200 books about lesbians and female homosexuality: histories, memoirs, biographies, essays, and more
– The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renée Vivien by Karla Jay
– Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger
– Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality, 850-1780 A.D. by Samar Habib
– Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65 by Cameron Duder
– Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall by Marie Cartier
– Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
– Britannia’s Glory: A History of Twentieth-Century Lesbians by Emily Hamer
– Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves
– Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbians During the Third Reich by Claudia Schoppmann
– Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Birth of the Lesbian Rights Movement by Marcia M. Gallo
– The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China by Tze-Lan D. Sang
– Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures by Bonnie Zimmerman
– Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture by Laura Doan
– Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations by Samar Habib
– The Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian America by Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt
– Her Husband Was a Woman!: Women’s Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture by Alison Oram
– Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928 by Martha Vicinus
– A Lesbian History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Women Since 1500 by Rebecca Jennings
– The Lesbian History Sourcebook: Love and Sex Between Women in Britain from 1780 to 1970 by Alison Oram
– Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism and Gendered Sexualities by Francesca Stella
– Lesbian Origins by Susan Cavin
– The Lesbian Premodern by Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, and Diane Watt
– Lesbians in Early Modern Spain by Sherry Velasco
– The Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward by D. Merilee Clunis
– Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism by Bernadette J. Brooten
– Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community Across Canada, 1964-84 by Liz Millward
– Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History, 1840-1985 by Lesbian History Group
– Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman
– Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801 by Emma Donoghue
– The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England by Valerie Traub
– Sakhiyani: Lesbian Desire in Ancient and Modern India by Giti Thadani
– Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages by Francesca Canadé Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn
– Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women by Leila J. Rupp
– Scotch Verdict by Lillian Faderman
– The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 by Susan S. Lanser
– Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes by Lisa L. Moore
– Spinsters and Lesbians: Independent Womanhood in the United States by Trisha Franzen
– Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman
– To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America by Lillian Faderman
– Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: A Lesbian History of Post-War Britain 1945-71 by Rebecca Jennings
– Unnamed Desires: A Sydney Lesbian History by Rebecca Jennings
– Women Like Us by Suzanne Neild
– Active Voice The Comic Collection: The Real Life Adventures of an Asian-American, Lesbian, Feminist, Activist and Her Friends! by P. Kristen Enos
– The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
– Barbara Gittings: Gay Pioneer by Tracy Baim
– Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa
– Black Bull, Ancestors, and Me: My Life as a Lesbian Sangoma by Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde
– Black Lesbian in White America by Anita Cornwell
– Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
– Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger by Kelly J. Cogswell
– Elsa: I Come With My Songs by Elsa Gidlow
– Facing the Music: My Story by Jennifer Knapp
– Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
– Gluck: 1895-1978 : Her Biography by Diana Souhami
– Hear Me OUT!: A Dose of Lesbian Humor for The Whole Human Race by Laura Jimenez
– Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Maggie Thrash
– I’m Just a Person by Tig Notaro
– In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court by Brittney Griner
– Journey into My Underworld: An Autobiography of a Lesbian Journey by Jo Alexander
– Kicking the Habit: A Lesbian Nun Story: An Autobiographical Novel by Jeanne Córdova
– Lion Woman’s Legacy: An Armenian-American Memoir by Arlene Voski Avakian
– My Butch Career: A Memoir by Esther Newton
– My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata
– Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer by Chely Wright
– 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
– Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir by Lillian Faderman
– Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe L. Moraga
– Once Upon a Convent: A Memoir of a Lesbian Nun by Orice Klaas
– The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin
– Prairie Silence: A Memoir by Melanie Hoffert
– Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey by Jackie Kay
– Riding Fury Home: A Memoir by Chana Wilson
– The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister by Anne Lister
– Seriously…I’m Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres
– Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia’s Sappho by Diana Lewis Burgin
– A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australia’s Only All-Girl Garage by Loretta Smith
– Spectacles by Sue Perkins
– Spinning by Tillie Walden
– Spit and Passion by Cristy C. Road
– Straight Walk: A Supermodel’s Journey to Finding Her Truth by Patricia Velásquez
– Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation by Karla Jay
– The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami
– The Truth Is…:My Life in Love and Music by Melissa Etheridge
– Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison
– A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby
– Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi
– When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love and Revolution by Jeanne Córdova
– Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
– A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir by Edie Windsor
– Women Prefer Women by Elula Perrin
– You Can’t Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties by Carol E. Anderson
Culture and Everyday Life
– The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture by Terry Castle
– Cats (And Their Dykes): An Anthology by Irene Reti
– Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life by Denise Tse-Shang Tang
– The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture by Bonnie J. Morris
– Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women’s Music Festivals by Bonnie J. Morris
– Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan by Sharon Chalmers
– Faces and Phases by Zanele Muholi
– Female Masculinity by J. Jack Halberstam
– Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian Traditions in Gardening by Irene Reti
– Latina Lesbian Writers and Artists by Maria Dolores Costa
– Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History by Harmony Hammond
– Lesbian Communities: Festivals, RVs, and the Internet by Esther D. Rothblum
– Lesbian Culture: An Anthology: The Lives, Work, Ideas, Art and Visions of Lesbians Past and Present by Julia Penelope
– Lesbian Land by Joyce Cheney
– Lesbian Passion: Loving Ourselves and Each Other by JoAnn Loulan
– A Lesbian Photo Album: The Lives of Seven Lesbian Feminists by Cathy Cade
– Lesbian Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand by Alison Laurie
– Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India by Maya Sharma
– The New Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book by Ginny Vida
– Out and About: Sydney’s Lesbian Social Scene, 1960s-1980s by Rebecca Jennings
– The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader by Joan Nestle
– Witches Heal: Lesbian Herbal Self-Sufficiency by Billie Potts
– Women in Love: Portraits of Lesbian Mothers & Their Families by Barbara Seyda
– Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary by Fran Martin
– Chinese Lesbian Cinema: Mirror Rubbing, Lala, and Les by Liang Shi
– Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present by Lillian Faderman
– Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama by Denise Walen
– Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures by Sahar Amer
– Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel by Lisa L. Moore
– The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica: 1920-1940 by Victoria A. Brownworth
– Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identities and Cultural Space by Sally R. Munt
– Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue
– Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France by Nicole Albert
– Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho by Jane McIntosh Snyder
– Lesbian Detective Fiction: Woman as Author, Subject and Reader by Phyllis M. Betz
– The Lesbian Fantastic by Phyllis M. Betz
– The Lesbian in Literature: A Bibliography by Barbara Grier
– Lesbian Menace by Sherrie A. Inness
– Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels, 1950-1965 by Katherine V. Forrest
– Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis by Phyllis M. Betz
– Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions by Karla Jay and Joanne Glasgow
– Lesbian Voices from Latin America by Elena M. Martinez
– The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall by Terry Castle
– New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings by Sally R. Munt
– Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition by Rebecca T. Alpert
– Out on the Shelves: Lesbian Books Into Libraries by Jane Allen
– The Outside Thing: Modernist Lesbian Romance by Hannah Roche
