#queerbooks — Public Fediverse posts
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Disappoint Me (Nicola Dinan) – Max is a once-published poet who spends most of her days signing off emails pretending to be an AI. After falling down the stairs at a new years party and waking up alone, Max reassesses her life and give heteronormativity a try. While Vincent's trad friends may not be the best fit and his Chinese parents never pictured him dating a trans woman, Max feels he cares for her deeply. Yet he carries his own secrets that could upset their idyllic future.
I had trouble getting into this at the start as there was only a few times I felt a hook during the relatively slow pacing. But I really started to enjoy it by the second half. Particularly as Vincent's backstory was unfolding, giving me the feeling I was holding onto a piece of gossip Max really needed to know. Beyond that, it certainly tapped into my own fears a great deal and made it deeply personal.
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Book 12 was My Not-So-Super Blind Date by Allison Temple (narrated by Scott Rose).
60+ first dates 🌮
Son of a superhero x villain’s henchman 🦸🏻♂️🦹♂️
Wibbly wobbly timey-wimey 🕰️
Queer, cosy, and Canadian 🏳️🌈🇨🇦Get it in #KoboPlus: https://www.kobo.com/en/audiobook/my-not-so-super-blind-date-2
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Hello. I’m looking for queer romance novels about adults recovering from evangelicalism and purity culture. Any suggestions?
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Book 10 was Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne (narrated by Natalie Naudus & Dylan Reilly Fitzpatrick).
Sentient moss 💚
On a spaceship 🚀
He’s a delight, thank you very much 💖
And one human who just wants to save her sister 🫁 -
Who wants to read more LGBTQIA+ #literature? 📚 🏳️🌈
Coming soon: YEAR OF QUEERLIT –3rd ANNUAL BOOKBLAST! 🥳 🎆
Save the date: August 26, 2026! 📌
Over 200 #books available – and my #novel THE AWAKENING OF THE BUTTERFLY is one of them! ✍️ 🦋 ☺️
www.yearofqueerlit.com
Mark your calendar, download your favorite book(s) and #read! 📖
HAPPY #QUEER #READING! 🌈❣️#queerbooks
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Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante – As a queer trans woman sits in the wake of her friend's death, she recounts her memories of and grief for Vivian amongst encyclopedic entries of the niche TV show they enjoyed together.
As someone who has all too often forged close relationships with people in the glow of a shared fandom, I was deeply touched by this narrative. The story weaves through the meaning of various elements of the show to Vivian and the narrator, along with the narrator's unrequited love and the particular intimacy shared among close trans women. To me, it felt like a deep love letter to grief itself.
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@DeGroene
Mss ook interessant de Queerbrarians Summer Reading Challenge:
"Queer Around the World“
https://queerbrarians.de/2026/06/15/queer-around-the-world/
Zij hebben wat meer recente literatuur en boeken voor young adults.In tijden van book bans wordt mijn lijst met boeken die ik graag wil lezen alleen maar langer :)
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Wat tof, dat @DeGroene in de zomer ook aandacht besteed aan queer literatuur. Tot nu toe besproken:
* Pathologieën (1908) en Pijplijntjes (1904) van Jacob Israël de Haan
* Op het lichaam geschreven (1992) van Jeanette Winterson
En aangekondigd zijn:
* The Well of Loneliness van Radclyffe Hall
* On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous van Ocean Vuong
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Book 9 was Conversion Therapy Dropout, written and read by Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez.
The author spent eight years (eight!) in conversion therapy and lived to tell the tale. This book will break your heart and make you scream – and then it will put you back together and give you some hope. Evangelicalism and purity culture are so messed up.
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This week’s Sapphic Book Bingo category covers sapphic books featuring a plane crash.
For this bingo square, the main character doesn’t necessarily have to be one of the passengers or the pilot of the plane going down, but the plane crash needs to play an important role for the book’s plot.
Check out the 15 recommended books on my website:
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Next month is the release of Cemetery Boys: Espiritu, I'm so excited! In the meantime I'm on a reread of the first book, this time including my partner (Leo) because I've been wanting to show them as well. They're a massive fan now as well!
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Book 8 was Network Effect by Martha Wells (narrated by David Cui Cui and a full cast).
Everyone’s favourite SecUnit is back with its original crew
Now with babysitting duties
Murderbot x ART = all that sassGet it in #KoboPlus: https://www.kobo.com/en/audiobook/network-effect-dramatized-adaptation
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Palm Meridian (Grace Flahive) – In 2067, Hannah is living the last day of her life at the all-lesbian Palm Meridian Retirement Resort in Florida, a state now sinking under the ocean and storms. For her last day, she is throwing a party and reflecting on her life and long lost love. Though as she waits on her lover from 40 years ago to visit her before the end, secrets among the community boil to the surface.
