Aquila1nz Apr 15, 2023

Finally starting to document this again - here's my Every Speculative Fiction Book About Queer Women I read in 2023 thread. ๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿค– ๐ŸŒˆ ๐Ÿฆ„ โ€๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ’‹โ€๐Ÿ‘ฉ

Last year's:
https://mastodon.nz/@aquila1nz/109339725265843855

#QueerSFF2023 #LesbianFiction #WLWFiction #Booktodon #BookRecs, #books #WLWbooks #QueerBooks #LesbianBooks #BookTwitter #SpeculativeFiction

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I keep track of all the #Queer #ScienceFiction and #Fantasy I read about women each year, so this is a continuation of this Twitter thread https://twitter.com/Aquila1nz/status/1509662920694992898 #QueerSFF2022 #LesbianFiction #WLWFiction #Booktodon #BookRecs, #books #WLWbooks #QueerBooks #LesbianBooks #SapphicMigration ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ‰ ๐Ÿงต

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Show threadAquila1nz Apr 15, 2023

The first book I read this year: Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri ๐ŸŒธ ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ Very much the middle book of a trilogy, so Malini and Priya start the book separated and things get dark, but there's great story along the way. https://www.librarything.com/work/26977261/

#SwordLesbians #SapphicTrifecta
#QueerSFF2023

The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri

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Show threadAquila1nz Apr 15, 2023
Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi ๐Ÿฉธ A dark dystopia with a damaged but surprisingly hopeful bisexual protagonist who messes with the Chosen One trope. https://www.librarything.com/work/27103004/
#QueerSFF2023
The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi

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Show threadAquila1nz Apr 16, 2023
The Red Scholar's Wake ๐Ÿดโ€โ˜ ๏ธ by Aliette de Bodard. Pirate morality may be less cruel than that of the society they prey on. Brain ships and a marriage of convenience in the Xuya Universe. Highly recommended.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29385133/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks #BookRecs @sapphicbooks
The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard

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Show threadAquila1nz Apr 16, 2023
A Restless Truth by Freya Marske ๐Ÿšข A deft magical mystery aboard a steamship. I hadn't read the first m/m book in the series and didn't feel the lack.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27454047/ #QueerSFF2023
#QueerBooks @lesfic
A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

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Show threadAquila1nz Apr 22, 2023
How to Get a Girlfriend When You're a Terrifying Monster by Marie Cardno ๐Ÿ‘พ A magic researcher ventures into the Endless, a bit of the Endless follows her back. Short and sweet.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28568460/ #QueerSFF2023
#WLWFiction #NZBooks @sapphicbooks
How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster) by Marie Cardno

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Show threadAquila1nz Apr 22, 2023
Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ Frankenstein and made families, from a non-binary SE Asian-American perspective.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28626545/ #QueerSFF2023
#QueerBooks #NonBinaryStories @lgbtqbookstodon
Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai

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Show threadAquila1nz Apr 26, 2023
The Valkyrie's Daughter by Tiana Warner ๐ŸŽ YA. Sigrid is a stable hand who yearns to be a valkyrie, when she captures Mariam during a raid on Vanaheim she starts to find out about her origins.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27704005/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks #YABooks @sapphicbooks
The Valkyrie's Daughter by Tiana Warner

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Show threadAquila1nz Apr 26, 2023
A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys ๐Ÿ‘ฝ๐Ÿ‘ถ Judy takes her wife and baby along to check out pollutants in the Potomac and finds herself in a First Contact with aliens who consider children an indispensable element of diplomatic talks.
https://www.librarything.com/work/26944302/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianFiction #SolarPunk #Hopepunk @bookstodon
A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

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Show threadAquila1nz May 28, 2023
Last Exit by Max Gladstone ๐Ÿ›ฃ๏ธ Ten years ago Zelda, Sal and their friends played with alternate realities and Sal was lost. Zelda has travelled the highways since, fighting the rot that still seeps in cracks to our reality.
https://www.librarything.com/work/26638159/ #QueerSFF2023
#AlternateRealities @bookstodon
Last Exit by Max Gladstone

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Show threadAquila1nz May 28, 2023
Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack (1996) โ™€๏ธ political lesbian witchy mythology fiction: Mother Night (Death) is there when Jaqe and Laurie meet, and becomes their daughter's godparent.
https://www.librarything.com/work/308844/book/237610385 #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks #QueerFantasy @sapphicbooks
Godmother night by Rachel Pollack

