Recs if you like You Better Be Lightning...

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

Shorter books (under 200 pages) that are part of at least one quest. Many are also in the public domain, making them easily accessible when you want to grind for that next badge.

Reading suggestions for the Trans Rights Readathon! (Any year of course). Books with trans characters of any label (or any non-cis gender identity) by trans/non-cis authors. I have not read all the books in this list. Feel free to name your fave books by trans authors in the comments!

pink, sophisticated & sometimes fatale <3 curating the personality of my aspirations (added some essential nonfic & poetry!)

Poetry books written by trans, genderqueer, two spirit + writers.

Recommendations encouraged 🏳️‍⚧️🫶⚧️

Poetry books written by Disabled, Deaf, Neurodivergent, Ill poets.

A list of poetry collections by trans and non-binary authors.

This includes gender fluid, agender, two-spirit, and any other gender identities outside of the binary labels.

See my trans Rights readathon suggestions masterlist for more trans reads! 🏳️‍⚧️

(Under construction 🏗 🚧 many more books to be added! Suggestions welcome!)

You get a pronoun, and you get a pronoun! EVERYBODY GETS A PRONOUN! A list of queer books with a pronoun in the title.

Brought to you via taking a page out of @moski’s book.

hopeful nonfiction!

poetry collections from queer poets <333

Queer poetry to make you feel

book club book picks

English and French queer/2SLGBTQIA+ authors and/or storylines across all genres and formats that I read and loved, to help you pick your next queer book!

dive into some* of the most influential queer poets. read one poem at a time, devour whole collections, whatever. just approach openly and leave changed

*please request additions!!

books with lyme disease rep (or by authors who have had lyme/chronic lyme). curated by a chronic lyme spoonie!

(also pretty much what it says on the tin)

Whether it's a vision of a brighter futures, everyday helpers, or simply books that leave us feeling more hopeful about humankind than when we started, this is an ongoing collection of books that feel like a candle in the dark, a constellation to guide us forward 💌

An ever-evolving list of poetry collections by poets who made their name via the Slam community.