Welcome to Episode 3! This week’s episode is about all things LGBTQ literature (with a few bonus questions from listeners on a time crunch). My guest this week is Danika Ellis. Danika runs the lesbian and bisexual women book blog The Lesbrary as well as its tumblr counterpart Fuck Yeah Lesbian Literature. She is also a booktuber and Book Riot contributor. Her day job is running the kids’ section of Russell Books, the largest used bookstore in Canada. Follow her on Twitter @DanikaEllis.
This episode is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and Only Ever Yours by Louise O’Neill.
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Books Discussed on the Show!
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
Burnt Toast B&B by Heidi Belleau and Rachel Hamowitz
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kristin Cronn-Mills
George by Alex Gino
The Collection edited by Tom Leger
Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey
“Lizzy & Annie”/A Safe Girl To Love by Casey Plett“
The Unintentional Time Traveler by Everett Maroon
Huntress by Malinda Lo
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m danforth
Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin
Prairie Ostrich by Tamai Kobayashi
Adaptation by Malinda Lo
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Sphinx by Anne Garreta, translated by Emma Ramadan
all of Sarah Waters’s other books, especially Fingersmith
The Summer We Got Free by Mia Mckenzie
The Last Nude by Ellis Avery
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso
Falling In Love With Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
My Education by Susan Choi
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, trans Lisa Dillman
Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley (and anything from Melville House’s Art of the Novella)
Two Or Three Things I Know For Sure by Dorothy Alison
The Story of Ruth and Eliza by Kristen Stone
Sisterhood by Julie R Enszer
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