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…
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1. Notes of a Crocodile
By: Qiu Miaojin , Bonnie Huie
3.83
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-ag… read more
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- lesbian
- classics
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Secretly though, I did sort of enjoy being a fucked-up mess. Apart from that, I didn't have a whole lot going on."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Like death, college serves as a kind of escape hatch. But while death takes you straight to the morgue, college is a single rope dangling loose from the inescapable net of society."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Sweeping that other me into their arms, they led me in a dance within societal norms, along a trajectory based on a delusion. (Though I couldn't define what I was, I knew what I wasn't.)"-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
2. 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
- classics
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
3. 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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- classics
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
4. 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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- classics
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
5. 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
- classics
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
6. Stuff Happens
By: David Hare
3.57
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
"Stuff happens . . . And it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistak… read more
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7. 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
- classics
- lgbt
- religion
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
8. Fingersmith
By: Sarah Waters
4.02
Format: 592 pages, ebook
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raise… read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"You pearl!"-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"PIGEON MY ARSE!"-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"It's a curious, wanting thing."-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you."-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
9. 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
- 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
10. 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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11. 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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- classics
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"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
12. The Bell Jar
By: Sylvia Plath
4.06
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented… read more
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- fiction
"I woke to the sound of rain."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
13. The Book of Blood
By: Vicki Feaver
4.33
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Split between dark and light, this book records the dichotomy of human experience with unflinching … read more
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14. The Price of Salt, or Carol
By: Patricia Highsmith , Claire Morgan
4.02
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Patricia Highsmith's story of sexual obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely … read more
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- lesbian
- classics
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"She hated cleaning up after making something."-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity."-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?"-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?"-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
15. 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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- classics
- 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
16. Our Wives Under the Sea
By: Julia Armfield
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
17. Good Morning, Midnight
By: Jean Rhys
3.87
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
“As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal.”― Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Quite like old times,' the room says."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"And then the days came when I was alone."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"I want more of this feeling - fire and wings."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"Saved, rescued, but not quite so good as new..."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
18. 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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- lesbian
- 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
19. 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
- 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
"All I'm doing is trying to love people. All I need is the right kind of love back."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
20. 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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- lesbian
- 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
21. 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
- 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
