200 books about lesbians and female homosexuality: histories, memoirs, biographies, essays, and more
β The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and RenΓ©e Vivien by Karla Jay
β Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger
β Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality, 850-1780 A.D. by Samar Habib
β Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65 by Cameron Duder
β Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall by Marie Cartier
β Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
β Britanniaβs Glory: A History of Twentieth-Century Lesbians by Emily Hamer
β Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves
β Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbians During the Third Reich by Claudia Schoppmann
β Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Birth of the Lesbian Rights Movement by Marcia M. Gallo
β The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China by Tze-Lan D. Sang
β Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures by Bonnie Zimmerman
β Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture by Laura Doan
β Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations by Samar Habib
β The Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian America by Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt
β Her Husband Was a Woman!: Womenβs Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture by Alison Oram
β Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928 by Martha Vicinus
β A Lesbian History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Women Since 1500 by Rebecca Jennings
β The Lesbian History Sourcebook: Love and Sex Between Women in Britain from 1780 to 1970 by Alison Oram
β Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism and Gendered Sexualities by Francesca Stella
β Lesbian Origins by Susan Cavin
β The Lesbian Premodern by Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, and Diane Watt
β Lesbians in Early Modern Spain by Sherry Velasco
β The Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward by D. Merilee Clunis
β Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism by Bernadette J. Brooten
β Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community Across Canada, 1964-84 by Liz Millward
β Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History, 1840-1985 by Lesbian History Group
β Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman
β Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801 by Emma Donoghue
β The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England by Valerie Traub
β Sakhiyani: Lesbian Desire in Ancient and Modern India by Giti Thadani
β Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages by Francesca CanadΓ© Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn
β Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women by Leila J. Rupp
β Scotch Verdict by Lillian Faderman
β The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 by Susan S. Lanser
β Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes by Lisa L. Moore
β Spinsters and Lesbians: Independent Womanhood in the United States by Trisha Franzen
β Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman
β To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America by Lillian Faderman
β Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: A Lesbian History of Post-War Britain 1945-71 by Rebecca Jennings
β Unnamed Desires: A Sydney Lesbian History by Rebecca Jennings
β Women Like Us by Suzanne Neild
β Active Voice The Comic Collection: The Real Life Adventures of an Asian-American, Lesbian, Feminist, Activist and Her Friends! by P. Kristen Enos
β The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
β Barbara Gittings: Gay Pioneer by Tracy Baim
β Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa
β Black Bull, Ancestors, and Me: My Life as a Lesbian Sangoma by Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde
β Black Lesbian in White America by Anita Cornwell
β Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
β Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger by Kelly J. Cogswell
β Elsa: I Come With My Songs by Elsa Gidlow
β Facing the Music: My Story by Jennifer Knapp
β Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
β Gluck: 1895-1978 : Her Biography by Diana Souhami
β Hear Me OUT!: A Dose of Lesbian Humor for The Whole Human Race by Laura Jimenez
β Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Maggie Thrash
β Iβm Just a Person by Tig Notaro
β In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court by Brittney Griner
β Journey into My Underworld: An Autobiography of a Lesbian Journey by Jo Alexander
β Kicking the Habit: A Lesbian Nun Story: An Autobiographical Novel by Jeanne CΓ³rdova
β Lion Womanβs Legacy: An Armenian-American Memoir by Arlene Voski Avakian
β My Butch Career: A Memoir by Esther Newton
β My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata
β Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer by Chely Wright
β My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement by Alix Dobkin
β Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir by Lillian Faderman
β Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by CherrΓe L. Moraga
β Once Upon a Convent: A Memoir of a Lesbian Nun by Orice Klaas
β The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin
β Prairie Silence: A Memoir by Melanie Hoffert
β Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey by Jackie Kay
β Riding Fury Home: A Memoir by Chana Wilson
β The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister by Anne Lister
β Seriouslyβ¦Iβm Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres
β Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russiaβs Sappho by Diana Lewis Burgin
β A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australiaβs Only All-Girl Garage by Loretta Smith
β Spectacles by Sue Perkins
β Spinning by Tillie Walden
β Spit and Passion by Cristy C. Road
β Straight Walk: A Supermodelβs Journey to Finding Her Truth by Patricia VelΓ‘squez
β Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation by Karla Jay
β The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami
β The Truth Isβ¦:My Life in Love and Music by Melissa Etheridge
β Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison
β A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby
β Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi
β When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love and Revolution by Jeanne CΓ³rdova
β Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
β A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir by Edie Windsor
β Women Prefer Women by Elula Perrin
β You Canβt Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties by Carol E. Anderson
Culture and Everyday Life
β The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture by Terry Castle
β Cats (And Their Dykes): An Anthology by Irene Reti
β Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life by Denise Tse-Shang Tang
β The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture by Bonnie J. Morris
β Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Womenβs Music Festivals by Bonnie J. Morris
β Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan by Sharon Chalmers
β Faces and Phases by Zanele Muholi
β Female Masculinity by J. Jack Halberstam
β Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian Traditions in Gardening by Irene Reti
β Latina Lesbian Writers and Artists by Maria Dolores Costa
β Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History by Harmony Hammond
β Lesbian Communities: Festivals, RVs, and the Internet by Esther D. Rothblum
β Lesbian Culture: An Anthology: The Lives, Work, Ideas, Art and Visions of Lesbians Past and Present by Julia Penelope
β Lesbian Land by Joyce Cheney
β Lesbian Passion: Loving Ourselves and Each Other by JoAnn Loulan
β A Lesbian Photo Album: The Lives of Seven Lesbian Feminists by Cathy Cade
β Lesbian Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand by Alison Laurie
β Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India by Maya Sharma
β The New Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book by Ginny Vida
β Out and About: Sydneyβs Lesbian Social Scene, 1960s-1980s by Rebecca Jennings
β The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader by Joan Nestle
β Witches Heal: Lesbian Herbal Self-Sufficiency by Billie Potts
β Women in Love: Portraits of Lesbian Mothers & Their Families by Barbara Seyda
β Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary by Fran Martin
β Chinese Lesbian Cinema: Mirror Rubbing, Lala, and Les by Liang Shi
β Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present by Lillian Faderman
β Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama by Denise Walen
β Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures by Sahar Amer
β Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel by Lisa L. Moore
β The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica: 1920-1940 by Victoria A. Brownworth
β Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identities and Cultural Space by Sally R. Munt
β Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue
β Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-SiΓ¨cle France by Nicole Albert
β Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho by Jane McIntosh Snyder
β Lesbian Detective Fiction: Woman as Author, Subject and Reader by Phyllis M. Betz
β The Lesbian Fantastic by Phyllis M. Betz
β The Lesbian in Literature: A Bibliography by Barbara Grier
β Lesbian Menace by Sherrie A. Inness
β Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels, 1950-1965 by Katherine V. Forrest
β Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis by Phyllis M. Betz
β Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions by Karla Jay and Joanne Glasgow
β Lesbian Voices from Latin America by Elena M. Martinez
β The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall by Terry Castle
β New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings by Sally R. Munt
β Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition by Rebecca T. Alpert
β Out on the Shelves: Lesbian Books Into Libraries by Jane Allen
β The Outside Thing: Modernist Lesbian Romance by Hannah Roche