– Performing La Mestiza: Textual Representations of Lesbians of Color and the Negotiation of Identities by Ellen Gil-Gomez
– The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989 by Bonnie Zimmerman
– Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714 by Harriette Andreadis
– Sexual Practice/Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism by Susan J. Wolfe and Julia Penelope
– Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969 by Jaye Zimet
– (Un)Familiar Femininities: Studies in Contemporary Lesbian South Asian Texts by Aneeta Rajendran
– Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in the Cinema by Andrea Weiss
– What Lesbians Do In Books by Elaine Hobby and Chris White
– With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians by Catriona Rueda Esquibel
– All the Rage: Reasserting Radical Lesbian Feminism by Lynne Harne and Elaine Miller
– Brazen Hussies: A Herstory of Radical Activism in the Women’s Liberation Movement in Victoria 1970–1979 by Jean Taylor
– Call Me Lesbian: Lesbian Lives, Lesbian Theory by Julia Penelope
– Country Lesbians: The Story of the WomanShare Collective by Sue Deevy
– Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes by Irena Klepfisz
– Dykes Loving Dykes: Dyke Separatist Politics for Lesbians Only by Bev Jo
– For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology by Sarah Lucia Hoagland
– The House That Jill Built: A Lesbian Nation in Formation by Becki Ross
– Lesbian Ethics by Sarah Lucia Hoagland
– Lesbian Feminism in Turn-of-the-Century Germany by Lillian Faderman and Brigitte Eriksson
– The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs by Estelle B. Freedman, Barbara C. Gelpi, and Susan L. Johnson
– Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures by Jeffner Allen
– Lesbian Philosophy: Explorations by Jeffner Allen
– The Lesbian Postmodern by Laura Doan
– The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon by Jaime Harker
– Lesbian/Woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon
– Lesbians Ignite!: In Victoria in the 1990s by Jean Taylor
– Lesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom by Beth Mintz and Esther D. Rothblum
– Love & Politics: Radical Feminist & Lesbian Theories by Carol Anne Douglas
– The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century by Bonnie Zimmerman
– Sappho Was a Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism by Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love
– Separatism and Women’s Community by Dana R. Shugar
– Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz: Selected Works by Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz
– The Straight Mind: And Other Essays by Monique Wittig
– Stroppy Dykes: Radical Lesbian Feminist Activism in Victoria During the 1980s by Jean Taylor
– This Is What Lesbian Looks Like: Dyke Activists Take on the 21st Century by Kris Kleindienst
– The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith by Irshad Manji
– Unleashing Feminism: A Critique of Lesbian Sadomasochism in the Gay Nineties by Irene Reti
– Volcanoes and Pearl Divers: Essays in Lesbian Feminist Studies by Suzanne Raitt
Anthologies: Lives and Relationships
– Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing by Catherine E. McKinley
– Beginnings: Lesbians Talk About the First Time They Met Their Long-Term Partner by Lindsey Elder
– Between the Lines: An Anthology by Pacific-Asian Lesbians of Santa Cruz, California by Cristy Chung
– Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About by Carla Trujillo
– Compañeras: Latina Lesbians: An Anthology by Juanita Ramos
– Does Your Mama Know? : An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories by Lisa C. Moore
– Dyke Life: From Growing Up to Growing Old, a Celebration of the Lesbian Experience by Karla Jay
– The Exploding Frangipani: Lesbian Writing from Australia and New Zealand by Cathie Dunsford
– Facing the Mirror: Lesbian Writing from India by Ashwini Sukthankar
– Finding the Lesbians: Personal Accounts from Around the World by Julia Penelope
– First Bloom: Stories of Blossoming Black Lesbian Love by Saydeah E. Howard
– Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence by Rosemary Curb and Nancy Manahan
– Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation by Rebecca T. Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell, and Shirley Idelson
– Lesbian Self-Writing: The Embodiment of Experience by Carol Lynda Hall
– Lesbians Speak Out by Carol Wilson
– Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology by Evelyn Torton Beck
– The Original Coming Out Stories by Julia Penelope
– Out of the Class Closet: Lesbians Speak by Julia Penelope
– Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology by Makeda Silvera
– Reclaiming the L-Word: Sappho’s Daughters Out in Africa by Alleyn Diesel
– Restricted Access: Lesbians on Disability by Victoria A. Brownworth and Susan Raffo
– Talking Black: African, Caribbean, and Asian Lesbians Speak Out by Valerie Mason-John
– They Will Know Me By My Teeth: Stories and Poems of Lesbian Struggle, Celebration, And Survival by Elana Dykewomon
– Write from the Heart: Lesbian Healing from Heartache by Anita L. Pace
