main characters! For more books with queer disabled MCs, or to look for specific conditions, check out our Disability/Neurodivergence page, linked here, as well as past year's…

Camp Damascus Camp Damascus - Kindle edition by Tingle, Chuck. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Camp Damascus.

BUCKAROOS i have just learned CAMP DAMASCUS kindle ebook will be on sale for the month of july. right now you can get it for just 2.99 so it is great time to ENTER THE TINGLEVERSE (also great time to hunt for hidden connections to LUCKY DAY in camp damascus pages) www.amazon.com/Camp-Damascu...

I made a spreadsheet of more than 300 sapphic books that came out in the first half of 2025. Feel free to make a copy and sort by genre or representation. This includes any book with a sapphic main character, but you can filter by specific representation: lesbrary.com/sapphic-book...

Last day to get 20% off these LGBTQIA+ books!

special edition cover of THE LESBIAN HOT DOG GETS ME OFF ALSO SHE IS A DOCTOR ALSO SHE IS VEGAN featuring audiobook cover on pink picnic blanket with jamie loftus on one side holding a hot dog and chuck tingle on the other side

presenting THIS HOT DOG GETS ME OFF ALSO SHE IS A DOCTOR ALSO SHE IS VEGAN SPECIAL EDITION AUDIOBOOK read by true buckaroo @jamieloftus.bsky.social audiobook is FREE but we are asking for donations to LA STREET VENDOR FUND who are helping vendors impacted by ICE RAIDS www.patreon.com/posts/this-l...