Lesbian Literature
Essays about books by and about women who love women
A Brief History of Queer Women Writing
The Importance of Literature by Queer Women for a Queer Woman
Fiction
In alphabetical order, reviewed list first
Women Lovers, or the Third Woman: Natalie Barney
The One Who is Legion: Natalie Barney
Love Me Tender: Constance Debrรฉ (personal essay)
Carol, or The Price of Salt: Patricia Highsmith
Thรฉrรจse 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
Faustian and Other Stories: Renee Vivien & Helene de Zuylen
The Scorpion / Of Love Forbidden: Anna Elisabet Weirauch
The Safekeep: Yael Van Der Wouden
Bastard Out of North Carolina: Dorothy Allison
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
Women: Chloe Caldwell
Learned by Heart: Emma Donoghue
My Lesbian Novel: Renee Gladwell
The Gilda Stories: Jewelle Gomez
The Well of Loneliness: Radclyffe Hall
Fair Play: Tove Jansson
Member of the Wedding: Carson McCullers
Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Carson McCullers
Last Words from Montmartre: Qiu Miaojin
Chelsea Girls: Eileen Myles
Mrs S.: K Patrick
Liane de Pougy: Sapphic Idyll
After Sappho: Selby Wynn Schwartz
Three Women: Gertrude Stein
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas: Gertrude Stein
Terminal Boredom: Stories: Izumi Suzuki
A Woman Appeared to Me: Renee Vivien
Lilithโs Legacy: Renee Vivien
The Color Purple: Alice Walker
Summer Will Show: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Tipping the Velvet: Sarah Waters
Fingersmith: Sarah Waters
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: Jeannette Winterson
To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf
The Waves: Virginia Woolf
A Room of Oneโs Own: Virginia Woolf
Non-Fiction
The Best Biographies of Queer Women Writers
Djuna (a graphic biography): Jon Macy
A Photograph of Sapphic Literature
Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russiaโs Sappho: Diana Burgin
Queer Phenomenology: Sara Ahmed
Light in the Dark (Lux en lo Oscuro): Gloria E. Andazldรบa
Dear Tiny Heart: The Letters of Jane Heap and Florence Reynolds: Holly A. Baggett
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 Studentโs Life: Jane Ellen Harrison
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Saidiya Hartman
Sister Outsider: Audra Lorde
Cancer Journals: Audra Lorde
Jack and Eve: Wendy Moore
Public Faces, Secret Lives: Wendy L. Rouse
In the Dreamhouse: Carmen Maria Machado