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Show threadAquila1nz Jun 11, 2023
Persephone Station by Stina Leicht ๐Ÿ‘ฝ A nonbinary crime boss hires a ragtag band of mostly queer mercenaries to protect hidden indigenous aliens on a backwater planet. https://www.librarything.com/work/25042615/ #QueerSFF2023
#QueerBooks @lgbtqbookstodon
Persephone Station by Stina Leicht

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Show threadAquila1nz Jun 11, 2023
Tell Me An Ending by Jo Harkin ๐Ÿ’Š Noor, who works at a memory removal clinic where the treatments aren't as permanent as promised, gets involved with a client, Elena. One of five viewpoint characters.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27143927/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks
Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin

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Show threadAquila1nz Jun 24, 2023
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Maria Crane ๐Ÿฆž In a dystopia where wrongdoers are given extra shadows, Kris's wife dies in childbirth and the newborn receives a shadow.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28406205/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks @lesfic
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane

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Show threadAquila1nz Jun 24, 2023
We All Fall Down by Rose Szabo ๐Ÿ™ In a magical city in the Mississippi Basin, Jack finds herself entangled in prophecy, along with a newcomer to town and the children of the previous king.
https://www.librarything.com/work/26911768/ #QueerSFF2023
#TransBooks #QueerFiction @lgbtqbookstodon
We All Fall Down by Rose Szabo

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The Stars Undying by Emery Robin ๐Ÿฆป A Cleopatra and Julius Caesar retelling in space - with a genderbent Mark Anthony, and an uploaded Alexander the Great.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28265954/ #QueerSFF2023
#QueerBooks @lgbtqbookstodon
The Stars Undying by Emery Robin

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Show threadAquila1nz Jun 28, 2023
Tahou by Koฬ„tuku Titihuia Nuttall ๐ŸŸ These past, present and future stories of Aotearoa and Coastal Salish lands made proximate include several lesbian couples.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29414884/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks #NZBooks #AlternateGeography #IndigiQueer #Takatฤpui @sapphicbooks
Tauhou by Koฬ„tuku Titihuia Nuttall

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Show threadAquila1nz Jul 14, 2023
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree โ˜• A DnD coffeeshop AU - Mercenary orc Viv leaves the business to start a cafe and hires succubus Tandri to work in it. Gentle adventures ensue.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27661802/book/238624301 #QueerSFF2023
#SapphicBooks @lesfic
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

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Show threadAquila1nz Jul 14, 2023
The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older ๐Ÿš Mossa goes to her ex, Pleiti, at Valdegeld University for help investigating a fall off a rail platform in Jupiter's upper atmosphere.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28380827/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks #Mystery #BookRecs @sapphicbooks
The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

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Show threadAquila1nz Oct 20, 2023
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher ๐Ÿ„ This fungi threaded retelling of the Fall of the House of Usher has a narrator who comes from a culture where soldiers have their own pronouns, and ka chose that life.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27123359/ #QueerSFF2023 #NonBinaryBook
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

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Show threadAquila1nz Oct 20, 2023
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse ๐ŸŒŸ In book 2 of this mesoamerican secondary world epic fantasy we start to see more of the all female Teek society that bisexual captain Xiala comes from.
https://www.librarything.com/work/26752244/ #QueerSFF2023 #QueerBooks
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse

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Show threadAquila1nz Oct 28, 2023
The Traitor Baru Comorant by Seth Dickinson (2015) ๐ŸŽญ Baru rises from a colonial school to Imperial Accountant but is trapped between her birth society's mores and those of her Masquerade masters even as she betrays them.
https://www.librarything.com/work/15636204/
#QueerSFF2023 @lgbtqbookstodon
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

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Show threadAquila1nz Oct 28, 2023
Nothing to See by Pip Adam ๐Ÿ‘ฏโ€โ™€๏ธ Peggy and Greta are navigating day to day life while staying sober, in a world that would prefer not to admit they exist.
https://www.librarything.com/work/25307607/
#QueerSFF2023
#NZBooks
Nothing to see by Pip Adam

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Show threadAquila1nz Dec 31, 2023
Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling 0๏ธโƒฃ Parallel stories of groups of women surviving the arctic north in a dystopic future include some f/f couples.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29007558/ #QueerSFF2023 #Dystopia
Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling

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Show threadAquila1nz Dec 31, 2023
Lone Women by Victor LaValle ๐Ÿค  Adelaide travels to Montana with the burden her family left her. She finds women who help her, including a couple.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28991907/
#QueerSFF2023 #Western #Horror
Lone Women by Victor LaValle

