…form. Our only rules are that authors may not submit their own books and your list needs to be new-to-you books that were read (not necessarily published) in 2023. Here are Ry Herman’s top sapphic reads of 2023: 1. Nettleblack…
By Christine Lynn Herman
Six years ago, three Long Island teenagers were murdered—their drowned bodies discovered with sand dollars placed over their eyes. The mystery of the drowning summer was never solved, but as far as the town’s concerned, Evelyn Mackenzie’s father did it….
By Ry Herman
Tender and unforgettable, Love Bites is a laugh-out-loud, queer romance with a surprising paranormal twist. Two years after a painful divorce, Chloë is still struggling to leave the house, paralysed by anxiety and memory. So when she’s bullied into a…
By Ry Herman
It’s hard to hold down a functioning relationship at the best of times – but it’s harder still when one half of the couple is on the wrong side of dead, and the other’s just discovered they possess powers that…
By Monica Ojeda and Sarah Booker | Narrated by Victoria Villarreal
…sanity. Each day she edges nearer to a total break with reality. Interweaving pop culture references and horror concepts drawn from from Herman Melville, H. P. Lovecraft, and anonymous “creepypastas,” Jawbone is an ominous, multivocal novel that explores the terror…
…and due to an episode of a podcast called Les Do Books in which Tara Scott and Amy Herman-Poll talked about why they loved the story and requested a sequel, said sequel was contracted. It’s called Embracing the Moon, and…