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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My top 5 for September: 1. Hungerstone by Kat Dunn 2. The Sleeping Sisters by Jennifer Givhan 3. The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri 4. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid 5. Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin

September reading summary: 26 books, 10.8k pages. Most read genres: LGBTQ+ books, Romance, Fantasy, Historical, Literary

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's all for now! I read sapphic books all year, so let me know if you'd like me to review some more on here!

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Queer M/F romance with a transguy lead, yet a whole big piece of his arc stems from believing he’s lost his "sisterhood" of sapphic artists, & even his identity as a woman artist. I thought this was handled beautifully with nuance and care, just love to see it.

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Sleeping Sisters by Jennifer Givhan ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 One of my best reads this month, a genuinely stellar new release on the horror/thriller scene! It’d be a spoiler to get into the queer rep here, suffice it to say it’s p subtle but confirmed at the end, and I was hooked on this story regardless.

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh! and I have some sapphic honorable mentions (??) The main list above are books centering a queer woman as the main character. Yay! But here are a couple more that either have more subtle/secondary character rep, or that need several asterisks to explain 'em 😌

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen ⭐⭐⭐.75 Similar vibes to Hungerstone, with more: hungry parasites, fraught-but-loyal sibling dynamics, and the looming terror of institutionalization & the way that is weaponized. Key similarities: he had it coming, and good for her. (🧵 12)

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My Monster Girlfriend by Smut Peddler ⭐⭐⭐.75 As with most collections, this was a little hit or miss at times, but the ones that hit HIT SO HARD that it’s entirely worth it. Features F/F, F/N, M/F, and polyam relationships too. I'll continue to snatch up new volumes in this series. (🧵 11)

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sapphic coming-of-age in a rural Irish community w/ all the complicated social & familial dynamics therein. Lucy is a hard character to sit with at times, her choices *hurt*, but I think that tension is what makes this shine. (🧵 10)

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Murder Most Actual by Alexis Hall ⭐⭐⭐⭐.25 The mystery is a fun jaunt, but this one earned its flowers with the established relationship romance! Spectacular portrayal of a marriage in trouble and what repair and reconnection looks like. Liza and Hanna had me all in my feels. (🧵 9)

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

... The other if you’re curious is Fire Sword and Sea by Vanessa Riley, which spans decades of the pirate’s (fictional) life and rise to power, and honestly my fave of the two. Both are brutal but Riley’s just hits different! The longer timeline + messier character development sealed it imo. (🧵 8)

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron ⭐⭐⭐⭐.25 Big year for Jacquotte Delahaye! I’ve enjoyed not one but TWO new novels featuring the adventures of the notorious woman pirate and crew. Do check the CW, period-accurate violence and atrocities handled with appropriate gravity. (🧵 7)

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin ⭐⭐⭐⭐.25 It’s perhaps too revealing to say that I related hard to this neurodivergent traumatized narrator 😅 this was genuinely SO funny, and gut-wrenching, and just plain heartfelt. (🧵 6)

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 This one really took me by surprise. I particularly enjoyed the journalist’s POV layered onto the actress’s memories, imo that added just the perfect tension (and gut punch in the end). A compelling read all the way through. (🧵 5)

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

fwiw I have now started Jasmine Throne, too late to review it for this month but let’s just say I’m loving it already and delighted there’s a whole trilogy to enjoy. (🧵 4)

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 Okay I LOVE a good meta-narrative about the power of representation and storytelling to shape our perception of possibilities, and the whole time it's giving sapphic fated romance with queer chosen family 🥺 this one was pure joy! (🧵 3)

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hungerstone by Kat Dunn ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Now that is how you do a Carmilla retelling. Give me a wife who is TiredTM, a naughty guest who is an absolute menace, and a slow-then-fast feminist crash out for the ages. That Ending! With my whole chest: good for her. (🧵 2)

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Before the month is over, here are my favorite reads from this #SapphicSeptember: (🧵 1)

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s book launch week! My debut dystopian novella is out on Wednesday, and I have a packed week ahead. Tuesday: launch party Wednesday: social media/official launch Thursday: very exciting meeting about a different project Friday: signing books at Gay’s the Word bookshop I’m nervous but excited!

