you stay open, i stay outside

i am the dog and you are the well-lit diner on a sunday night

[fairycosmos]

your problem is you think if you communicate with clarity and earnestness that people will actually understand you

[sabellart]

the ladybugs first appearance on the ed sullivan show c. 1964

[sabellart]

rb with close ups bc i spent way too much time on this good lord

[butterflypeaflowertea]

it’s so nice being fond of people on here :-) like yeah maybe we only know each other in a very limited way but i care abt you guys & hearing abt your lives makes me happy & i like listening to the things u have to say & i really truly wish the best for you all!!! sending my love from a couple states, countries, oceans away

[kopionkin]

also before 3 yrs ago i couldn't have even begun to imagine the freedom of posting whatever i want and acting as sillay as i want like this. you smell that? fresh ocean air baby no febreeze

[kopionkin]

many things in life feel vindicating but not quite as much as finally talking to someone who suffered the same fear and paranoia from being friends with one shitty pretentious bastard

[sanrio-stud]

there should be coming of age stories for people turning 30

[beaft]

being on the aro spectrum would be a lot easier if being single wasn't made to feel like a literal death sentence

[beaft]

it's all very well to say "friends are just as important as romantic partners" but in practice this simply is not the case lmao. you can share a flat with a friend but it's expected that sooner or later that friend will meet someone and will move out to go live with that person instead. if you're hanging out with friends you can bring your partner along but your friends can't come on a date night with you because that's third-wheeling and it's weird. you can know somebody for most of your life and still be second-best to some guy they met on tinder 6 months ago. you're meant to just accept without question the fact that your friends will prioritise time with their partners over time with you. being single is treated like a problem that needs to be fixed. we casually use expressions like "just friends" or "more than friends". everything we read and watch reinforces the idea that romantic love is what gives life meaning and therefore your life is meaningless without it. i try to keep my chin up but my god it is bleak out there

[kopionkin]

literally someone please stop me from snooping / stalking this ex-mutual's blog I am going to throw up from how stressed this is making me feel I didn't even know I felt this bad around him back then bc it was all so normal

[kopionkin]

OK GUYS SORRY ABOUT THE LINKS SPAM i was digging around for stuff

[monsteracademia]

monster theory 101

So anyone who has even glanced at my blog knows that a lot of my work is built around an area of literary theory called ‘monster theory’, which is far from a major theoretical discipline. As such I thought I’d give a little run down on what it is and resources that are good in terms of getting started.

Monster Theory is loosely described as the study of monsters, fictional characters that we (humans) deem monstrous. This is usually rooted in the concept of norm/other, which becomes human/monster. The basis of modern monster theory is built on the work of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, who published a paper in 1996 titled Monster Culture (Seven Theses) which included seven different and overlapping views on what monsters are, why we create them, what they mean and how they fit into both literary canon and our society. These seven theses are (very quickly and loosely);

The Monster’s Body Is A Cultural Body: a monstrous being “is born only at [a] metaphoric crossroads, as an embodiment of a certain cultural moment.” Meaning a monster created for a work of fiction is generally an embodiment of a certain cultural anxiety or fear occurring in a specific socio-cultural moment. For instance, during the 70s and 80s, during the AIDS crisis in the US, you’ll notice a sharp rise in the number of vampire films (creatures who transmit a kind of ‘death’ through bodily fluids, through a highly sexualised penetrative contact).

The Monster Always Escapes: a monstrous being is, in part, so threatening because it is pervasive. The monster might appear dead, only for the corpse to be missing in the final shots of the film. This builds upon the previous point; a cultural anxiety does not immediately vanish simply because the personified monster of it is slain, issues like disease, poverty, homophobia, racism, ableism will ultimately again rear their ugly heads.

The Monster Is The Harbinger of Category Crisis: monstrous beings refuse “to participate in the classificatory ‘order of things’,” and resist any kind of systematic structure. In a culture so obsessed with binary oppositions and classifications, things that refuse classification are often a threat to that very system of classification. If the system is not all-encompassing, it fails altogether. This can cause monsters to shake established systems of understanding culture, identity and knowledge. 

The Monster Dwells At The Gates of Difference: “…the monster is difference made flesh […] monstrous difference tends to be cultural, political, racial, economic, sexual.” Monstrous beings are, as previously mentioned, a cultural body, which also means generally they take on traits of ostracised members of a culture, and act as stand in’s for fears, phobias and ostracisation of these social groups. For example, in a later work by Cohen, Undead: A Zombie Oriented Ontology, he states of zombies; “…we feel no shame in declaring their bodies repulsive. They eat disgusting food. They possess no coherent language; it all sounds like grunts and moans. They desire everything we possess.” And further notes that the generally accepted method of dispatching them is a gunshot to the head–a war crime against another human being. This same rhetoric could easily be applied to conservative white opinions of immigrants–and in fact, the origin of the word zombie can be traced back to the Haitian slave trade route.

The Monster Polices The Borders Of The Possible: to live in the dynamic the monster is predicated upon (norm/other, human/monster), there must, therefore, be a border between the two. The monster can therefore serve as a warning; transgress the boundaries by which you are human, and become monstrous; “…the monster prevents mobility (intellectual, geographical, sexual).” The most popular examples of this theory comes in the form of a Disney film: Beauty and the Beast. The Prince does not extend hospitalities to the old woman seeking aid, acting outside an accepted code of conduct for their society, and is therefore rendered monstrous as a result. While this is a more direct example, the trope is pervasive even among works and genres not featuring the supernatural.

