Winners of the lammies

Fiction - Lesbian
* The Night Watch, Sarah Waters (Riverhead Books)

Debut Fiction - Lesbian
* The Teahouse Fire, Ellis Avery (Riverhead)

Mystery - Lesbian
* The Art of Detection, Laurie R. King (Bantam)

Poetry - Lesbian
* Lemon Hound, Sina Queyras (Coach House Books)

Romance - Lesbian
* Fresh Tracks, Georgia Beers (Bold Strokes)

Memoir/Biography - Lesbian
* Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin)

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2020!

Our lesbian book club 2020 reading list! January : The Song of the Sea by Edmontonian and book club member (we’re so proud!) Jenn Alexander. Jenn will be there to chat with us! February : Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis. About five very different women in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship. March : Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway. This is the bisexual, trans, Anishinaabe and Métis author’s third collection of poetry. April : Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki, Toronto writer. This graphic novel gives back story on Harley Quinn before The Joker. May : The Mystics of Mile End by Sigal Samuel. This Montreal born author’s first novel delves into the heart of Jewish mysticism, faith and family. June : nîtisânak by Lindsay Nixon, Cree-Métis-Saulteaux writer. Their first novel is a groundbreaking memoir spanning nations and queer love stories. July : Flèche by Mary Jean Chan. This Hong Kong raised, London author explores multilingualism, queerness, psychoanalysis an...

2022 Reading List!!!

2022 Edmonton Lesbian+ Book Club Reading Line Up January: Iron Goddess of Mercy by Larissa Lai (American-born Chinese Canadian lesbian writer); 2021 epic poem February: The Gospel of Breaking by Jillian Christmas (Black Canadian lesbian writer); 2020 poetry collection March: You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat (LGBTQ Palestinian American writer); 2020 novel April: Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto (queer Japanese Canadian writer), illustrated by Ann Xu (Asian American artist); 2021 graphic novel May: Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen (asexual Asian American writer); 2020 non-fiction June: Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai (American queer disabled WOC writer); 2021 non-fiction July: Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante (White Canadian queer trans writer); 2019 novel August: 47,000 Beads by Koja Adeyoha (Indigenous-Oglala Lakota, two-spirit lesbian writer) and...

2019 lineup!

Hey everybody. We tried something different. Had a get-together. Selected all the books for 2019 together. P.S. We decided for 2019 we will read only authors that are queer women of colour. And, here's our list: January: It's Not Like it's a Secret by Misa Sugiura February: The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde March: The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai April: A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby and Mary Louisa Plummer May: Bingo Love by Tee Franklin June: A God Dance in Human Cloth by Nasra and hopefully something by Shima Robinson (Dwemminnen) July: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom August: This Accident of Being Lost by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson September: Marriage of a Thousand Lies by S.J. Sindu October: ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral History by LGBT Latino Immigrants by Juliana Delgado Lopera November: Eve O...

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