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…
Want to Read $ 7.99"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
"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
"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
If you liked the queer plot in Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters , here is a list of 20 books like this:
1. Annie on My Mind
By: Nancy Garden
4.02
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
This groundbreaking book is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and … read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"Real, but sometimes beautiful."-Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind
"Don't let ignorance win', said Ms. Stevenson. 'Let love."-Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind
"And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again."Inaccecible."-Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind
"It’s terrible, … for us to have been so scared to be seen with books we have every right to read."-Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind
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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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
3. Last Night at the Telegraph Club
By: Malinda Lo
4.22
Format: 409 pages, Hardcover
A story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Red Scare. “That book. It w… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"How am I supposed to know?"-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club
"As if summer had bloomed inside the club and wrapped her in its lazy heat"-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club
"She didn't understand the shrinking feeling inside her, as if she shouldn't be caught looking at those girls."-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club
"A few of them were already engaged to be married. When had everything changed? She felt as if it had been very sudden"-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club
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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- historical fiction
- 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
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
6. 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
- fiction
- lgbt
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
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Sarah Waters's Tipping the Velvet book and Sarah Waters's Tipping the Velvet
- romance
- lesbian
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- victorian
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- 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. Curious Wine
By: Katherine V. Forrest
3.89
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The intimacy of a cabin at Lake Tahoe provides the combustible setting that brings Diana Holland an… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
9. 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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- romance
- lesbian
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical 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
10. Patience & Sarah
By: Emma Donoghue , Isabel Miller
3.80
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship betwee… read more
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11. The Miseducation of Cameron Post
By: Emily M. Danforth
4.07
Format: 485 pages, Kindle Edition
When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Reli… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"Let's rock this shit."-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post
"It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all."-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post
"The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson."-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post
"But I couldn't ever make that dream happen. It just came on its own, the way dreams do."-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post
12. Those Who Wait
By: Haley Cass
4.45
Format: 632 pages, Kindle Edition
ASIN moved from less recent edition Sutton Spencer’s ideas for her life were fairly simple: fini… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"Welcome, my beautiful, bright ray of redheaded sunshine!"-Haley Cass, Those Who Wait
"I’m in love with you, Sutton. Terrifyingly, irreversibly, life-alteringly in love with you."-Haley Cass, Those Who Wait
"Charlotte swallowed hard, forcing her spine up straight and clasping her hands together tighter to make them stop shaking. “That I’m a lesbian."-Haley Cass, Those Who Wait
"I’ve learned that love is about finding someone who pulls you to them even when reason might tell you otherwise. Someone who pushes you out of your comfort zone, not because of them doing or saying a…"-Haley Cass, Those Who Wait
13. Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3)
By: Ashley Herring Blake
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partn… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
14. Cleat Cute
By: Meryl Wilsner
3.77
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two socce… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"Lesbian is important to me," Phoebe says. "The world likes to act like it's a porn category, not an identity. It took me a while to realize it wasn't. I want other girls like me to know it's a beauti…"-Meryl Wilsner, Cleat Cute
15. 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
- adult
- 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
16. The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (Feminine Pursuits, #1)
By: Olivia Waite
3.99
Format: 336 pages, ebook
As Lucy Muchelney watches her ex-lover’s sham of a wedding, she wishes herself anywhere else. It is… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- queer
"Even a love in mourning still had sparks in it."-Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (Feminine Pursuits, #1)
"Moonlight silvered the long line of Lucy’s back as she sank to her knees—not submissively, as one conquered, but as a queen kneels at a coronation."-Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (Feminine Pursuits, #1)
"Every other moon, sun, comet, planet, and star is itself a center, and extorts its own force upon all the rest. Nothing in the universe stands alone"-Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (Feminine Pursuits, #1)
"You could never mistake the sound of true grief, once you had felt it yourself. It made the mettle of the soul ring in sympathy, like one bell softly chiming whenever its neighbor was struck."-Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (Feminine Pursuits, #1)
17. Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)
By: Ashley Herring Blake
4.08
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love—with all its comp… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"And Delilah had gotten through life by putting herself first, only concentrating herself with what she knew was true, because she’d learned a long time ago that she couldn’t control anyone but hersel…"-Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)
18. Mistakes Were Made
By: Meryl Wilsner
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From the critically acclaimed author of Something To Talk About comes a sharp and sexy rom-com abou… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
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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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 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
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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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- 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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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."-K. Patrick, Mrs. S
