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mandameow🌈📚 (she/they)
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Just your friendly neighborhood traumatized queer bibliophile.

I post queer books 🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️


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I just reread this for my queer book club and remembered all the reasons I nominated it in the first place!

"Bury Your Gays" by Chuck Tingle

🌈📚💙🏳️‍🌈 #queerbooks #booksky #queerhorror #diversebooks
Book cover for "Bury Your Gays" by Chuck Tingle
October 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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"Everyone wants to see a witch punish someone for stealing from her. A witch is a kind of justice in the world. It makes for a fine story. No one wants to admit the truth for all it stares them plainly in the face. Steal from a woman long enough, and a witch is what she'll become."

🌈📚💙 #queerbooks
Book cover for "The River Has Roots" by Amal El-Mohtar, featuring a bonus short story from which the quote is taken: "John Hollowback and the Witch"
July 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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I love when I pick up a book that I don't expect to be queer and instead find at least a little queerness. One of the main characters is Ace! Not a huge subplot, but this hisfic was fascinating enough showing how the loss of democracy in Iran affected women.

🌈📚💙 #diversebooks #acebooks #booksky
Book cover for "The Lion Women of Tehran" by Marjan Kamali
June 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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I may be a traumatized shut-in who is terrified of crowds, but I am there with you today in spirit. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

#NOKINGS #YASQUEENS
A protest picture with "NO KINGS" in black lettering on a red background at the top, and "YAS QUEENS" in rainbow colored lettering against a black background. There is a crown in trans flag colors resting on the Q in queens
June 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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I am 1000% here for Chuck Tingle's expansion into queer horror. I even got my queer book club to add "Bury Your Gays" to our lineup!

I just finished "Straight" and it had just the right mix of humor, horror, and social commentary.

🌈📚💙 #queerbooks #booksky #queerhorror #diversebooks
Book cover collage of Chuck Tingle's horror creations, including "Camp Damascus" "Bury Your Gays" and "Straight"
June 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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My May reads!

This month is was the romances that stood out, particularly Space Ace, Pantom and Rook, and Triple Sec.

The Duke Who Steals Hearts was delightfully macabre, and Hamajang suprised me by being a heist book I actually liked.

💙📚🌈🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️ #queerbooks #diversebooks #transbooks #sapphicbooks
mandameow's May 2025 book cover collage, featuring: "Triple Sec" by TJ Alexander "Somadina" by Akwaeke Emezi "Grave Expectations" by Alice Bell "Hammajang Luck" by by Makana Yamamoto "The Fate of Stars" S. D. Simper "Boy Island" by Leo Fox "How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures" by Sabrina Imbler "The Space Ace of Mangleby Flat" by Larre Bildeston "The Devil Wears Tartan" by Katia Rose "The Prince Without Sorrow" by Maithree Wijesekara "A Gentleman's Gentleman" by TJ Alexander "Rosewater" by Liv Little "Prince of the Palisades" by Julian Winters "Fairest: A Memoir" by Meredith Talusan "Phantom and Rook" by Aelina Isaacs "House of Hunger" by Alexis Henderson "When the Tides Held the Moon" by Venessa Vida Kelley "Twisted Shadows" by Allie Therin "The Name-Bearer" by Natalia Hernandez "The Follower of Flowers" by Natalia Hernandez "The Daughter of Danray" by Natalia Hernandez "The Relationship Mechanic" by Karmen Lee "The Broposal" by Sonora Reyes "The Duke Steals Hearts & Other Body Parts" by Elias Cold "The Worm and His Kings" by Hailey Piper "Even the Worm Will Turn" by Hailey Piper "Taiwan Travelogue" by Yang Jo-tzu
June 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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I don't recall who gave me this recommendation, but THANK YOU!

I'd love to see this mm urban romantasy animated to fully appreciate the magic rich world building.

"Phantom and Rook" by Aelina Isaacs

🌈📚💙🏳️‍🌈📚 #queerbooks #diversebooks #booksky
Illustrated cover for "Phantom and Rook: When An Immortal Falls In Love With A Witch" by Aelina Isaacs, featuring two men noticing each other in a crowd.
May 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Queer books I read in April!

I was particularly floored by "How to Tell When We Will Die" and "Daughters of the Deer" but there is some spectacular scifi and fantasy here too!

