Upper elementary/middle school recs for my library kids

Books I'd recommend to the teens at my library

Where the audiobook production, narration and experience is so excellent it sucks you in and you can’t stop listening.

Romance and Erotica with primal play, chase scenes to be exact, because 🥵 Recs MORE than welcome, I can't get enough 🤤

Unlike my Dark Romance in Fantasy list, the darkness in these books is limited to the setting/world. The relationships are not dark (or at least dark enough to qualify as a dark romance).

everyone also squeals in delight whenever this shows up in a book, right? no? just me then?

If you spend enough time on the bookish internet, you may be led to believe that the sapphic novel was invented yesterday. In my attempt to dispel this notion, I am creating a series of lists that cover lesbian classics by decade!

1930s coming tomorrow.

Note: Not all of the authors/characters represented in these books are lesbians (as we would understand a lesbian today). Nonetheless, I’ve included them on this list due to their historical and cultural significance to the lesbian community.

These novels center around intense friendships between women. Are they queer? Maybe, maybe not. Either way these friendships are all consuming.

Books with very little forum posts, or completely empty forums. Some more hidden gems that you can help bring to the broader audience. I welcome any recs, of books under or around 50 forum posts, from the comments<3

As the title suggests, sci-fi and fantasy with sapphic protagonists (or really prominent/iconic sapphic characters).

A list of (mostly action) books about spies, secret agents, assassins, people faking their identities while bringing down a corrupt politician and jumping out of a window while bebop jazz plays in the background.

(Note: I haven't read all of these! And I'm always looking for more of these, so I'm totally open to recs :)! )

Just a list of my indie favorites 💗

I’ll be adding more as I go.

Queer fiction and non-fiction commonly banned in the US.

Nearly every page will have you mouth agape, at points gagging, or otherwise screaming into a pillow. All of them being non-fiction somehow makes it worse.

Books that made musicals

Black perspective

Books about true crime