This is how the world ends by disco Barrington. An eye with tech details, a protest, and bright dystopian design

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here's a thread of #SapphicSeptember reads from last year! I plan to do an updated one later in the month with new picks ;)

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Circe Andromeda @circeandromeda.satan.social · 11/09/2025

Someone You Can Build a Nest In is a hauntingly beautiful exploration of love, otherness, and belonging. It blurs the line between monster and human, asking us to reconsider what truly makes someone monstrous. www.instagram.com/p/DObehqdiUU... #bookreview #horrorbook #sapphicseptember

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

happy #SapphicSeptember to all who celebrate. I have a polyam romcom about a jaded bartender becoming a hot married couple's third is that is something that appeals bookshop.org/p/books/trip...

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It's the best time of the year! #SapphicSeptember is here and one of this year's themes is sapphic knights, which is one of my favorite things to both write and read about. You can get this lesbian-centered, trans-inclusive, high heat Arthuriana series direct at my shop: riengray.shop ⚔️

Several women in the forest reach out to a knight with a heart on their tabard. It is the illustration The Fairy of the Dawn (1906) by Henry Justice Ford. Overlaid in orange text is Sapphic Knights for Sapphic September.

Rien Gray's sapphic knight book Valerin the Fair overlays a knight with a heart on their tabard and is accompanied by tropes.

Rien Gray's sapphic knight book Martis the Brazen overlays a knight with a heart on their tabard and is accompanied by tropes.

Rien Gray's sapphic knight book Seure the Tempered overlays a knight with a heart on their tabard and is accompanied by tropes.

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Mackenzie 📖🍵 @mackenziespocket.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

happy september everyone! you know what that means - it's #SapphicSeptember! and so i have a few sapphic lady knight (and knight adjacent) book recs. this is obvi an incomplete list but hopefully you can find something to check out! full list will be in next posts hehe #BookSky #QueerAdultSFF 🌈📚🌎📚🪐

A graphic showing 9 book covers on a light tan background. The books are:
- Name Her Holy
- The Starving Saints
- The Gryphon King
- Where Shadows Bloom
- Valerin the Fair
- Tarnished
- Her Pretty Knight
- By Her Sword
- Can't Spell Treason Without Tea

A graphic showing 10 book covers on a light tan background. The books are:
- The Dragon Next Door
- The Afterward
- A Ballad for Slayers and Monsters
- Holy Wrath
- A Knight to Remember
- Stone and Steel
-Spear
- Gideon the Ninth
- The Unspoken Name
- Knight of Nights

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One day left to pick up Name Her Holy for only $1 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🫡 If you’re looking for an indie fantasy about dead cosmic gods and divine lesbians for your #SapphicSeptember I got you: aubreyennis.itch.io/name-her-holy ko-fi.com/s/748ece637a

book trope map for Name Her Holy. Tropes include:

-Lesbian sci-fi/fantasy nonsense
-Mommy issues that come with a sword
-MC "too gay to die"
-If god was the worst guy you knew
-The author's barely disguised fetish (500 pgs of slowburn)
- vibes based magic system

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's SO good, had claws in me from the very first chapter and never let up after that!

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman: Review by Liz Bourke locusmag.com/review/...

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

yesss baby's first farseers 😌 I'm definitely enjoying it so far!

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My top 5 for August: 1. Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker (5★) 2. Tin Man by Sarah Winman (5★) 3. The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman 4. The Best Bad Things by Katrina Carrasco 5. The Lord of the Wood by EM Anderson (plus 2 rereads: Light from Uncommon Stars and Chromatic Fantasy, both 5★!)

August reading summary: 29 books, 10.7k pages. Most read genres: LGBTQ+ books, Fantasy, Romance, Historical, Contemporary

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Once again it's August 6th, otherwise known as Summer Sons day in this household

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Hot on the heels of its shortlisting for the @ursulakleguin.com Prize, here's Amritesh Mukherjee with a great, heartfelt piece on Mad Sisters of Esi. "Unlike traditional fantasy and sci-fi storytelling, with its tidy laws and ironclad rules, Mad Sisters thrives on chaos."

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Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta

How do you separate the one from many, the I from the we?

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MJ Huntsgood @mjhuntsgood.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The Best Bad Things by Katrina Carrassco An amazing Western and mystery with a kick-ass protagonist who likes danger and wants it all. Gay in all the right ways and never lets you down.

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Brook(e) 🦊 @br00k3a133n.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So fun. Please read it if you're also a freak.