🌈📚💙🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️ #queerbooks #booksky #diversebooks #sapphicbooks
Mandameow's book cover collage of queer books read in April: "The Last Bookstore on Earth" by Lily Braun-Arnold "Murder by Memory" by Olivia Waite "The Bones Beneath My Skin" by TJ Klune "The Faithless" by C. L. Clark "Infamous" by Lex Croucher "Cleat Cute" by Meryl Wilsner "Last to Leave the Room" by Caitlin Starling "The Wicked and the Willing" by Lianyu Tan "The Assassin's Guide to Babysitting" by Natalie C. Parker "The Headmistress" by Milena McKay "I Might Be in Trouble" Daniel Aleman "To Shape a Dragon's Breath" by Moniquill Blackgoose "The Battle Drum" by Saara El-Arifi "How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom" by Johanna Hedva "Ocean's Godori" by Elaine U. Cho "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Sáenz "A Game of Hearts and Heists" Book by Ruby Roe "Guava Flavored Lies" by J J Arias "Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories" by Charlie Jane Anders "The Ending Fire" by Saara El-Arifi "We Could Be Rats" by Emily Austin "Private Rites" by Julia Armfield "Cursebound" by Saara El-Arifi "Fable For the End of the World" by Ava Reid "Womb City" by Tlotlo Tsamaase "Nimona" by ND Stevenson "Hungerstone" by Kat Dunn "The Chosen and the Beautiful" by Nghi Vo "Don't Sleep with the Dead" by Nghi Vo "Daughters of the Deer" by Danielle Daniel "In the Shadow of Spindrift House" by Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire
May 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
mandameow.bsky.social
I finished this yesterday, and I am still not OK. 💔

Powerful, devastating, and utterly gripping.

"Daughters of the Deer" by Danielle Daniel

🌈📚💙🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️ #queerbooks #two-spirit #diversebooks #booksky #Indigenous
Illustrated cover for "Daughters of the Deer" by Danielle Daniel, festering two Indigenous women seen from behind gazing ahead at the sky where there is a large moon or sun taking up a large part of the image.
April 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
mandameow.bsky.social
What a fantastic book. I'm still coming to terms with what it means to live with disability.

Anyone have more recommendations for books about queer + disabled intersectionality?

"How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom" by Johanna Hedva

🌈📚💙 #queerbooks #diversebooks #booksky
Illustrated cover for "How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom" by Johanna Hedva
April 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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I left it off by accident! "Us" by Sara Soler, a sweet graphic novel by a queer woman about her partner's transition
Cover for "Us" by Sara Soler
April 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Queer Books I read in March!

There were so many good ones!

I am an SFF reader at heart so I was most excited by the various fantasy series, particularly "The Final Strife" and "Iron Widow"

🌈📚💙🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️ #queerbooks #booksky #diversebooks #marchwrapup
mandameow's March Wrap-up of queer books, featuring: "Those Fatal Flowers" by Shannon Ives "Where Shadows Bloom" by Catherine Bakewell "The Lost Story" by Meg Shaffer "Rules for Ghosting" by Shelly Jay Shore "Bad Habit" by Alana Portero "The Lamb" by Lucy Rose "The Death of Vivek Oji" by Akwaeke Emezi "The Unbroken" by C. L. Clark "Us" by Sara Soler "Honey Girl" by Morgan Rogers "I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com" by Kimberly Lemming "Dead Girls Don't Dream" by Nino Cipri "All the Hearts You Eat" by Hailey Piper "The Unbroken" by C. L. Clark "Blackward" by Lawrence Lindell "The Tea Dragon Society" by Kay O'Neill "At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender" by Shou Arai "Why I Was Late" by Charlie Petch "Iron Widow" by Xiran Jay Zhao "Hide" by Kiersten White "Tea You at the Altar" by Rebecca Thorne "Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars" by Kai Cheng Thom "Mooncakes" by Joamette Gil and Suzanne Walker "Pirates of Aletharia" by Britney Jackson "Witches" by Brenda Lozano "Women of the Post" Joshunda Sanders "The Final Strife" by Saara El-Arifi "All Boys Aren't Blue" by George M. Johnson "The Monster of Elendhaven" by Jennifer Giesbrecht "The Pairing" by Casey McQuiston "Sorcery and Small Magics" by Maiga Doocy "I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me" by Jamison Shea "Faebound" by Saara El-Arifi "Second Chances in New Port Stephen" by TJ Alexander "Heavenly Tyrant" by Xiran Jay Zhao "Continuum" by Chella Man Still in progress: "The Faithless" by C. L. Clark "How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom" by Johanna Hedva "Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories" by Charlie Jane Anders
April 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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I left off a cover! "Us" by Sara Soler, a sweet graphic novel by a queer woman anout her partner's transition
Cover for "Us" by Sara Soler
April 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Trans Rights Readathon 2025!

I had a rough month, but I had a lot of help getting through it all with these great reads featuring trans main characters and/or authors!

