And here's all the Queer Speculative Fiction I read in 2022 in one tidy post: https://aquila1nz.dreamwidth.org/39197.html
#QueerSFF2022 #LesbianBooks

The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper by AJ Fitzwater 🏴‍☠️ A collection of whimsical tales about the adventures of a lesbian capybara pirate.
https://www.librarything.com/work/24335636/ #QueerSFF2022 And done, Happy New Year from Aotearoa!
#Anthropomorphism #Capybara #TransBooks #NZBooks @sapphicbooks

Alice Payne Rides by Kate Heartfield ⌛ Another enjoyable sequel, Alice, highway woman turned time traveller, rides again, with her inventive companion Jane. Novella.
https://www.librarything.com/work/22472408/ #QueerSFF2022
#TimeTravel #LesbianBooks #AlternateHistory @lesfic

The Scratch Daughters by HA Clarke 🖋️ The second half of the story of Sideways - outcast witch admitted to the cool girl clique and hunted by evangelical witchfinders - is just as prickly and riotous and clever, and even more queer.
https://www.librarything.com/work/25708162/ #QueerSFF2022
#YoungAdult #TransBooks #QueerBooks @sapphicbooks

The Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow 🦉 3 sisters bring forgotten witchery back to New Salem; one was banished from home for dallying with the preacher's daughter. Women's magic isn't gender bound, except by convention and need.
https://www.librarything.com/work/24355380/ #QueerSFF2022
#TransBooks #Witches #HistoricalFantasy #AlternateHistory #LostLibraries @lesfic

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth 🐝 Several girls died during the Happenings at Brookhants Academy in 1902, now Harper Harper, Audrey and Merritt are part of filming it. So many lesbians in this that it can get away with certain tropes.
Bonus, that's the best celesbian name ever.
https://www.librarything.com/work/24504511/ #QueerSFF2022
#BookRecs #LesbianBooks #Gothic #YellowJackets #Celesbian #BlairWitchProject #Meta #MaryMacLane @sapphicbooks

Even Though I Knew the End by CL Polk 🕵️‍♀️ 🐦️ This is noir fantasy with a heart: as 1940s Chicago detective Helen takes on one last infernal case her girlfriend Edith hopes they can move to San Francisco and start a new life.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27947077/ #QueerSFF2022
#Booktodon #BookRecs #SFFBookClub #LesbianFiction @bookstodon

The Language of Roses by Heather Rose Jones 🌹 This really is a Beauty and The Beast reimagining, exploring the stories that gets told versus what actually happened. With ace rep and a lesbian couple.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28078140/ #QueerSFF2022
#AceFiction #LesbianFiction @lesfic

The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by CM Waggoner 🐀 👒 ⚗️ Petty con-artist and firewitch Delly takes on a protection job and meets troll-born gentlelady Winn as they start a complicated con to capture a murdering drug supplier.
https://www.librarything.com/work/24839454/ #QueerSFF2022
#LesbianFantasy @sapphicbooks

The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik 🌇 I'm delighted to get to add this because El doesn't just spend the whole book pining for Orion. The "why would you send your kids to a magic school where they are at risk of dying" series, start at book 1
https://www.librarything.com/work/27396351/ #QueerSFF2022
#Booktodon #BookRecs #SFFBookClub @bookstodon

High Times in the Low Parliament by Kelly Robson 🧚 This cheerful romp is set in an all female England controlled by fairies, Lana is a womanizing scribe bent on living the high life who gets shanghaied into working at an imperiled Parliament. https://www.librarything.com/work/27116107/ #QueerSFF2022
#BookRecs #LesbianFiction #SapphicMigration @sapphicbooks

Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles ☸️ Astrid returns to the space station she was born on, Darling escapes to it. And then there are space ghosts. Haunting poetry written in a Scottish dialect from the Orkneys.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27190087/ #QueerSFF2022
#Poetry #Booktodon #BookRecs #LesbianBooks @bookstodon

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 🍔 Do we the rabid fans now know more? While Nona knows even less? With Xena levels of "Did your faves actually kiss?" And bonus gender fun thanks to the ongoing game of musical bodies. Read Gideon first. https://www.librarything.com/work/26944396/ #QueerSFF2022
#NonaTheNinth #TheLockedTomb #BookRecs #LesbianBooks #SapphicMigration @lgbtqbookstodon

The Actual Star by Monica Byrne 🇧🇿 Mayan past, present and a transhuman future of humanity in Cayo, Belize, set 1000 years apart as humanity look to the past to choose their future. Includes future approaches to gender and orientation. https://www.librarything.com/work/26678762/ #QueerSFF2022
#Bookstodon #BookRecs #QueerBooks @bookstodon #Belize

Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield 🐴 Glorious time travel novella about an English highwaywoman and her inventor companion.
https://www.librarything.com/work/22460913/ #QueerSFF2022 #BookRecs #LesbianFiction @sapphicbooks @bookstodon

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean 📖 Meeting Hester might ensure Devon's escape from her controlling Book Eating family, if they can trust each other, but Devon will do anything, no matter how terrible, to save her son. Almost more horror than wainscot fantasy, very readable https://www.librarything.com/work/26860896/ #QueerSFF2022

Lifelode by Jo Walton 🏰 This domestic fantasy from 2009 is set in an everyone is polyamorous world, the f/f relationship in it is secondary, but the world changing stakes are very relevant. Read it! https://www.librarything.com/work/7955412/ #QueerSFF2022

A Mirror Mended by Alix Harrow 👑 In this A Spindle Splintered sequel Zinnia's surfing through Sleeping Beauty stories problemsolving when she encounters an unnamed Evil Queen in a mirror and her understanding of fairy tales starts to change https://www.librarything.com/work/27144082/ #QueerSFF2022
#Booktodon #WLWbooks @bookstodon

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo 🧜 is Golden Age Hollywood running on sacrifice and ancient magic; Luli Wei bargains her way into a chance at stardom, but the monstrous roles she is assigned may eat her alive. https://www.librarything.com/work/24975572/ #QueerSFF2022

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield 🦑 Mara's wife Lissa departs on a short submarine trip and doesn't return for 6 months. More weird and horror adjacent than scifi or fantasy. https://www.librarything.com/work/27318233/ #QueerSFF2022 #Booktodon #WLWbooks #QueerBooks @sapphicbooks