I do love the overall premise and cast of characters a great deal. The community at the retirement resort feels an amazing place to wind down (even accounting for the crippled infrastructure of a failed state under extreme climate change). Their histories and Hannah's reflections are touching, though I feel like it begs for a little more. On the whole, it feels like an underutilised set up both in present and the reflections. That's nothing directly against it, it stands well as itself, but I was left with a feeling that it was asking to be more.
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Book 7 was A Swift and Sudden Exit by Nico Vincenty (narrated by Gabby Naylor).
Time traveller x immortal woman 🕰️
Saving the future and falling in love 🔮
Butch / femme 🛠️💄Get it in #KoboPlus: https://www.kobo.com/en/audiobook/a-swift-and-sudden-exit-1
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I woke up to a bunch of messages and emails saying "congratulations," but it took me a few minutes to find out what I'd won: My sapphic shape-shifter romance "Shifting Nature" won a Goldie Award in the paranormal fiction category!
Thank you so much to all the judges & congratulations to all other winners and finalists.
A special shout-out to Ileandra Young, whose novel "Innocence of the Maiden" won in the same category too!
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Book 5 was Now Shake It, Baby! by Micah Flowers.
Black disabled nonbinary demisexual lesbians 🧡💛🩷🤎
A dancer and a DJ 🎶
Shame-free first time ✅Get it direct from the author: https://payhip.com/b/IDiP5
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Queen of Faces (Petra Lord) – While the rich swap bodies like designer clothes, Anabelle Gage is trapped in a a basic-model male body that will kill her within a year. With the wait list for another body too late for her to live, her one hope is to get into the magical school, Paragon Academy, where the asshole rich kids there are all given a free body on admission. When she fails her third attempt at the entrance exam, she attempts to use her basic magic to steal a new body instead but is caught and given a way out by the school's headmaster: work for him as a mercenary assassin to take down the women leading a rebellion.
I have to say, I was caught off guard by exactly how good this got. I enjoyed the characters a lot and I felt quite invested in the world - or at least wanting someone to burn down the dickheads in charge. Maybe that's for personal reasons given how clear a lot of the parallels are. Some of the world building did come in a bit thick at the start, and the some story beats were telegraphed a little too loudly, but if you're wanting a magical world with an empathetic queer focus and rage at a corrupt elite, then this series will likely be your cup of tea.
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Book 4 was The Shots You Take by Rachel Reid (narrated by Greg Boudreaux).
Two totally heterosexual hockey bros 🏒
And they were roommates 🛌
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Lote (Shola von Reinhold) – After Mathilda discovers a photograph of a long lost Black modernist poet, Hermia Druitt, she is drawn into a fixation to uncover her life. Her investigation leads her to an arts residency in a small European town that is the antithesis of the luxurious excess Hermia lived for.
If you're into cults around artistic theory, uncovering institutionally erased black & queer history, and chaotic queer crime then this might be for you. I loved the characters as they spiral into their conspiracy, though I did find the pacing threw me off a few times. Very much a read for high energy as far as I find but it's an absolute gem of a book.
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New month, new book thread! First up, A Little Discovery by Kate Bauer (narrated by Sam Stark).
The messiest divorce in the history of messy divorces
Cuddle puddles 🧸
Communal living … with kink 😈Get it in #KoboPlus: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/audiobook/a-little-discovery
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Book 29 was Theoretically Straight by Amy Bailey & Alexander C. Eberhart (narrated by Mark Sanderlin & Jacob Bell).
But he’s a cheerleader!
Teenage bi-awakening 🩷💜💙
Homophobic parents … but everyone else is affirming 🏳️🌈Get it in #KoboPlus: https://www.kobo.com/en/audiobook/theoretically-straight
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Book 27 was Valor's Choice by Tanya Huff 🇨🇦
Sending a combat team on a diplomatic mission? Sure! What could go wrong? 🪖🎖️
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To support sapphic authors who write in languages other than English & authors willing to invest in human translators, I'm putting together a big multi-author giveaway.
If you have a sapphic book in a language other than English, submit your book here:
https://airtable.com/appr5l3oRiRCCv7XH/shrQ9F8npFjmyVJfdImportant: All of my promos support human creatives. I don't accept books, covers, audiobooks or translations that were created with generative AI.
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Book 26 was Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden (narrated by Cherise Boothe and Adenrele Ojo).
Remember that episode of Doctor Who with the space whales? 🐳 🚀
Like that but with added class struggles and power dynamics 💪🏾
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We Do What We Do in the Dark (Michelle Hart) – Mallory is the solitary, quiet soul who treasures the private yet craves connection. Through that she is drawn to a distant professor at her university referred to only as the woman - to name her would feel diminishing of her stature or a violation of the personal. Indeed the book feels like a confessional, delivered to a confidant alone in the quiet of the night. https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/dcb14541-f99c-4ae5-b49e-e46b2c0f7a96