β Performing La Mestiza: Textual Representations of Lesbians of Color and the Negotiation of Identities by Ellen Gil-Gomez
β The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989 by Bonnie Zimmerman
β Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714 by Harriette Andreadis
β Sexual Practice/Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism by Susan J. Wolfe and Julia Penelope
β Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969 by Jaye Zimet
β (Un)Familiar Femininities: Studies in Contemporary Lesbian South Asian Texts by Aneeta Rajendran
β Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in the Cinema by Andrea Weiss
β What Lesbians Do In Books by Elaine Hobby and Chris White
β With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians by Catriona Rueda Esquibel
β All the Rage: Reasserting Radical Lesbian Feminism by Lynne Harne and Elaine Miller
β Brazen Hussies: A Herstory of Radical Activism in the Womenβs Liberation Movement in Victoria 1970β1979 by Jean Taylor
β Call Me Lesbian: Lesbian Lives, Lesbian Theory by Julia Penelope
β Country Lesbians: The Story of the WomanShare Collective by Sue Deevy
β Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes by Irena Klepfisz
β Dykes Loving Dykes: Dyke Separatist Politics for Lesbians Only by Bev Jo
β For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology by Sarah Lucia Hoagland
β The House That Jill Built: A Lesbian Nation in Formation by Becki Ross
β Lesbian Ethics by Sarah Lucia Hoagland
β Lesbian Feminism in Turn-of-the-Century Germany by Lillian Faderman and Brigitte Eriksson
β The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs by Estelle B. Freedman, Barbara C. Gelpi, and Susan L. Johnson
β Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures by Jeffner Allen
β Lesbian Philosophy: Explorations by Jeffner Allen
β The Lesbian Postmodern by Laura Doan
β The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon by Jaime Harker
β Lesbian/Woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon
β Lesbians Ignite!: In Victoria in the 1990s by Jean Taylor
β Lesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom by Beth Mintz and Esther D. Rothblum
β Love & Politics: Radical Feminist & Lesbian Theories by Carol Anne Douglas
β The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century by Bonnie Zimmerman
β Sappho Was a Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism by Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love
β Separatism and Womenβs Community by Dana R. Shugar
β Sor Juana InΓ©s de La Cruz: Selected Works by Sor Juana InΓ©s de La Cruz
β The Straight Mind: And Other Essays by Monique Wittig
β Stroppy Dykes: Radical Lesbian Feminist Activism in Victoria During the 1980s by Jean Taylor
β This Is What Lesbian Looks Like: Dyke Activists Take on the 21st Century by Kris Kleindienst
β The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslimβs Call for Reform in Her Faith by Irshad Manji
β Unleashing Feminism: A Critique of Lesbian Sadomasochism in the Gay Nineties by Irene Reti
β Volcanoes and Pearl Divers: Essays in Lesbian Feminist Studies by Suzanne Raitt
Anthologies: Lives and Relationships
β Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing by Catherine E. McKinley
β Beginnings: Lesbians Talk About the First Time They Met Their Long-Term Partner by Lindsey Elder
β Between the Lines: An Anthology by Pacific-Asian Lesbians of Santa Cruz, California by Cristy Chung
β Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About by Carla Trujillo
β CompaΓ±eras: Latina Lesbians: An Anthology by Juanita Ramos
β Does Your Mama Know? : An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories by Lisa C. Moore
β Dyke Life: From Growing Up to Growing Old, a Celebration of the Lesbian Experience by Karla Jay
β The Exploding Frangipani: Lesbian Writing from Australia and New Zealand by Cathie Dunsford
β Facing the Mirror: Lesbian Writing from India by Ashwini Sukthankar
β Finding the Lesbians: Personal Accounts from Around the World by Julia Penelope
β First Bloom: Stories of Blossoming Black Lesbian Love by Saydeah E. Howard
β Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence by Rosemary Curb and Nancy Manahan
β Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation by Rebecca T. Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell, and Shirley Idelson
β Lesbian Self-Writing: The Embodiment of Experience by Carol Lynda Hall
β Lesbians Speak Out by Carol Wilson
β Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology by Evelyn Torton Beck
β The Original Coming Out Stories by Julia Penelope
β Out of the Class Closet: Lesbians Speak by Julia Penelope
β Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology by Makeda Silvera
β Reclaiming the L-Word: Sapphoβs Daughters Out in Africa by Alleyn Diesel
β Restricted Access: Lesbians on Disability by Victoria A. Brownworth and Susan Raffo
β Talking Black: African, Caribbean, and Asian Lesbians Speak Out by Valerie Mason-John
β They Will Know Me By My Teeth: Stories and Poems of Lesbian Struggle, Celebration, And Survival by Elana Dykewomon
β Write from the Heart: Lesbian Healing from Heartache by Anita L. Pace