🌈📚💙🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️ #transrightsreadathon #TRR25 #queerbooks #transbooks #diversebooks #booksky
mandameow's March Trans Rights Readathon book cover collage featuring: "Dead Girls Don't Dream" by Nino Cipri "All the Hearts You Eat" by Hailey Piper "The Unbroken" by C. L. Clark "The Death of Vivek Oji" by Akwaeke Emezi "Bad Habit" by Alana Portero "The Faithless" by C. L. Clark "How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom" by Johanna Hedva "Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories" by Charlie Jane Anders "The Pairing" by Casey McQuiston "Second Chances in New Port Stephen" by TJ Alexander "Heavenly Tyrant" by Xiran Jay Zhao "Continuum" by Chella Man "The Tea Dragon Society" by Kay O'Neill "I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me" by Jamison Shea "Faebound" by Saara El-Arifi "All Boys Aren't Blue" by George M. Johnson "The Final Strife" by Saara El-Arifi "Mooncakes" by Joamette Gil and Suzanne Walker "Witches" by Brenda Lozano "Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars" by Kai Cheng Thom "Iron Widow" by Xiran Jay Zhao "Why I Was Late" by Charlie Petch "Us" by Sara Soler "Blackward" by Lawrence Lindell "At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender" by Shou Arai "Rules for Ghosting" by Shelly Jay Shore "Phoenix Gets Greater" by Marty Wilson-Trudeau
March 31, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Trans Rights readathon bonus category books I've read since my last update!

I've been keeping busy...

🌈📚💙🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️ #queerbooks #transrightsreadathon #TRR25 #booksky #diversebooks #transbooks
Trans Rights Readathon bonus category book cover collage featuring: "Witches" by Brenda Lozano Translated by Heather Cleary; latinx, author from another country, Indigenous gender identity "All the Hearts You Eat" by Hailey Piper; horror, transfemme "Why I Was Late" by Charlie Petch, poetry, enby "Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars" by Kai Cheng Thom, YA, transfemme, fantasy "Phoenix Gets Greater" by Marty Wilson-Trudeau. Children's, Indigenous gender identity "Mooncakes" by Joamette Gil and Suzanne Walker; graphic novel, YA, enby "Iron Widow" by Xiran Jay Zhao, Asian diaspora author, disability representation, enby author "The Unbroken" Novel by C. L. Clark, enby author, disability representation, intersectional, fantasy "All Boys Aren't Blue" by George M. Johnson; memior, enby, YA
March 23, 2025 at 4:16 AM
mandameow.bsky.social
Quite possibly the best bi4bi I've ever read! And with enby representation!

"The Pairing" by Casey McQuiston

🌈📚💙🌶📚🏳️‍⚧️ #queerbooks #booksky #diversebooks #trr25 #transrightsreadathon
Illustrated cover for "The Pairing" by Casey McQuiston, featuring two androgynous figures kissing. They are drawn without facial features and have very similar haircuts and shirts.
March 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Graphic Novels for the Trans Rights Readathon! Featuring trans characters and/or trans authors

They come from 4 different countries and meet a few other bonus categories as well!

🌈📚💙🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️
#transrightsreadathon #TRR25 #queerbooks #booksky #transbooks
Collage of graphic novel covers including: "Us" by Sara Soler "At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender" by Shou Arai "The Tea Dragon Society" by Kay O'Neill "Blackward" by Lawrence Lindell
March 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
mandameow.bsky.social
Great anxiety/depression rep! So much of this book was eerily close to stuff I'm going through, except unfortunately, the drunkenly marrying a manic pixie dream girl in vegas part. I might have to book a trip... 🤔😜

"Honey Girl" by Morgan Rogers

🌈📚💙🧡📚🌶 #queerbooks #sapphicbooks #booksky #lesfic
Illustrated cover for "Honey Girl" Book by Morgan Rogers, featuring a mixed race woman with brown skin and curly honey colored hair.
March 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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My theme this week is apparently emotionally devastating, but also cathartic and ultimately uplifting, reads by and about trans people:

"The Death of Vivek Oji" by Akwaeke Emezi

"Bad Habit" by Alana Portero, translated by Mara Faye Lethem

🌈📚💙🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️ #queerbooks #booksky #transbooks #TRR25
Illustrated cover for "The Death of Vivek Oji" by Akwaeke Emezi, featuring a grey background with colorful plaited swaths of hair ranging pink to red. Cover for "Bad Habit" by Alana Portero, translated by Mara Faye Lethem, featuring the face of a trans woman in red lipstick with blond hair, seen from the side.
March 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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It's been a rough week. This was a good cathartic read for me. Death, birth, love, family. Identity, be it gender, religious, familial. Oh, and some ghosts along the way.

"Rules for Ghosting" by Shelly Jay Shore

🌈📚💙🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️ #queerbooks #booksky #transgender
Illustrated cover for "Rules for Ghosting" by Shelly Jay Shore, featuring a series of small images: a large house, candles, coffins, and a grave marker with a Star of David with two hands in front, joined by the pinky fingers.
March 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Sapphic books I read in February!

My proportion of sapphic reads has skyrocketed since joining a few groups, and I love it!

