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my first words were no live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality

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Booksmith sells online! They even have book mystery boxes based on other books you love. Let's show them (and others) that they made a good business AND moral choice.

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Books and comics with Butch/Masc protagonists or Love interests 🧡

I asked on IG for book recs, and these are the ones I got! Well, including a lil promo of my comic. In any case, I figured I would make a graphic for them. I love seeing recs laid out all nice.

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hello, I'm a queer author and, being very disabled and often too ill to watch TV or get out of bed, I read A Lot. This year, after deciding to stop reading anything I wasn't enjoying right away, I ended up reading SO MANY amazing books that really got me through it.

If YOU want to read more cool and/or gay books, I wrote some proper blogs about my favourites, what exactly I was most obsessed with, and whether you might like them too:

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More books, nuance and yelling at the links:

My favourite graphic novels /
Favourite books read in 2025

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what if we were girl best friends (you are the most beautiful woman ive ever seen) but you kept doing confusing shit like kissing me with the passion of a lover and telling me you loved me (even though we are not related?) and i found it disgusting but terribly compelling? what then???

go read sheridan le fanu's 28k lesbian vampire horror novel, published in 1872 !!! / follow for more historical & vampire yuri (i actually do have more)

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Vintage book covers and floral illustrations pngs!

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For more png/digital sticker sheets and inspo, check out my pinterest accounts!

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Ty <3

Short Story Recommendations

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These all fuck me up to a varying degree of emotions

Crime

• Philomel Cottage - Agatha Christie
• Lamb to the Slaughter - Roald Dahl
• Death and the Compass - Jorge Luis Borges

Horror

• The Landlady - Roald Dahl
• A Walk in the Dark - Arthur C Clarke
• The Wife’s Story - Ursula K Le Guin
• The Veldt - Ray Bradbury
• The Hanging Stranger - Philip K Dick
• The Colour out of Space - H P Lovecraft
• The Spider - Hanns Heinz Ewers

Sad

• The Life You Save May Be Your Own - Flannery O’Connor
• A Small, Good Thing - Raymond Carver
• Cathedral - Raymond Carver
• The Haunted Boy - Carson McCullers
• The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Chef - Andy Weir
• The Martyr - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
• Jambula Tree - Monica Arak de Nyeko
• The Rats Do Sleep At Night - Wolfgang Borchert

Sci-Fi

• Love is the Plan the Plan is Death - James Tiptree Jr
• The Last Question - Isaac Asimov
• The Nine Billion Names of God - Arthur C Clarke
• The Star - Arthur C Clarke
• Reunion - Arthur C Clarke
• The Commuter - Philip K Dick
• Exhibit Piece - Philip K Dick
• To Serve Man - Damon Knight
• Brothers Beyond the Void - Paul W Fairman

What the Fuck?! 

• The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
• A Collapse of Horses - Brian Evenson
• Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby - Donald Barthelme
• Hopeful Monsters - Hiromi Goto
• The Box Social - James Reaney
• He-y come on ou-t - shinichi hoshi
  
• The Garden of Forking Paths - Jorge Luis Borges
• Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang (just the entire collection bro)

Other

• Broken Routine - Jeffrey Archer
• A Man Who Had No Eyes - Mackinlay Kantor
  
• Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been - Joyce Carol Oates
• The Lady, or the Tiger - Frank R Stockton
• The Continuity of Parks - Julio Cortázar
• The Dinner Party - Mona Gardner
• A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Gabriel García Márquez
  
• On Exactitude in Science - Jorge Luis Borges

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ok I think y’all are ready to see transgender Frankenstein’s monster I did for class

podcastlesbian

LittlePuss Press, a feminist trans women run press with some incredible publications is having a Special Sale until the end of the year.

All their backlist ebooks are on sale for $10 (link).

This includes:

• Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers (Portable Edition) ed. Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett
• Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili
• Girlfriends by Emily Zhou
• Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix by Katherine Cross
• Realistic Fiction by Anton Solomonik
• Worthy of the Event: An Essay by Vivian Blaxell
• Gendertrash From Hell: The First Print Collection of the Zine That Changed Everything ed. Mirha-Soleil Ross

Their paperbacks are also on sale, so if you want to give yourself or someone else the gift of a really cool bookshelf you can do so here (link).

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@thetransfemininereview I don't know if you've seen this on bluesky already, but if you could reblog this here, that would be really cool :).

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Friendly reminder that bookshop.org has free shipping this weekend and they give more than 80% of their profit margins to 1,900+ independent bookstores! Also, they have great curated rec lists.

