sapphic books

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar • 2019

HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA<br/><br/>NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA<br/><br/>ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019<br/><br/>Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.<br/><br/>In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked “Burn before reading. Signed, Blue.”<br/><br/>So begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that stretches through the vast reaches of time and space.<br/><br/>Red belongs to the Agency, a post-singularity technotopia. Blue belongs to Garden, a single vast consciousness embedded in all organic matter. Their pasts are bloody and their futures mutually exclusive. They have nothing in common—save that they’re the best, and they’re alone.<br/><br/>Now what began as a battlefield boast grows into a dangerous game, one both Red and Blue are determined to win. Because winning’s what you do in war. Isn’t it?<br/><br/>A tour de force collaboration from two powerhouse writers that spans the whole of time and space.

Godslayers

Zoe Hana Mikuta • 2022

The Henna Wars

Adiba Jaigirdar • 2020

<p><b>"Impossible to put down." - <i>Kirkus</i>, starred review </b><br><br>Nishat doesn’t want to lose her family, but she also doesn’t want to hide who she is, and it only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life. Flávia is beautiful and charismatic, and Nishat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, both Flávia and Nishat decide to showcase their talent as henna artists. In a fight to prove who is the best, their lives become more tangled—but Nishat can’t quite get rid of her crush, especially since Flávia seems to like her back. <br><br>As the competition heats up, Nishat has a decision to make: stay in the closet for her family, or put aside her differences with Flávia and give their relationship a chance.</p>

Gearbreakers

Zoe Hana Mikuta • 2021

The Jasmine Throne

Tasha Suri • 2021

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo • 2021

Winner of the National Book Award<br/>A New York Times Bestseller<br/><br/>"The queer romance we’ve been waiting for.”—Ms. Magazine<br/><br/>Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible.<br/><br/>But America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.<br/><br/>(Cover image may vary.)