🌈📚💙🖤🧡📚🏳️‍🌈🌶🦄🚀 #queerbooks #sapphicbooks #lesfic #booksky
February sapphic reads book cover collage for mandameow. Featuring: "The 7-10 Split" by Karmen Lee "A Little Kissing Between Friends" by Chencia C Higgins "Outdrawn" by Deanna Grey "Above All Things" by Roslyn Sinclair "Chaos Agent" by Lee Winter "Cuffing Season" by Monica McCallan "Aurora's Angel" by Emily Noon "D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding" by Chencia C Higgins "The Space Between Worlds" by Micaiah Johnson "Mistakes Were Made" by Meryl Wilsner "The Lotus Empire" by Tasha Suri "Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies" by Misha Popp "Into The Bright Open" by Cherie Dimaline "Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything" by Justine Pucella Winans "Black Girl, Call Home" by Jasmine Mans "Bingo Love" by Tee Franklin "Mortal Follies" by Alexis Hall
March 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Queer books I read in February:

There were some really great reads, especially the recommendations I found for Black History Month

Plus: I am finally live on storygraph! (It took ages...)

🌈📚💙🏳️‍🌈📚🖤🌶🚀🦄 #queerbooks #booksky #sapphicbooks #blackhistorymonth
mandameow's queer book cover collage for February 2025 Titles included: "Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies" by Misha Popp "Ace of Spades" by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé "The Lotus Empire" by Tasha Suri "D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding" by Chencia C Higgins "Aurora's Angel" by Emily Noon "Mortal Follies" by Alexis Hall "Cuffing Season" by Monica McCallan "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender "Chaos Agent" by Lee Winter "The King Is Dead" by Benjamin Dean "Into The Bright Open" by Cherie Dimaline "Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything" by Justine Pucella Winans "The Resurrectionist" by A. Rae Dunlap "A Deadly Walk in Devon" by Nicholas George "Bingo Love" by Tee Franklin "Outdrawn" by Deanna Grey "The Undetectables" by Courtney Smyth "Above All Things" by Roslyn Sinclair "Mistakes Were Made" by Meryl Wilsner "First, Become Ashes" by K. M. Szpara "Dear Senthuran" by Akwaeke Emezi "Black Girl, Call Home" by Jasmine Mans "A Little Kissing Between Friends" by Chencia C Higgins "How We Fight for Our Lives" by Saeed Jones "Confounding Oaths" by Alexis Hall "Liar City" by Allie Therin "Mutual Interest" by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith "A Lethal Walk in Lakeland" by Nicholas George "Wendy, Darling" by A. C. Wise "The Space Between Worlds" by Micaiah Johnson "Those Beyond the Wall" by Micaiah Johnson "The 7-10 Split" by Karmen Lee
March 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Black Future Month!

Week 4 reads:

It's rare for me to reread a book ahead of a sequel, but this series is so good I had to!

"The Space Between Worlds" and "Those Beyond the Wall" by Micaiah Johnson

And as always, some light romance:

"The 7-10 Split" by Karmen Lee

🌈📚💙🖤🏳️‍🌈📚🚀🌶 #queerbooks #booksky
Cover for "The Space Between Worlds" by Micaiah Johnson, featuring the two images of the same Black woman wearing very different outfits, one in military gear and the other in white flowing clothes, against very different backgrounds, one a desert and the other a futuristic city. The ground for each woman is one edge of the picture, appearing as if one is walking down and the other is walking up the side of the image. Illustrated cover for "Those Beyond the Wall" by Micaiah Johnson, featuring a Black woman with short cropped hair, facing away with her head turned in profile. The bottom half of the background is taken up by desert and the top half by a towering city, with a wall forming a barrier between the two. Illustrated cover for "The 7-10 Split" by Karmen Lee, featuring two Black women in front of a bowling lane, wearing matching team shirts and gazing at the other as they each hold a bowling ball.
March 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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A queer romance a day for February!

Day 28: "Once & Future"
by Amy Rose Capetta and Cory McCarthy

I wanted to end this list on a fun note so I present to you: a sapphic retelling of Arthurian legend IN SPACE!

🌈📚💙🧡📚🏳️‍🌈🌶🚀 #queerbooks #booksky #sapphicbooks
Cover for "Once & Future" by A.R. Capetta and Cory McCarthy, featuring a pair of arms wearing pink accented gauntlets, reach down to pull a matching sword from below.
February 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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A queer romance a day for February!

Day 27: "Unnatural Magic" by C. M. Waggoner

I need more queer trolls in my life! Especially when their society has such a unique approach to gender.

🌈📚💙🏳️‍🌈📚🌶 #queerbooks #booksky
Illustrated cover for "Unnatural Magic" by C. M. Waggoner, featuring a pattern of vines and leaves, worked around the title and several small images: a woman's silhouette, an apple, an anatomically realistic heart, a potion, a gun, and a dagger.
February 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM