Recs if you like Butter Honey Pig Bread...

Basically, a huge list of books from all genres featuring sapphic characters, whether bisexual, lesbian, butch, femme, or anything in between.

Includes fiction and nonfiction. Books with spice, and books with very little romance alike. You may find epic lady knights, pirates, ancient vampires or just weird girl adventures, heartbreaking stories or cozy books of found family and queer joy. Memoirs, historical fiction, instruction manuals, maybe even a poem or two.

Welcoming suggestions<3

Time to take a trip to the supermarket to pick up our groceries for the week!

This list features books that have titles of food you could buy at the store.

As always, open to suggestions! 🤠

Literary fiction, historical fiction, memoirs, and/or poetry by queer authors from nations in Africa, set in the nation. Not every nation is represented yet—I'm still researching them! Keeping it at maximum 3 books per nation.

Cameroon: These Letters End in Tears Egypt: Shubeik Lubeik; In the Spider's Room Equatorial Guinea: La Bastarda Ethiopia: The History of a Difficult Child Ghana: No One Dies Yet; Before We Hit the Ground* Kenya: Stories of our Lives; For What are Butterflies Without Their Wings Morocco: Infidels Nigeria: Under the Udala Trees; Butter Honey Pig Bread; An Ordinary Wonder Somalia: Fairytales for Lost Children South Africa: They Called Me Queer; A Soft Landing; The Quiet Violence of Dreams Uganda: Everything is Fine Here Zambia: The Lions' Den Zimbabwe: The Hairdresser of Harare

(*) diaspora author

an engaging collection that captures the depth and diversity of African storytelling, blending tradition, history, and modern life through powerful voices.

For people who want to dip toes in Nigerian literature.

Any sapphic book that I feel falls in the category of lit fic

Books where black lesbians and black lesbian relationships are center stage.

if you can eats it, it goes on the list

Yes, that has been said to me. 😐 Fiction featuring Black characters that are also queer. :)

Celebrating Canadian authors, with an emphasis on fiction. I'm also trying to include a lot of Indigenous authors in this list! Open to suggestions.

"Weird girl literature" featuring sapphic characters

💜 yarnandbooks

Books read by Prose Before Bros, a book club for women of color in PDX

Warning: these reads may cause sudden cravings

"Weird girl literature" by BIPoC authors and/or featuring BIPoC experiences

💜 yarnandbooks

the complicated inheritance of being someone's daughter. maternal wounds, generational trauma, inherited neuroses, impossible expectations, and the many ways love can leave a mark. mothers we love, resent, misunderstand, and spend a lifetime trying to figure out. daughters caught between becoming their mothers, disappointing them, and figuring out who they are without them. // some family issues require a little more than a family group chat.

— suggestions always welcome!

weird gay shit, lots of genre and gender bending, probably no fantasy

don't read unless you want to cry an ocean of tears

What are you buying at the grocery store? This list includes books that are titled after food, spanning all genres and topics. I think it's interesting how food symbolism can be used to explore themes of family, culture, status, and more. Please leave any recommendations so we can continue adding to our grocery list. (Note: I did try to limit titles to only include food. For example, I included "Lemon" but not "As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow". But I'm open to repeating titles. I mean, there are different brands for a reason ;)