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There Has Never Been a Better Time To Read About Two Girls Falling in Love at the End of the World

The Last Bookstore on Earth is a YA dystopian novel set in a bookstore and full of sapphic yearning.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Feb 7, 2025

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interview

book features

Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick Are Co-Authoring Sapphic YA Romances While Balancing Motherhood

With a toddler and another baby on the way, Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick have to carve out space to keep making art together.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Oct 7, 2024

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featured

book features

Anarchist Author Margaret Killjoy Crafts Trans Worlds in the Woods

Margaret Killjoy is a master world-builder. Her first young adult book, The Sapling Cage, comes out next month.

Nico —

Aug 29, 2024

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‘A Bánh Mì for Two’ Is a Swoony Sapphic Romance Between Two Foodies

The story combines two of my favorite things: girls falling in love, and finding connection through food!

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Aug 23, 2024

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This New Queer YA Book Is for the Sports Gays AND the Newspaper Nerds

If you’re looking for a fun frenemies-to-lovers story, this is it.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Feb 28, 2024

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romance

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11 Queer Romance + YA Comfort Reads I Revisit on Bad Days

When I find myself needing comfort from the atrocities of being an adult, these are the books I usually turn to.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Jan 30, 2024

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horror

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Sapphic Yearning, Horror, and K-Pop Blend Perfectly in “Gorgeous Gruesome Faces”

I’ve never really been a horror girlie, but in recent months, I’ve found myself intrigued by YA books that have a horror element.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Dec 27, 2023

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thriller/mystery

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YA Favorite Jennifer Dugan’s Queer Thriller Debut Is a Lesson in Trauma

The Last Girls Standing gave me big Yellowjackets vibes.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Aug 23, 2023

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Leah Johnson’s Middle Grade Debut Will Take You Right Back to Seventh Grade

Ellie Engle Saves Herself isn’t solely for children. If you’ve ever found yourself on a journey of self understanding, you will see yourself in Ellie.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Jun 16, 2023

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Hayley Kiyoko

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Hayley Kiyoko’s Debut YA Novel Tells Queer Love Story Set in 2006

If I’m being honest, it’s one of the better written celebrity fiction novels that I’ve read (and I’ve read Lauren Conrad’s YA series).

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

May 29, 2023

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sci-fi/fantasy

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In Lesbian YA Debut, Teen Girls Find Love in the Midst of an Asteroid Barreling Toward Earth

The biggest theme in Jen St. Jude’s If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come is mental health.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

May 9, 2023

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thriller/mystery

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Autistic Teen Girl Takes On the Rich and Powerful in This Queer YA Thriller

This is Jen Wilde’s first thriller, but I hope not her last.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

May 8, 2023