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Favorite sapphic reads of 2021?
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I also loved Stars and the Blackness Between Them and Last Night at the Telegraph Club! Probably my favorite sapphic books I've read this year were She Who Became the Sun and A Memory Called Empire
I read On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden (graphic novel) earlier this year and it's one of my favourite books of all time now! Honestly, anything by Tillie Walden is fantastic, she just Gets it.The Crier's War duology has wonderfully magical steampunk vibes, with a lot of confused yearning.Gideon the Ninth also had a great atmosphere with all the chaotic bone magic going on. I loved the main characters in that and I can't wait to read the sequel. Hoping to get the paperback for Christmas!
Anne wrote: "I also loved Stars and the Blackness Between Them and Last Night at the Telegraph Club! Probably my favorite sapphic books I've read this year were She Who Became the Sun and [book:..."I'd never heard of A Memory Called Empire until now, it sounds great!! Added to my tbr :))
Hey! I haven’t read a lot of the books you have mentioned so I’ll definitely look them up to add to my tbr. I really enjoyed reading The Delicate Thing We Make by Milena McKay. I’m sure I’ll be re-reading this book for years to come.
Some top picks of mine:One Last Stop , Black Water Sister , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and The Midnight Lie and Gideon the Ninth
I haven’t really read the ones you listed, but I loved The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri and Crier’s War by Nina Varela this year ❤️
If we're limiting this to ones that were published in 2021, then I'll say The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Cool for the Summer!
My favorite sapphic books this year are milkfed by Melissa broder and a long way to a small angry planet by Becky chambers. Can anyone recommend adult sapphic contemporary romance??
One Last Stop - really starting to see Asians as love interests for protagonists. Refreshing and hilarious!Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - this got me in the feels, right in the guts.
She Who Became the Sun - The love scenes were steeeaaammy.
This is How You Lose the Time War - possibly the most romantic and poetic sci/fi fantasy I've read. I loved it so much, I then went through it again on audio, then reread it. It's short so it won't take long.
The Pull of the Stars - Historical fiction on midwives during the war. Really good and harrowing.
Written in the Stars - rom-com, so funny, endearing with lots of chemistry.
The Once and Future Witches - fantasy with witches and the suffragette movement. You go witchy feminists!
The Witch's Heart - Norse mythology. Skadi can be my girlfriend anytime.
She Drives Me Crazy - teenage romance, just the right amount of angst.
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain - an odd Chinese fairy tale. I didn't love it, but I appreciated its representation and the oddity of the story.
Hi everyone! I am currently reading The Tell Tale by Clare Ashton which I will be reviewing in my podcast tomorrow! Has anyone read the book? And if so what did you think?
TheHungryPageGobbler wrote: "One Last Stop - really starting to see Asians as love interests for protagonists. Refreshing and hilarious!Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - this got me in the feels, right in the guts.
She Who Be..."
YES! I read 'The pull of the stars' and 'This is how you lose the time war' last year, and they are both excellent, as is 'The Once and Future Witches', which I JUST finished. I don't think I've ever seen a book blend a fairytale feel with real-world issues quite so well, and the writing is beautiful. I'm actually pretty picky about romance, but I adored both Cleopatra Quinn and August Lee (love interests of Beatrice and Agnes Eastwood, respectively).
mine were criers war, bloom into you, and honey girl even tho i didn't finish it yet but its so good so far!!
Girls made of snow and glass! & cinderella is dead :)
My favorite sapphic reads of 2022 so far: - Breaking Character by Lee Winter
- The Love Factor by Quinn Ivins
- When You Least Expect It by Haley Cass
My favorite sapphic read of 2022 so far is "Not Good for Maidens" It was absolutely incredible.
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I'm new to this group, but I was wondering what you all read this year that you'd particularly recommend.
My top picks include:
- "A Master of Djinn" by P. Djeli Clark (Magical detective story in steampunk Cairo)
- "Gingerbread" by Helen Oyeyemi (Magical realism with black bisexual MC)
- "Wild Beauty" by Anna-Marie McLemore (Ditto, but MC is Mexican-American. Gorgeous flower imagery!)
- "In the Vanisher's Palace" by Aliette de Bodard (Vietnamese 'Beauty and the Beast' retelling with a lady dragon who isn't a jerk)
- "Mooncakes", by Suzanne Walker (cute graphic novel about witch and an NB werewolf)
- "An Unkindness of Ghosts" by River Solomon (kind of a dark sci-fi story about a generation ship with a social structure that resembles the antebellum south)
- "Last Night at the Telegraph Club" by Malinda Lo (Coming-of-age historical fiction with not-sad ending)
- "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Of course. Though personally I wish her Cuban background had been woven in a bit more strongly...)
- "The Stars and the Blackness between them" by Junauda Petrus (YA with some sick-lit and magical realism elements. Different aspects of Trinidadian and Black American culture included)