Sapphic Stories Book Club: Queer & Feminist Tales featuring an open book filled with flowers

A book club uplifting sapphic stories & LGBTQ+ authors

About

the Book Club

Sapphic Stories Book Club is a monetized book club that reads book club centered around sapphic characters and written by LGBTQ+ authors. Along with virtual monthly meetings, the book club has a Discord community for members to chat all things bookish and more.

Aliya Bree Hall started the book club in 2021. She is a lesbian author, freelance writer and avid reader of sapphic literature.

A screengrab of a sapphic stories book club meeting in 2023

2024

Book Club Reads

The book picks span literary genres and include a mix of fiction and nonfiction, as well as young adult and self-published titles.

December’s Choice
FRUITING BODIES by Kathryn Harlan

The 2024 sapphic stories book club picks book covers

Author Profiles

Founder Aliya Bree Hall conducts written interviews with our authors that are condensed into bite-sized author profiles. Book club members have access to the Q&As in their entirety, as well as any virtual events.

Joe Vallese author and anthology editor of IT CAME FROM THE CLOSET

October 2024 Author Profile

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Ashley Johnson | Member since 2021

“The Sapphic Stories Book Club has been a huge blessing to me as a reader. The diverse selection of books has pushed me to read more outside of my usual genres, and has introduced me to fun and compelling queer stories that I may not have read otherwise. I highly recommend joining if you’re looking for a book club or even just looking to create a bigger and more inclusive TBR.”

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    This tier is perfect for those seeking monthly sapphic book recommendations, aspiring to get back into reading, or just wanting to support our community!

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    Receive exclusive access to the bookclub community on Discord, receive PR goodies from authors and a free welcome bookmark!

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Rainbow Tier

  • Everything under the rainbow!

    Enjoy everything included in the Lavender Tier, plus vote for a book every quarter and annual collectors merch.

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Follow Along With The Community

A snippet of our profile with Author Allison Saft is up on the website for you to read! Learn more about how Saft came up for the idea for the A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE at the 🔗! You can read the full Q&A as a book club member. Join now to get
Bookish mail! 🌊 A special thank you again to @allisonhsaft for sharing these A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE themed signed book plates and stickers for our book club members! ✨ You can join the book club to read along with our monthly book picks, join co
Our profile with Author and Editor Joe Vallese is up on the website for you to read! Learn more about how Vallese came up for the idea for the anthology IT CAME FROM THE CLOSET at the 🔗! You can read the full Q&A as a book club member. Join no
The last book pick for 2024: FRUITING BODIES by Kathryn Harlan. This genre-bending debut collection of stories constructs eight eerie worlds full of desire, wisdom, and magic blooming amid decay. In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ran
We may be in December, but we’ll be holding our November book club meeting this weekend now that members are wrapping up their reads. I can’t wait to talk about the ultimate grump x sunshine pairing that is Lorelei and Sylvia. It’
I meant to post this last week but..with *everything* happening it slipped past my radar. That said, I am thrilled to announce our November book pick, A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE by @allisonhsaft! . Lorelei Kaskel, a folklorist with a quick temper and a
Our Author Profile with S.T. Gibson is up on the website for you to read! Learn more about how S.T. came up for the idea for her Carmilla retelling, AN EDUCATION IN MALICE at the 🔗! You can read the full Q&A as a book club member. Join now to
Happy Halloween!🎃 We’ll be holding our October book club meeting THIS Sunday to give members more time to finish our read, IT CAME FROM THE CLOSET. I absolutely gobbled up this collection of essays from queer and trans writers about horror
This October, we’re doing something a little different but much anticipated by our members! We’re reading IT CAME FROM THE CLOSET: QUEER REFLECTIONS ON HORROR. Through the lens of horror—from Halloween to Hereditary—queer an
Tomorrow we’re meeting for our belated September meeting and I’m thrilled to talk with members more about AN EDUCATION IN MALICE. After reading the original CARMILLA novella and CARMILLA & LAURA a few years ago, this retelling was th