No Modernism Without Lesbians
By: Diana Souhami
3.76
Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition
In the summer of 1945, just after the Nazi occupation, Truman Capote visited Romaine Brooks's aband…
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1. The Well of Loneliness
By: Radclyffe Hall
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disgu… read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
2. Rubyfruit Jungle
By: Rita Mae Brown
3.68
Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a les… read more
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- lesbian
- gay
- lgbt
- feminism
- queer
3. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
This startling novel describes the adolescence of a ferociously bright and rebellious orphan adopte… read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
4. Tipping the Velvet
By: Sarah Waters
4.05
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersona… read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"clad not exactly as a boy but, rather confusingly, as the boy I would have been, had I been more of a girl"-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
"I knew that Kitty and I felt just the same- only, of course, about different things. I should have remembered this, later."-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
"Tricky was a plain-faced man with a very handsome voice - a voice like the sound of a clarinet, at once liquid and penetrating, and lovely to listen to."-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
"With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk."-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
5. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
By: Lillian Faderman
3.80
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Lillian Faderman tells the compelling story of lesbian life in the 20th century, from the early 190… read more
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6. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By: Audre Lorde
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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7. Chelsea Girls
By: Eileen Myles
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age n… read more
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8. Blue Horses
By: Mary Oliver
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her l… read more
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9. After Sappho
By: Selby Wynn Schwartz
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more
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- lesbian
- feminism
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"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
10. Sunburn
By: Chloe Michelle Howarth
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more
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- lesbian
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- lgbt
"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"My heart lurches, as if it wants to leave my awful body and go make a home in her."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
11. Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
By: Lola Olufemi
4.43
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
More than just a slogan on a t-shirt, feminism is a radical tool for fighting back against structur… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
"Feminist work is justice work"-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"Legality does not equal access."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"A feminism that seeks power instead of questioning it does not care about justice."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"If feminism means freedom, it means the right to self-determination and the right to be multi-dimensional, disorganised and even incoherent."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
12. Walk Me to the Corner
By: Anneli Furmark
3.92
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Stability withers where passion blossoms in this cool-toned meditation on mid-life relationships.A … read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
13. Mrs. S
By: K. Patrick
3.63
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."-K. Patrick, Mrs. S
14. A Short History of Queer Women
By: Kirsty Loehr
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Queer women have always existed – let’s put them back in the history books No, they weren’t ‘just … read more
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- lesbian
- history
- gay
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
15. Fem
By: Joan Nestle
4.56
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Joan Nestle est une icône lesbienne. Née en 1940 dans le Bronx au sein d’une famille juive de la cl… read more
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- lesbian
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
16. Winter Love
By: Han Suyin
3.86
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
As a college student in London during the bitterly cold winter of 1944, Red falls in love with her … read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
"She alone would do a mad and wonderful thing like that, ringing me up. No one else ever did things like that for me. I always had had to do the ringing up and the asking, and going to people’s rooms,…"-Han Suyin, Winter Love
17. All The Things She Said: Everything I Know About Modern Lesbian and Bi Culture
By: Daisy Jones
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A modern, personal guide to the culture of queer women and everyone in between. All The Things S… read more
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- lesbian
- gay
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
18. No Modernism Without Lesbians
By: Diana Souhami
3.76
Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition
In the summer of 1945, just after the Nazi occupation, Truman Capote visited Romaine Brooks's aband… read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- gay
- lgbt
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- queer
19. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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- lesbian
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- lgbt
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