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My top 5 for July: 1. The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez 2. After Hours at Dooryard Books by Cat Sebastian 3. How to Say I Do by Tal Bauer 4. The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty 5. Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei (+2 rereads: This is How You Lose the Time War and To the Lighthouse, both 5⭐️)

July reading summary: 30 books, 10.8k pages. Most read genres: LGBTQ+ books, Romance, Science Fiction, Historical, Literary

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Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

"Authors @sharpegirl.bsky.social @nicolaz.bsky.social and Katrina Carrasco all write lesbian fiction that challenges and expands upon the genres they each work in... they show just how expansive lesbian literature can be. Enjoy this very queer conversation between three brilliant minds!"

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Surviving Isn't Enough

"If I’m deliberately trying to queer anything, it’s the world, one reader at a time."

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It's release day for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! Garrodigh is a wild dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. But what's waiting for him up there is far stranger than he imagines. I'm so proud of my dragon for finally escaping into the world!

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The Dragon Has Some Complaints

Check out The Dragon Has Some Complaints - <b>"The dragon may have some complaints, but readers won't. By turns silly, sweet, and subversive, this novel has all of Wiswell's characteristic blend of te...

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Just finished this and really liked it! It's romance, which is not usually my jam, but it also has a radical bookstore, found family, queer and trans community, zines, and a dog named after Walt Whitman! Really wonderful, highly recommended.

My hand holds the book After Hours At Dooryard Books by Cat Sebastian, with grass in the background. The cover is white with an illustration of a New York City block and a yellow streetlight

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The Fantasy Hive @thefantasyhive.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Jonathan reviews Jasmin Kirkbride's debut speculative fiction THE FOREST ON THE EDGE OF TIME: "I defy any reader not to be impressed" Read more: tinyurl.com/6umcbk6s @torbooks.bsky.social @jasminkirkbride.bsky.social

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DdelusionalL @ddelussionall.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Now reading The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty. "...to be a woman is to have your story misremembered. Discarded. Twisted." Yeah, I think I'm going to like this one. 💙📚

Cover of The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakrborty. A ship is covered in a kraken that is dragging it down beneath the water

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ExpendableMudge (he/him) @expendablemudge.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

We're coming to the end of #PrideMonth...treat yourselves to some campy summer fun with @nathantavares.bsky.social's THE DISCO AT THE END OF THE WORLD, moonbases and alien motherships inside discoballs...WILD! #Booksky 🌈📚 expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...

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THE DISCO AT THE END OF THE WORLD, moonbases and alien motherships inside discoballs...WILD!

THE DISCO AT THE END OF THE WORLD NATHAN TAVARES Titan Books ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $9.99 ebook, available now Rating: ...

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Book recs for Disability Pride Month! Sixteen Souls by Rosie Talbot The Undetectables by Courtney Smythe Iron Widow by Xirin Jay Zhao Godkiller by Hannah Kaner The Ending Fire trilogy by Saara el-Arifi Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse 📚💙 #disability

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Ajax 🏳️‍🌈 Bell @ajaxbell.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I loved this. A bit of an Armistead Maupin vibe, with more depth and heart, some magical realism, and a lot of hope and joy in the face of tragedy while being just very very extremely gay in a very realistic late 1980s kind of way. If you liked my books, you will probably like this.

The cover of "Disco Witches of Fire Island: A Novel by Blair Fell" with an image of a kind of pinwheel collage of glitter, a beach lighthouse, a drag queens eye, and shirtless man in sunset lighting, with a disco ball in the center and the title in large white letters over it all.

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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

My top 5 for June: 1. Deed by torrin a. greathouse 2. Disco Witches of Fire Island by Blair Fell 3. Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity 4. Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran 5. If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light by Kim Choyeop Still reading LET THE RECORD SHOW, history of Act Up NY, but def recommend it!

June reading summary: 29 books, 9.3k pages. Most read genres: LGBTQ+ books, Romance, Fantasy, Historical, Contemporary

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

If you’re in the UK and you want a signed, personalised copy of my queer dystopian book This is How the World Ends, you can now preorder directly from me! Buying print copies through other wholesalers gets me almost no money sadly, so this is the best way. Order here: beventi.co/orderform/1s... 📚💙

This is how the world ends by disco Barrington. An eye with tech details, a protest, and bright dystopian design

This is How the World Ends, a queer dystopian horror novella.

Trans rep

Sapphic rep

British & Trinidadian MCs

Multi POV

Post apocalyptic

Doomsday cults

Resistance

Available for preorder now!
Link in bio

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