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Show threadAquila1nz Dec 31, 2023
The Faithless by CL Clark ๐Ÿ‘‘ Luca has returned to Balladaire to try and wrest the crown from her uncle, and then Touraine is sent as ambassador to the court. Surely they are too much at cross purposes to trust each other?
https://www.librarything.com/work/29558836/
#QueerSFF2023 @sapphicbooks
The Faithless by C.L. Clark

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Show threadAquila1nz Dec 31, 2023
To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose ๐Ÿ‰
Anequs is paired with the first baby dragon her people have seen in a long time, to keep Kasaqua safe she will need to go to a dragon school run by the Anglish, people who do not value Anequs' way of life. https://www.librarything.com/work/28680201/book/242215337
#QueerSFF2023 #QueerBooks #Polyamory #IndigenousFiction #Dragons
To shape a dragon's breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

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Show threadAquila1nz Dec 31, 2023
The Witches of Vardรธ by Anya Bergman ๐Ÿฏ The second book I've read based on the real life Norwegian witch trials in the far north. Includes a secondary character in a lesbian relationship.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29600516/book/243024627
#QueerSFF2023 #Witches
The witches of Vardรธ by Anya Bergman

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Show threadAquila1nz Dec 31, 2023
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling ๐Ÿ”ฆ
Gyre embarks on a high tech, high risk caving expedition, her only company the voice in her ear of a stranger monitoring her from above. https://www.librarything.com/work/22424036/
#QueerSFF2023 #Thriller
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

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Show threadAquila1nz Dec 31, 2023
Lost Places by Sarah Pinsker โ›บ contains a range of short stories moving between fatalism and hope. My favorite is the girls exchanging science facts on a camping trip.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29049232/
#QueerSFF2023 #ShortStories #LesbianFiction
Lost Places: and Other Stories by Sarah Pinsker

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Show threadAquila1nz Dec 31, 2023
If Tomorrow Doesn't Come by Jen St Jude โ˜„๏ธ 19 years old and feeling like she is failing at college, soccer and life; estranged from the best friend she is in love with, Avery is about to kill herself when a planet destroying asteroid is announced.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29693674/
#QueerSFF2023 #YoungAdult
If Tomorrow Doesn't Come by Jen St. Jude

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Show threadAquila1nz Dec 31, 2023
Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn ๐Ÿฐ A Beauty and the Beast like fantasy about a young woman choosing to be the periodic sacrifice taken by a local witch in 19th Century Germany. Bonus timey wimey curse. https://www.librarything.com/work/29239984/
#QueerSFF2023 @lgbtqbookstodon
Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn

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Show threadAquila1nz Dec 31, 2023
Furious Heaven by Kate Elliott ๐Ÿ”† Book 2 of the genderswapped Alexander the Great in space trilogy has more Sun/Hetty, and a whole lot of plot as Sun strikes into the heart of the Phene Empire. https://www.librarything.com/work/25888378/
#QueerSFF2023
Furious Heaven by Kate Elliott

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Show threadAquila1nz Dec 31, 2023
Audition by Pip Adam ๐Ÿš€ Three giants are crammed in a spaceship, having to choose between staying silent and growing, or talking and moving towards a possible destination. Can they confirm their shared past by talking it?
https://www.librarything.com/work/30310518/
#QueerSFF2023 #Polyamory #Incarceration
Audition by Pip Adam

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Show threadAquila1nz Dec 31, 2023
Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo ๐Ÿบ A researcher chooses to ride the mind of one of the last wild wolves, despite her wife's ethical qualms. Novella.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28514951/
#QueerSFF2023 #LesbianFiction #Wolves
Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo

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Show threadAquila1nz Jan 2, 2024
Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang ๐ŸŒ  Misery is a reluctant messiah in the space religon they have grown up repudiating.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27624657/
#QueerSFF2023
The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang

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Show threadAquila1nz Jan 2, 2024
Emergent Properties by Aimee Ogden ๐ŸŒ‘ A major part of groundbreaking AI Scorn's backstory is that zir two mothers have had a very acrimonious separation. Novella.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29097939/
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Emergent Properties by Aimee Ogden

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Show threadAquila1nz Jan 2, 2024
The First Bright Thing by J R Dawson ๐ŸŽช In an alternate history where magic sparks have altered the mid 20th century, three women take a young sister and brother into their circus.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28727116/
#QueerSFF2023
The First Bright Thing by JR Dawson

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Show threadAquila1nz Jan 2, 2024
Misrule by Heather Walter ๐Ÿงš This sequel to Malice is set 100 years later, as Alyce rules a Dark Court in the former Briar land while Aurora still sleeps.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27380154/
#QueerSFF2023 #YoungAdult #FairytaleReimagining
Misrule by Heather Walter

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