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8 Books That Feature Queer Jewish Women to Read Right Now

Here are eight awesome books with queer Jewish women characters, from YA to literary fiction to historical fiction and more!

Casey July 16, 2018 14 Comments
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8 Books with Bi or Homoromantic Asexual Women Characters

Books with ace homo/bi/panromantic women characters do exist! Here’s a list of eight of these very real and awesome books in genres like romance, fantasy, YA and more!

Casey June 15, 2018 18 Comments
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24 Queer YA Books Coming Out This Summer and Beyond

The queer YA books you’ll want to read at the beach, the park, and everywhere else this summer!

Casey May 30, 2018 7 Comments
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9 Books That Got Us Through Breakups, We’ll Just Leave Them Right Here For You

Here, thought you might need this.

the team May 23, 2018 11 Comments
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Monday Roundtable: Our Favorite LGBTQ Novels

It’s truly magical when you can find a novel with lesbian or bisexual or queer characters that speaks to you and tells a damn good story.

the team May 14, 2018 36 Comments
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7 Super Queer Cookbooks For Your Super Queer Kitchen!

There are thousands of recipes to be explored in these books, and they’re all waiting excitedly to queer your kitchen, so clear off some space on your counters and bookshelves cause it’s time to go shopping and start to change the face of an industry.

Reneice Charles May 8, 2018 20 Comments
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8 Action/Adventure Books with Queer Women Main Characters

Check out these queer-women-fronted action and adventure novels, including basically Die Hard but with lesbians, basically The X-Files but with a bisexual love triangle, pirate stories, thrillers and more.

Casey May 7, 2018 14 Comments
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The 5 Cookbooks by Women I Couldn’t Live Without

These are full of scribbled notes, neon “make me next” tabs, oil drips, crinkled pages and most of all, recipes that I adore. They’ve brought immense amounts of joy into my life by way of conversations over dinner and memories made while cooking with people I love, and they all contribute to making me a better, happier cook day by day.

Reneice Charles April 30, 2018 17 Comments
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Read These 10 Books with Queer Witches

Queers and witches just go together.

Siobhan April 5, 2018 8 Comments
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8 Dark Lesbian Mysteries and Thrillers That’ll Give You Deep Chills

These dark mysteries and thrillers featuring lesbian and bisexual main characters focus less on the romance and more on the hair raising on the back of your neck.

Casey April 3, 2018 19 Comments
Book Lists

8 Feel-Good, Comfort Reads Featuring Lesbians of Color

Here are eight light-hearted books featuring queer women (mostly lesbian) characters of color. Some are YA, some are romance, and one is science fiction/fantasy. All are fluffy gay goodness!

Casey March 8, 2018 23 Comments
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8 Books to Read If You Loved Carmen Maria Machado’s “Her Body and Other Parties”

Here are eight queer short story collections that embody the same kind of creepy, “bodies as horror,” fabulist, dark fairy tale feel that Machado’s book does.

Casey February 13, 2018 3 Comments
Book Lists

Read These 8 Works of Intersex Fiction Right Now

Eight stories that feature intersex characters for you to read right now.

Casey January 11, 2018 15 Comments
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65 Queer and Feminist Books To Read In 2018

Your guide to 2018’s queer and feminist books.

Ryan Yates January 2, 2018 9 Comments
Book Lists

The Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2017

2017 has been pretty awesome for a ton of new queer and/or feminist things to read! Here are some of the best.

Ryan Yates December 18, 2017 18 Comments
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8 Soft Femme Memoirs for Your Femme But Not Too Femmey Needs

The following eight memoirs, which deal with gender, food, writing, relationships and more, reflect soft femmes, tomboy femmes, chapstick femmes, and other femmes who aren’t all that femmey.

Casey December 14, 2017 14 Comments
Book Lists

8 Queer Speculative Short Story Collections

Love queer speculative fiction but don’t have the time or energy to read novels or series? Then these eight collections and anthologies of queer speculative short fiction are for you!

Casey November 6, 2017 13 Comments
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25 LGBT History Books to Add to Your Epic Queer History Reading List

Celebrate LGBT History Month by reading LGBT history books!

Ryan Yates October 27, 2017 8 Comments
Book Lists

Read These Queer Banned Books Right Now

Read queer banned books. Support their authors. And maybe buy an extra copy or two of these and leave them in a school library near you.

Ryan Yates September 29, 2017 9 Comments
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8 Books About Queer Friendships to Snuggle Up With This Fall

Most queer books focus on romantic relationships. These ones are centered on queer friendship.

Casey September 27, 2017 10 Comments
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