Lesbian book recommendations for Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

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Time stamps:
0:00 - 01:34 intro
01:34 - 05:34 #1
05:34 - 08:05 #2
08:05 - 09:59 #3
09:59 - 13:00 #4
13:00 - 15:19 #5
15:19 - 18:33 #6
18:33 - 21:16 #7
21:16 - 23:50 #8
23:50 - 25:35 #9
25:35 - 27:44 outro

[ninatheinkling]

1. Everyone in their room will someday be dead
2. Siren queen
3. Sarahland
4. The divines
5. Light from uncommon stars
6. Midnight lie
7. We set the dark on fire
8. Last night at the telegram club
9. Fortune favours the dead

[megdrummond-wilson]

New to your channel and I love your energy so much. So happy to see a booktuber openly adoring and celebrating lesbian lit.

[andreas]

I happened to be in San Francisco when I started to read Last Night at the Telegraph Club and tried to visit some of the locations that appear in the book. It was such an awesome and beautiful experience! So is the book! highly recommended.

[PirateQueen]

Can second 'Light from Uncommon Stars' and 'Last Night at the Telegraph Club'. Some other recommendations:
- A master of Djinn (F/F romance AND F/F buddy cop shenanigans in a steampunk Cairo)
- Our wives under the sea (Our main POV character's wife went on a deep sea expedition and comes back...different)
- The worm and his kings (Also read for the creep factor more than the romance!)
- Women of the silk (Historical fiction about silk workers in China)
- This is how you lose the time war (Imagine Doctor Who + Good Omens fanfiction, but make it lesbian and also very...literary)
- The color purple (Historical fiction about trauma and healing for a black woman in the deep south)
- In the vanisher's palace (Basically Vietnamese 'Beauty and the Beast' with a lady scholar and a water dragon)
- The Gilda Stories (Black lesbian vampire makes "family" across multiple time periods)
- Hood (Recent-past historical fiction that looks back on a messy lesbian relationship.)
- Otherside picnic (Slow-burn sapphic manga/light novel about two girls exploring doorways to a creepy other world)
- Love After the End: An anthology of two-spirit and indigiqueer speculative fiction
- Affinity (Sad Victorian lesbian meets an imprisoned medium)
- Fingersmith (More Victorian lesbians, but less sad and more...penny-dreadful thriller-y?)
- Sorrowland (Cults and weird fungus and sapphics. What more do you need?)
- The Fox Maidens (a Korean historical fantasy graphic novel)
- Other words for smoke (Because who doesn't like some gay witches?)
- The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (Probably the only actual romance book I've ever rated 4/5 stars. Our protagonist is an...Edwardian, I think, the timeperiod is vague...young lady scientist and the love interest is a wealthy widow who wants to be her patron)

[AmberlyyK.]

I read “Everyone in this room will someday be dead” in march because of you and now it’s one of my all time favs! Will definitely add the ones you mentioned in this video i haven’t yet read to my tbr because so far I’ve loved all of the books i read because of your recommendation!

[poplillyp]

I've read many of these because you've recommended them and I just wanna thank you for bringing them into my life and showing me three of my favourite books of all time (Sarahland, Naamah, and Last Night at the Telegraph Club). Dying to get my hands on that Nghi Vo book and see what everyone raving about with that Emily Austen book <3

[OlivesAndOtherThings]

My absolute favourite lesbian romance is 6 times we almost kissed and omg I cannot tell you how much I love this book. I could read it a trillion times over it is amazing and possibly my favourite romance I’ve ever read. 100% recommend!!

[sophiemurphy]

I read Last Night at the Telegraph Club earlier this year and really loved it 🥰 Also Siren Queen sounds so good!!

[RaspberryDevil]

Repeating books is a good thing because my tbr is so long and sometimes I forget about a book because my library doesn't have it :')

Thankfully, I don't need pride month to read lesbian books (I did read one this month but hated it) so hopefully I can read some of these books later this years! Thanks for sharing these titles with us and happy pride 💖🌈

[Lenaandthepages]

I am obsessed with all of your suggestions. Light From Uncommon Stars is one of my favorites… so quirky and incredible.

[fleur]

I didn’t even have the Divines on the radar as being lesbian, now I’m even more excited for it!
Also I just started watching your videos so I might have missed them but haven’t seen two of my absolute favourite lesbian/queer books: Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters and The bricks that build the houses by Kae Tempest (who also has a full album that deals with the same characters). Both have really complex characters and are beautifully written.

[roadworkaheaduhyeahisureho]

"Next, we have, the Midnight Lie -" *pauses video*

[angelabarron]

Just finished Siren Queen and loved it. Can’t wait to read more books on this list! Thank you for this!

[vitoriar]

these all sound exactly up my ally 😩😩😩 i've started fortune favors the dead (and am loving it) and i've already bought last night at the telegraph club!!! can't wait to read more historical queer fiction, and these ones feel like just what i've been looking for. tysm

[ell]

im so excited to read Siren Queen now!! I've been somewhat putting it off even though I love nghi Vo, but I just wrote a paper about early Asian American film and stereotypes so I'm really intrigued by an Anna May Wong inspired book :o!!

[banannakis]

Fortune Favors the Dead sounds great and right up my street. A historical mystery set in the 40s with queer characters. Yes please, gonna need to read that.

[cchota]

Emily Austins second book “Interesting Facts About Space” is also so good!

[Ohsnapitzann]

I been looking for some good books that represent my path of life thank you for sharing this information with us! 🧡

[elize]

Well, I guess I'm changing my summer tbr priorities (once again) because I want to read basically all of those now! Not complaining tho 🌈

[lineguldberg]

Love these videos! Just made me add more to my TBR 😍