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Sapph-Lit AUGUST 2026 non-fiction book poll!

What non-fiction work should we read in August? Do we want a new memoir? A selection of essays?

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Upcoming Reads

• You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson
• Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson
• Take Me With You by Andrea Gibson
• The Natural Order of Things by Donika Kelly
• Fragments of Wasted Devotion by Mia Arias Tsang
• Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry by Daniel Zomparelli
• Questions for Ada by Ijeoma Umebinyuo
• Inferno by Eileen Myles
• Not Me by Eileen Myles
• The New Fuck You: Adventures In Lesbian Reading by Eileen Myles
• The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell
• Devotions by Mary Oliver
• Upstream by Mary Oliver
• Blue Horses by Mary Oliver
• A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
• Couplets by Maggie Millner
• Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom
• Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall by Stephanie Burt
• We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics by Aeon Ginsberg

January Non-Fiction Book Poll

Help us choose what to read in the new year!

• Sorry I Keep Crying During Sex by Jesse James Rose
• Miss Major Speaks by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
• The Dry Season by Melissa Febos
• The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir by Kirsty Logan
• How To Fuck Like A Girl by Vera Blossom
• High School by Tegan and Sara
• Fragments of Wasted Devotion by Mia Arias Tsang
• Entwined by Alex Alberto
• Trying by Chloe Caldwell
• Burning Butch by R/B Mertz
• Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation by Bitter Kalli
• Dyke Delusions: Essays & Observations by Samantha Mann
• The Intersectional Environmentalist by Leah Thomas
• Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden

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