Lesbian Literature
Essays about books by and about women who love women
A Short History of Black lesbian Writers
The Love Letters of Literary Lesbians
The Coming Out Stories of Literary Lesbians
Lesbian in a Heterosexual World
The Entangled Roots of Racial Superiority and Homophobia
A Personal Story About My Favorite Lesbian Film
The Importance of Literature by Queer Women for a Queer Woman
Fiction
In alphabetical order, reviewed list first
Bastard Out of North Carolina: Dorothy Allison
Women Lovers, or the Third Woman: Natalie Barney
The One Who is Legion: Natalie Barney
Love Me Tender: Constance Debré
Carol, or The Price of Salt: Patricia Highsmith
Thérèse et Isabelle: Violette Leduc
A Green Equinox: Elizabeth Mavor
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter: Carson McCullers
Reflections in a Golden Eye: Carson McCullers
Notes on a Crocodile: Qiu Miaojin
All Roads are Open: Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Loving Her: Ann Allen Shockley
The Girls in 3-B: Valerie Taylor
Faustian and Other Stories: Renee Vivien & Helene de Zuylen
Tipping the Velvet: Sarah Waters
The Scorpion / Of Love Forbidden: Anna Elisabet Weirauch
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal: Jeanette Winterson
The Safekeep: Yael Van Der Wouden
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
The (sapphic) poems and plays of Aphra Behn
Girls, Girls, Girls: Shoshana von Blanckensee
Ruby Fruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown
Learned by Heart: Emma Donoghue
My Lesbian Novel: Renee Gladwell
The Gilda Stories: Jewelle Gomez
The Well of Loneliness: Radclyffe Hall
A Raisin in the Sun: Lorraine Hansberry
The Chinese Garden: Rosemary Manning
Member of the Wedding: Carson McCullers
Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Carson McCullers
Last Words from Montmartre: Qiu Miaojin
Chocolates for Breakfast: Pamela Moore
Under the Udala Trees: Chinelo Okparanta
Mrs S.: K Patrick
Liane de Pougy: Sapphic Idyll
On Strike Against God: Joanna Russ
After Sappho: Selby Wynn Schwartz
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas: Gertrude Stein
Terminal Boredom: Stories: Izumi Suzuki
Words of a Woman who Breathes Fire: Kitty Tsui
A Woman Appeared to Me: Renee Vivien
Lilith’s Legacy: Renee Vivien
The Color Purple: Alice Walker
Summer Will Show: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Zipper Mouth: Laurie Weeks
Torchlight To Valhalla: Gale Wilhelm
Written on the Body: Jeannette Winterson
To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf
The Waves: Virginia Woolf
A Room of One’s Own: Virginia Woolf
Non-Fiction
The Best Biographies of Queer Women Writers
Djuna (a graphic biography): Jon Macy
Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia’s Sappho: Diana Lewis Burgin
Sapphistries: Leila J. Rupp (general history)
Queer Phenomenology: Sara Ahmed
Light in the Dark (Lux en lo Oscuro): Gloria E. Andazldúa
Dear Tiny Heart: The Letters of Jane Heap and Florence Reynolds: Holly A. Baggett
Gender Trouble: Judith Butler
Who’s Afraid of Gender?: Judith Butler
Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance: Cheryl Clarke
Black Lesbian in White America: Anita Cornwell
Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney: Natalie Clifford Barney
Chains of Love and Beauty: Carolyn Dever
One Soul We Divided, A Critical Edition of the Diary of Michael Field: Carolyn Dever
The Black Period: Hafizah Augustus Geter
Hijab Butch Blues: Lamya H.
Reminiscences of a Student’s Life: Jane Ellen Harrison
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Saidiya Hartman
Sister Outsider: Audre Lorde
Cancer Journals: Audre Lorde
Highsmith, A Romance of the 1950s: Marijane Meaker
Jack and Eve: Wendy Moore
Public Faces, Secret Lives: Wendy L. Rouse
In the Dreamhouse: Carmen Maria Machado