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It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time to reveal this week’s hot new sapphic books!
There’s a great mix of new women loving women books in so many subgenres this week including a handful of lesbian fiction love stories with popular tropes: lesfic age gap, queer slow burn, sapphic fake dating, wlw erotica, and more.
There’s also suspense, dystopian, fantasy, paranormal, young adult, and literary fiction.
What a fantastic buffet for women loving women readers! There are some amazing lesfic audiobooks, too, for all you audiophiles. You don’t want to miss out on all these wonderful lesbian fiction books coming your way!
We’re doing our best to bring you all the best new releases in lesbian fiction every Tuesday.
It’s Banned Books Week
Over the weekend, TB and Miranda were in a bookstore in Vermont when they stumbled across a table displaying banned books. It broke their hearts, but it’s also lit a fire in them to do what they can to fight book bans, especially this week, which is Banned Books Week.
We’ve been playing a game in the Tuesday newsletters called Can You Name that Book? We’d like to play it here, too, because this week’s book is a sapphic book that has been targeted for banning. Can you guess what book it is?
Here are the clues:
1. This sapphic young adult historical novel written by Malinda Lo and published on January 19, 2021, received the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
2. The story is set in 1950s San Francisco and centers around Lily Hu, a teenage daughter of Chinese immigrants as she begins to understand herself and her sexuality.
3. The idea for this story started to percolate when Lo learned about the lesbian bars that operated in North Beach, near San Francisco’s Chinatown.
The reviews have been positive:
“[T]he intersectional, lesbian, historical teen novel so many readers have been waiting for” & “Queer positive.” Kirkus Reviews
“[P]ensive, rich work of queer historical fiction”. School Library Journal
The book has been targeted by parents as Texas who want it removed from libraries.
Find the answer at the bottom of this post.
Do you have a new sapphic book to promote?
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It’s completely free and a great way to reach readers who will love your books.
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Happy reading and listening!
Miranda & TB