A-WLW-Reads Reviews Masterlist
I’ve had this blog for over a year now and I feel like a lot of great books get lost in the shuffle so I’m going to be continuously updating this list, arranged by genre, of books I’ve reviewed or recommended (and personally have read)!
Contemporary (Middle Grade)
Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
P.S. I Miss You by Jen Petro-Roy
Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
Star-Crossed by Barbara Dee
Contemporary (Young Adult)
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson
Dating Sarah Cooper by Siera Maley
Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard
A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend by Emily Horner
Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown
Run by Kody Keplinger
Empress of the World by Sara Ryan
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
Tessa Masterson Will Go to Prom by Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin
Far From Xanadu by Julie Anne Peters
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz
Good Moon Rising by Nancy Garden
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
The Year They Burned the Books by Nancy Garden
My Best Friend, Maybe by Caela Carter
If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan
Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock
Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde
Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan
Ship It by Britta Lundin
37 Things I Love (In No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon
Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen
Keeping You A Secret by Julie Anne Peters
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
What We Left Behind by Robin Talley
Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley
Kissing Kate by Lauren Myracle
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
Scars by Cheryl Rainfield
The Difference Between You and Me by Madeline George
Moon at Nine by Deborah Ellis
Sister Mischief by Laura Goode
Final Draft by Riley Redgate
Being Emily by Rachel Gold
Kaleidoscope Song by Fox Benwell
The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding
You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan
Contemporary
Landing by Emma Donoghue
Truth Weekend by Erin Jones
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
I Can’t Think Straight by Shamim Sarif
Last Words from Montmartre by Qui Miaojin
Edge of Glory by Rachel Spangler
Disobedience by Naomi Adlerman
Waiting in the Wings by Melissa Brayden
My Education by Susan Choi
Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson
The Paths of Marriage by Mala Kumar
Thaw by Elyse Springer
Challah and Callaloo by La Toya Hankins
Out on Good Behavior by Dahlia Adler
Double Exposure by Chelsea M. Cameron
Roller Girl by Vanessa North
Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst
Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Far From Home by Lorelie Brown
The Others by Seba Al-Herz
A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar
In the Silence by Jaimie Leigh McGovern
Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam
Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu
Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman
Tailor-Made by Yolanda Wallace
Fantasy
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova (YA)
Ash by Malinda Lo (YA)
Robins in the Night by Dajo Jago
Love in the Time of Global Warming and The Island of Excess Love by Francesca Lia Block (YA)
About A Girl by Sarah McCarry (YA)
Huntress by Malinda Lo (YA)
Libyrinth by Pearl North (YA)
The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer
Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust (YA)
Gretel: A Fairy Tale Retold by Niamh Murphy
The Shattering by Karen Healey (YA)
The Witch Sea by Sarah Diemer
The Second Mango by Shira Glassman
Of Fire and Stars and Inkmistress by Audrey Coulthurst (YA)
The Prince and Her Dreamer by Kayla Bashe
Cinnamon Blade: Knife in Shining Armor by Shira Glassman
Science Fiction
The Abyss Surrounds Us and The Edge of the Abyss by Emily Skrutskie (YA)
Dreadnought and Sovereign by April Daniels (YA)
Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis (YA)
The Long Way to A Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Finding Hekate by Kellie Doherty
Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee (YA)
Valhalla by Ari Bach
Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge
Adaptation, Inheritance, and Natural Selection by Malinda Lo (YA)
That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston (YA)
Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi
Warrior Woman by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Necrotech by K.C. Alexander
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
Sappho’s Bar and Grill by Bonnie J. Morris
Historical
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Wildthorn by Jane Eagland (YA)
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flag
Honey Girl by Lisa Freeman
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
The Necessary Hunger by Nina Revoyr (YA)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
The Ada Decades by Paula Martinac
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley (YA)
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Affinity by Sarah Waters
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Odd Girl Out by Ann Bannon
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
Another Life Altogether by Elaine Beale (YA)
Hood by Emma Donoghue
The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery
Loving Her by Ann Allen Shockley
Hild by Nicola Griffith
Bittersweet by Nevada Barr
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Against the Season by Jane Rule
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Poetry
Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Heppermann (YA)
The Monkey’s Mask by Dorothy Porter
The Black Unicorn: Poems by Audre Lorde
Coal by Audre Lorde
The Cold and the Rust: Poems by Emily Van Kley
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho trans. Anne Carson
Living as a Lesbian: Poetry by Cheryl Clarke
Not Vanishing by Chrystos
Rock | Salt | Stone by Rosamond S. King
Mystery/Thriller
Jam Jars by Yonnette Anderson
Finder of Lost Objects by Susie Hara
A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo (YA)
Far From You by Tess Sharpe (YA)
Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta (YA)
Steampunk
Heart of Brass by Morven Moeller
Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear (YA)
Everfair by Nisi Shawl
The Dark Victorian: Risen, The Dark Victorian: Bones and Ice Demon by Elizabeth Watasin
Memoir
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay and That’s When My Nightmare Began by Alex Cooper
The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin
How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir by Amber Dawn
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger by Kelly Cogswell
(See also Spinning, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, and Snapshots of a Girl under Graphic Novels)
Horror/Paranormal
Bleeding Earth by Kaitlin Ward (YA)
As I Descended by Robin Talley (YA)
Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace (YA)
Mad House: Vengeful Vampires by Bria Lin
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (YA)
The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Hocus Pocus & The All-New Sequel by A.W. Jantha (YA)
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
Nonfiction
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in the Twentieth-Century by Lillian Faderman
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America - A History by Lillian Faderman
Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution by Linda Hirshman
Sappho Was A Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism by Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love
Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians by Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons
Tell: Love, Defiance, and the Military Trial at the Tipping Point for Gay Rights by Major Margaret Witt with Tim Connor
Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women by Leila J. Rupp
Anthology/Short Stories
Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction edited by Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba
Compreñeras: Latina Lesbians: An Anthology edited by Juanita Ramos
Speaking for Ourselves: Short Stories by Jewish Lesbians edited by Irene Zahava
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue
All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens edited by Saundra Mitchell (YA)
Bareed Mista3jil edited by Meem
Tangled Sheets: Stories & Poems of Lesbian Lust edited by Rosamund Elwin and Karen X. Tulchinsky
The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories edited by Margaret Reynolds
A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett
The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction edited by Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle
Dispatches from Lesbian America edited by Xequina Maria Berber, Giovanna Capone, and Cheela Romain Smith
Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence edited by Rosemary Curb and Nancy Manahan
The Lesbian Path edited by Margaret Cruikshank
Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence edited by Marion Dane Bauer (YA)
The Dirt Chronicles by Kristyn Dunnion
Mentsh: On Being Jewish and Queer edited by Angela Brown
Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft edited by Jessica Spotswood and Tess Sharpe
Graphic Novel/Comic
Skim by Mariko Tamaki
Bingo Love by Tee Franklin
Spinning by Tillie Walden
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Motor Crush Vol. 1 and Motor Crush Vol. 2 by Brenden Fletcher
Moonstruck, Vol. 1: Magic to Brew by Grace Ellis (MG)
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi
Snapshots of a Girl by Beldan Sezen
Love Is Love: A Comic Book Anthology to Benefit the Survivors of the Orlando Pulse Shooting
Bombshells by Marguerite Bennett
Heavy Vinyl by Carly Usdin
