The Moss House
By: Clara Barley
3.39
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Two hundred years ago, neighbouring Yorkshire landowners Miss Lister and Miss Walker find their liv…
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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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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
2. Between the Acts
By: Virginia Woolf
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more
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- fiction
3. Stone Butch Blues
By: Leslie Feinberg
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more
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- historical fiction
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
4. Memory Wall
By: Anthony Doerr
3.91
Format: 160 pages,
Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's collection of stories is about memory: the source of meanin… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
By: Vita Sackville-West , Nigel Nicolson
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf,… read more
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6. The Day of the Triffids
By: John Wyndham
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffidsto moderate acclaim. Fifty-two year… read more
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7. 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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- romance
- lesbian
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"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
8. The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
By: Anne Lister , Helena Whitbread
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely … read more
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9. Female Fortune: Land, Gender and Authority: The Anne Lister Diaries and Other writings, 1833–36
By: Jill Liddington
3.90
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
Anne Lister (1791-1840), heiress, scholar, traveler, and estate owner, is known to us through her d… read more
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10. Girls Like Girls
By: Hayley Kiyoko
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Trailblazing pop star, actor, and director, Hayley Kiyoko debuts her first novel, a coming-of-age r… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
11. More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)
By: Satoshi Yagisawa
3.87
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the … read more
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- romance
- fiction
12. A Scatter of Light
By: Malinda Lo
3.87
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful coming-of-queer-age … read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"This is what I’ve learned: The art is greater than you and your feelings. You have to serve it. It is not you. Some people will never understand that, but you need to surround yourself with people wh…"-Malinda Lo, A Scatter of Light
13. The Guilty Couple
By: C.L. Taylor
3.87
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Five years ago, Olivia Sutherland was wrongfully convicted of plotting to murder her husband. No… read more
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- fiction
14. Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed
By: Margaret Atwood
3.78
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A FUN AND FEARLESS ANTHOLOGY OF FEMINIST TALES, to celebrate Virago's 50th birthday, featuring NEW … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
15. Boy Like Me
By: Simon James Green
4.55
Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition
It's 1994 and thanks to Section 28, there can be no mention of gay relationships in schools. When a… read more
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- romance
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
16. Black Butterflies
By: Priscilla Morris
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
17. The Gloaming
By: Kirsty Logan
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Mara’s island is one of stories and magic. She knows she’ll eventually end her days atop the cliff,… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"We can't carry our whole lives with us everywhere we go. Memories have weight, and no one can lift them all at once. We have to leave some of them behind."-Kirsty Logan, The Gloaming
"Why would you think that I would only like you when you’re nice? I like you like this,’ she said, ‘and I like you not like this, and I like you every way you can possibly be."-Kirsty Logan, The Gloaming
"When I was a child, sadness was the islands- rocky, yes, but small and containable, easy to leave. Now sadness was the sea. So I went in... I knew the water was cold, but to me it felt warm. No-that'…"-Kirsty Logan, The Gloaming
"What bothered her most was how mundane it all was. This terrible thing had happened - this huge, life-changing thing that meant the world would never be the same. But outside their house, whose life …"-Kirsty Logan, The Gloaming
18. Wakenhyrst
By: Michelle Paver
3.87
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wa… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
19. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
By: Bridget Collins
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
20. Desperate Undertaking (Flavia Albia #10)
By: Lindsey Davis
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In Lindsey Davis's next book in the beloved Flavia Albia Series, Desperate Undertaking, a mad kille… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
21. The Binding
By: Bridget Collins
3.86
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-cen… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"Memories,"-Bridget Collins, The Binding
"I ran through air that held me back."-Bridget Collins, The Binding
"We make books - we make beautiful books - out of love."-Bridget Collins, The Binding
"the fear with elderly characters is the high likelihood of their death..."-Bridget Collins, The Binding
22. Nevada
By: Imogen Binnie
3.97
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
23. The Confessions of Frannie Langton
By: Sara Collins
3.57
Format: 384 pages, ebook
A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing hi… read more
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- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"What did Shakespeare know? Love must alter, or it can't survive."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"there were two things I loved: all those books I read, and all the people who wrote them."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"A man writes to separate himself from the common history. A woman writes to try to join it."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"Only two types of white people in this world, chile, the ones doing shit to you and the ones wanting you to tell them ’bout the shit them other ones did."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
24. Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her
By: Daisy May Cooper
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Life hasn't always been straightforward for Daisy May Cooper: growing up in rural poverty in Glouce… read more
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25. Gentleman Jack: A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist
By: Angela Steidele
3.73
Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition
Longlisted for the 2019 Portico Prize The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who … read more
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- lesbian
- historical
- queer
- lgbt
26. Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister
By: Anne Choma
4.05
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
The official companion book to the HBO series Gentleman Jack created by Sally Wainwright and starri… read more
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- lesbian
- historical
- queer
- lgbt
"Capable, clever and with a natural gift for land and estate management, Anne had been the natural choice to take on the huge task of running Shibden. Not only had she impressed Uncle James with her a…"-Anne Choma, Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister
27. Bitterthorn
By: Kat Dunn
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Blumwald is a town overshadowed by an ancient curse: in a sinister castle in the depths of the wild… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"She was lost to me in a hundred little griefs I found anew each year"-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn
"Loneliness can be something other people do to us, and something we do to ourselves."-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn
"The hurtful truth of death was that it was as mundane as a meal uneaten, a cup knocked over."-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn
"My mother was tidied away into her grave and my stepmother unpacked her things into her place. I found myself far from home without having travelled a metre."-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn
28. Small Worlds
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.32
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
29. Nature's Domain: Anne Lister and the Landscape of Desire
By: Jill Liddington
4.43
Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition
May 1832: Anne Lister was making her way home to Halifax and ancient Shibden Hall. Betrayed once ag… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
30. The Moss House
By: Clara Barley
3.39
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Two hundred years ago, neighbouring Yorkshire landowners Miss Lister and Miss Walker find their liv… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- lesbian
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- lesbian fiction
- queer
31. The Gentleman Jack Effect: Lessons in Breaking Rules and Living Out Loud
By: Janet Lea
3.40
Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition
The book is a joyous mosaic, a celebration of the power of the words from one woman of a distant er… read more
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