Written on the Body
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. …
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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
2. A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
By: Anaïs Nin
3.71
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Although Anais Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could … read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- literature
"Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime."-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
"We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts."-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
"At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection."-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
"Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors"-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
3. 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
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
4. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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- literature
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
5. 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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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
6. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
7. 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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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
8. Last Words from Montmartre
By: Qiu Miaojin , Ari Larissa Heinrich
2.77
Format: 130 pages,
When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
9. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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- queer
- contemporary
10. Written on the Body
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. … read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
11. The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader
By: Joan Nestle
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Gay & Lesbian Studies, Homosexuality, Women's Studies read more
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12. 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
- queer
- fiction
- 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
13. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson: Note
By: None
3.99
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
'York Notes Advanced' offer an accessible approach to English Literature. This series has been comp… read more
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14. Giovanni’s Room
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds h… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- literature
- fiction
- queer
"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
15. 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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16. Olivia
By: Dorothy Bussy , Regina Marler , Olivia , Dorothy Strachey
4.00
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
"Considered one of the most subtle and beautifully written lesbian novels of the century, this 1949… read more
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17. The Time: Night
By: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya , Sally Laird , None
3.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in Russia in 1992, The Time: Nightis a darkly humorous depiction of the Soviet utop… read more
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18. I Who Have Never Known Men
By: Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underg… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
19. A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Amina Cain
4.03
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
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- literature
"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
20. Ofert a les mans, el paradís crema
By: Pol Guasch
4.14
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Efervescència i una novel·la sobre l’amistat en un món abocat al col·lapse. La Rita viu a la Co… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
21. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
22. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
23. La seducción
By: Sara Torres
3.68
Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition
Tras el éxito de Lo que hay, vuelve con una novela sobre la distancia, el deseo y la fantasía la au… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"Esa es la propuesta del 'amor' humano hacia los animales: adáptate a mi ley o muere."-Sara Torres, La seducción
"No elegimos las primeras imágenes que capturan nuestro deseo. Nos son impuestas: por azar, por poder o por norma."-Sara Torres, La seducción
"Imagino ese concretísimo gesti para poder correrme. ¿Qué dice de mi? ¿Qué dicen de nosotras las imágenes que nos desatan?"-Sara Torres, La seducción
"Las observaba y sus gestos, imaginados en mi propia carne, me dolían, pero a ellas no. Parecía natural su ser suaves, imberbes, con aroma a frambuesa y a plátano."-Sara Torres, La seducción
24. Ocàs i fascinació
By: Eva Baltasar
3.45
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Flotes, això és el màxim que has aconseguit. Tens mitja feina, una habitació rellogada i un títol q… read more
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- fiction
25. 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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- romance
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"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
26. In the Dream House
By: Carmen Maria Machado
4.42
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex r… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"But this story? This one's mine."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"You tried to tell your story to people who didn't know how to listen."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
27. Girls Against God
By: Jenny Hval
3.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God
"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God
28. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
29. Com un batec en un micròfon
By: Clara Queraltó
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Amb el carnet de conduir acabat d’estrenar, la Gabriela puja a passar l’estiu al poble de l’avi, on… read more
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- fiction
30. 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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- romance
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."-K. Patrick, Mrs. S
31. Al bosc s’hi ha d’arribar quan encara és fosc
By: Maria Arimany
4.02
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Al bosc s’hi ha d’arribar quan encara és fosc és un recull de contes escrit amb una llengua viva i … read more
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