Recs if you like Broughtupsy...

this is your reminder to read books by Black authors all month, all year, every year— not just during Black History Month. it’s crucially important to be able to diversify your reading and your bookshelves. expand your mind, your perspectives, your knowledge, and your taste. if you don’t know where to start, here are some recommendations!

my personal wlw library so… a lot of classic lesbian lit, basically

Fiction featuring sisters, because sisters are the best. (Note that not all sister relationships are easy, they are complex and layered and sometimes difficult.)

Please leave your additions in the comments!

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.

canadian author emily r austin's recommended books, as taken from her website!

Mix of genres by queer authors from nations in North America and the Caribbean, set in (or partially in) the nation. Not every nation is represented yet—I'm still researching them! Keeping it at maximum 3 books per nation.

Antigua & Barbuda: Annie John Bahamas: If I Had Wings Canada: A Minor Chorus; Mohawk Trail Costa Rica: Crocodilopolis Cuba: Call Me Cassandra Dominican Republic: Tentacle Greenland: Last Night in Nuuk Honduras: Libertad Jamaica: Broughtupsy; Things I Have Withheld Mexico: How We Named the Stars* Panama: Stepmotherland Puerto Rico: This is the Only Kingdom; Bad Seed Trinidad and Tobago: Cereus Blooms at Night; The Dreaming United States: The Color Purple; Jonny Appleseed

(*) diaspora author

Fiction books set in Jamaica

Open to recs!