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Happy trans awareness week! Allow me to make you aware of these trans bisexuals

Books listed:

Hugged by Verity Ritchie

Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao

Minuet by A.M. Leibowitz

The Anonymous Letters of C Forestier by Felicia Davin

Foxhunt (Foxhunt, #1) by Rem Wigmore

The Flowered Blade by Taylor Hubbard

Homegrown Magic by Jamie Pacton and Becca Podos

How to Survive a Slasher by Justine Pucella Winans

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If you're concerned about BIPOC, queer, and other diverse books being banned, here are some of the most effective things you can do to fight censorship and book bans.

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💖 Sapphic Books Coming Out November 2024

🩷 Good afternoon, bookish bats. By now, you know that sweet, sapphic romance books have a special place in my heart. Here are only a few of the amazing sapphic books hitting shelves in November 2024.

💖 Which ones are you adding to your TBR?

Contemporary 💖 Rani Choudhury Must Die - Adiba Jaigirdar 💖 Leap - Simina Popescu 💖 Wake Up, Nat & Darcy - Kate Cochrane 💖 Thanks for Listening - Molly Horan 💖 A New Leash on Love - Jaime Clevenger 💖 Mallory in Full Color - Elisa Stone Leahy

Fantasy 💖 The Lotus Empire - Tasha Suri 💖 A Wild and Ruined Song - Ashley Shuttleworth 💖 The Moonstone Covenant - Jill Hammer 💖 Witch Queen of Redwinter - Ed McDonald 💖 Our Deadly Designs - Kalyn Josephson 💖 The Last Hour Between Worlds - Melissa Caruso

Paranormal/Horror 💖 I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call - Jamison Shea 💖 Dead Girls Don't Dream - Nino Cipri

Historical 💖 Time and Tide - J.M. Frey

Sci-Fi 💖 Interstellar MegaChef - Lavanya Lakshminarayan

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Would love some recs for queer books centering on fandom or nerd culture if you've got 'em! Especially YA, but I'll take any age category!

Oh this is such a love of mine. First of all, if you haven’t read MK England, you are in for a treat - check out their Romance under Remi K. England, The One True Me and You, and their upcoming Roll for Love. Christen Randall��s The No-Girlfriend Rule was a big fave of mine this year, and def also try Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde, My Year Zero by Rachel Gold, Looking for Group by Alexis Hall, and, for a thriller, Even if We Break by Marieke Nijkamp.

Less nerd culture but heavier on fandom, two huuuuuge faves of mine are Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min and How to Repair a Mechanical Heart by J.C. Lillis. Like all-time, please do not miss them faves. I also really liked Starworld by Audrey Coulthurst and Paula Garner (but know that it is not a Romance!) and I haven’t read The Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston, but it’s def a good fit and I loved Geekerella, which came first but wasn’t queer.

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Books with masculine bi women please (preferably them in sapphic relationship) but I am alright with others too!

ok so it's hard to say if these are genuinely intended as masc characters, & some i would be a little on the fence about labelling as such, but they're the most not-fem bi characters i can think of

abbott by saladin ahmed

the light brigade by kameron hurley

unconquerable sun by kate elliott

in the event of love by courtney kae (love interest)

blackheart knights by laure eve

the space between worlds by micaiah johnson

when she thaws by lily craig (?)

the unconquered city by ka doore

the black coast by mike brooks

fortune favors the dead by stephen spotswood

infamous by lex croucher

santa olivia by jacqueline carey

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Happy Bi Visibility Day 2024!

Happy Bi Visibility Day! We’re celebrating as we do, with great books helmed by bisexual main characters! With absolutely no consistency, I’ve bolded the names of some of the bi MCs who aren’t called out as such in the copy. For even more recs, check out past years’ posts! Middle Grade Lulu Sinagtala and the City of Noble Warriors by Gail D. Villanueva Lulu Sinagtala can’t wait for a fun…

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Sugar Town by Hazel Newlevant (review) and Love is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar (review). There's also one cute story in Falling In Love With Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson that fits.

I’m interested in if you have any recs for books with kinky characters that aren’t necessarily straightforward erotica — stories where kinky people get to have full lives where kink is just a part of them. I’d love to see characters talking about how kink affects their lives and relationships, how they realized they were kinky, etc. Bonus points if it’s not about BDSM, because I feel like I see that much more commonly represented than other kink communities.

R.O. Kwon's a great place to start - check out her most recent novel, Exhibit, and the anthology she coedited with Garth Greenwell, Kink. Also check out Xan West's Eight Kinky Nights, and Reese Morrison has a whole Romance series on Daddies. And if you're interested in nonfic, check out Tina Horn's Why Are People Into That?

(Also, not queer, but a Romance I always think is great for this is Hold Me Down by Sara Taylor Woods.)

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Feels like an upcoming book people should know about!

A second-chance queer romance about two teens whose in-world D&D characters fall in love, but in IRL  . . . things are more complicated, perfect for lovers of Ashley Poston and Becky Albertalli.

Harper Reid's summer is not off to a great start.  After the death of her grandpa, she moves across the country, leaving her friends and Dungeons & Dragons group behind. She wasn’t exactly planning to start her senior year on the farm where she spent her childhood summers, but running into Ollie Shifflet—former best friend and first crush—makes things much better. When Harper discovers Ollie and her friends are starting a new D&D campaign, she quickly joins the group. As Harper and Ollie reconnect in the real world, romantic tension begins to build between Harper’s brash barbarian and Ollie’s proud paladin, but it's all just part of the game . . . right? 

Ollie's future depends on keeping her bisexuality private while Harper's dreams include an out-and-proud life in their rural town, but as their feelings continue to grow with each gaming session, their relationship begins threatening everything they've worked so hard to build. As the school year comes to a close and the campaign's final boss looms on the horizon, Harper and Ollie must decide: are their feelings more than just a fantasy? Because if they want a second chance at love, they'll have to fight for it, both in-game and in real life.

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*me at the club* so does anyone wanna discuss queer undertones in classic literature?

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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!

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. You also get access to the Lesbrary Edelweiss and Netgalley accounts, where you can request not-yet-released queer titles.

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

(More info at the link below.)

The Lesbrary Is Looking for More Reviewers!

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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!

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. You also get access to the Lesbrary Edelweiss and Netgalley accounts, where you can request not-yet-released queer titles.

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

(More info at the link below.)

The Lesbrary Is Looking for More Reviewers!