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If you need ideas, I have several hyper-specific rec lists! They're not affiliate links or anything; I'm just Like This.

• Books I'm Always Yelling at People to Read
• Solitary Woman in a Creepy House
• We're Sacrificing a Girl to the Unknown for the Sake of the Village
• Books That WIll Make You Want to Be a Scribe or a Scholar or an Archivist or Something idk
• There's a Ghost Living Here and We're Not Sure What to Do About It
• Fantasy Where There's Romance but I Wouldn't Call It a Romantasy
• Being a Writer Is Rough Sometimes
• I Just Think Birds Are Neat
• Incredible Non-Fiction & Memoirs
• Oh God It's So Cold. Why Do We Live Here
• Books That Make Good Gifts
• Found Family
• Cozy Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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I'm going to shamelessly self-promote. the first run of Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die, with gold foil and printed edges, is included in the Black Friday sale!

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getting alphabetized probably feels good as fuck for a bookshelf

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I just want to let you guys know Cornell's entire library is open access (no permissions required) and there are (shocker) many books...

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Historical fiction to check out, listed by region

PART 1

Historical fiction doesn’t get as much love here as SFF which I get. Realism isn’t for everyone, and revisiting violent history isn’t exactly escapism. But please, give it another chance especially the amazing work from writers beyond the Anglo-Euro sphere.

And so, here’s my first set of recommendations for historical fiction. I say ‘first’ because if I included every book I like, this post would be way too long and some regions are lacking for that very reason! I promise that the next set of recommendations will cover other countries!

There’s no special formula behind these picks. The only real criterion is that I like them. That’s it. I did try to avoid super-popular authors, but as you’ll see, one or two still slipped in!

AFRICA

The Theocrat by Bensalem Himmich

When I first read The Theocrat by Bensalem Himmich, I had no idea it was one of the most popular Arab novels in the 20th century. It tells the story of a Fatimid caliph popularly known to some as the Nero of Egypt, tracing his rise to power, his ruthless rule exacerbated by his own mental illness, and his eventual downfall. It's a truly fascinating work because it doesn't really tell the story in a conventional, straightforward manner.

River Spirit by Leila Aboulela

Set in 1880s Sudan during the Mahdist War against Anglo-Turkish forces, the novel follows key figures in the fight for independence and the women who witnessed the turmoil. It’s surprisingly underrated, I spotted copies in a remainder bookshop.

ASIA

Silence by Shusaku Endo

I’ve raved about this book and yes, I cried over it but it still doesn’t get the love it deserves in my opinion, even after Scorsese made it a film. Silence follows a young Jesuit priest in 17th-century Japan, searching for his mentor while enduring brutal persecution and a crisis of faith.

Insurrecto by Gina Apostol

I was a bit hesitant to include Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto here because it’s technically about modern-day Filipino filmmakers trying to make a movie about the genocide Americans committed in the Philippines. But the story flashes back to those bloody events so often that I’m counting it as historical fiction and a very important one at that.

EUROPE

The Throne by Franco Bernini

The Throne, written by the screenwriter of The Grey Zone, has the rich, political vibe of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy but instead of Tudors, it explores the complicated relationship between Machiavelli and Borgia. It’s the first in a planned trilogy.

Like a Sword Wound by Ahmet Altan

Knowing that Ahmet Altan was imprisoned in Turkey for criticizing Erdogan, advocating for Kurdish rights, and memorializing the Armenian Genocide is reason enough for me to pick up this book. The first novel in Ahmet Altan’s Ottoman Quartet, this immersive epic is set in the final decades of the Ottoman Empire and follows an unforgettable cast of characters who not only witness but also help drive the empire’s unstoppable decline.

AMERICAS

James by Percival Everett

This is one of those rare recent books that actually deserves the hype and the awards. It retells the Mississippi journey from Jim’s point of view. And yes, James is the same Jim from Huckleberry Finn, finally getting his own story.

Hilda Hurricane by Robert Drummond

I loved the telenovela, so I read the novel and it’s just as good as the famous TV adaptation. Told through the eyes of a communist narrator clearly modeled after the author, it follows his involvement with a popular sex worker who falls in love with his friar friend in the years leading up to Brazil’s 1964 coup d’état.

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There's been a lot of discussion on my dash about the underrepresentation of transfemmes recently, and I don't watch enough TV and movies to contribute to that aspect of the discussion, but I figured now would be as good a time as any to highlight some of my favorite transfemme books!

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