The Monster Is Really A Kind Of Desire: the monstrous is often associated with a kind of transgressive or forbidden action, like say…the fact that female villains will often take on intense temptress roles, this is usually in an attempt to enforce and normalise the opposite behaviour. “The same creatures who terrify and interdict can also evoke potent escapist fantasies; the linking of monstrosity with the forbidden makes the monster all the more appealing as a temporary egress from constraint.”

The Monster Stands At The Threshold…Of Becoming: This thesis is really only a paragraph and is possibly my favourite piece of writing ever so rather than try and explain it I’ll simply let it stand on it’s own: Monsters are our children. They can be pushed to the farthest margins of geography and discourse, hidden away at the edges of the world and in the forbidden recesses of our mind, but they always return. And when they come back, they bring not just a fuller knowledge of our place in history and the history of knowing our place, but they bear self-knowledge, human knowledge–and a discourse all the more sacred as it arises from the Outside. These monsters ask us how we perceive the world, and how we have misrepresented what we have attempted to place. They ask us to reevaluate our cultural assumptions about race, gender, sexuality, our perception of difference, our tolerance towards its expression. They ask us why we have created them.

It is important to note that while this essay is considered fundamental in the concept of monster theory and it’s study, Cohen’s work is built upon work like Julia Kristeva’s Power of Horror: Essays on Abjection, and Barbara Creed’s Monstrous-Feminine. Additions to the field have been added since then; collected editions like the Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters, Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters, as well as essays in journals, collected editions on other wider topics (like horror, fantasy, sociology in literature). But the field is still relatively small at this point. I’ll be putting together a sort of reading list at some point in a post about where you can really get a good overview of the area, but the central starting point for monster theory is decidedly Cohen’s essay (which is the introductory chapter to an entire book on the subject). 

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the age of social media: a reading list

note: all hyperlinked texts are either open-access academic works or public-facing articles, & most other texts are accessible through various pdf-hosting websites.

books

the age of surveillance capitalism by shoshanna zuboff (2019)

the burnout society by byung-chul han, tr. erik butler (2015)

control: digitality as cultural logic by seb franklin (2015)

dark matters: on the surveillance of blackness by simone browne (2015)

the death algorithm and other digital dilemmas by roberto simanowski, tr. jefferson chase (2018)

the end of forgetting: growing up with social media by kate eichhorn (2019)

in the swarm: digital politics by byung-chul han, tr. erik butler (2012)

the politics of dating apps: gender, sexuality, and emergent publics in urban china by lik sam chan (2021)

the transparency society by byung-chul han, tr. erik butler (2015)

weaving the dark web: legitimacy on freenet, tor, and i2p by robert gehl (2018)

articles

ambivalent influencers: feeling rules and the affective practice of anxiety in social media influencer work by mari lehto (2021)

capitalism, patriarchy, slavery, and racism in the age of digital capitalism and digital labour by christian fuchs (2017)

children are our future: resistance, addiction and the digital natives by rob horning (2010)

#dadtribe: performing sharenting labour to commercialise involved fatherhood by mario campana, astrid van den bossche, and bryoney miller (2020)

disintegrated bodies from cyborg microcelebrities to capital flow: a post-phenomenological investigation of disembodiment by riad salameh (2021)

the drama of metrics: status, spectacle, and resistance among youtube drama creators by angèle christin and rebecca lewis (2021)

#familygoals: family influencers, calibrated amateurism, and justifying young digital labor by crystal abidin (2017)

fragments on microcelebrity by rob horning (2012)

imagined affordances of instagram and the fantastical authenticity of female gulf-arab social media influencers by zoe hurley (2019)

improbable curators: analysing nostalgia, authorship and audience on tumblr microblogs by dinu gabriel munteanu (2017)

instagram use, instamums, and anxiety in mothers of young children by mara moujaes and diarmuid verrier (2020)

micro­microcelebrity: branding babies on the internet by crystal abidin (2015)

power through the algorithm? participatory web cultures and the technological unconscious by david beer (2009)

“running the numbers”: modes of microcelebrity labor in queer women’s self-representation on instagram and vine by stefanie duguay (2019)

selling brands while staying “authentic”: the professionalization of instagram influencers by loes van driel, delia dumitrica (2020)

seo and the disappearing self by rob horning (2010)

social media as masochism by rob horning (2016)

social media is not self-expression by rob horning (2012)

speaking to no one by rob horning (2017)

verbal venting in the social web: effects of anonymity and group norms on aggressive language use in online comments by leonie rösner and nicole c. krämer (2016)

vlogging parlance by sophie bishop (2018)

[northwindow]

on cycles

a syllabus of orbits, loops, repetitions, and returns

loops, the limits of language, the paradoxical loneliness of "i love you," and what keeps love alive by maria popova

an installment of popova's newsletter the marganialian that draws on the writing of roland barthes. popova begins by describing her repeated daily walking routes, drawing a connection between the repetition of movement and the repetition of speech and feeling-- the recurrent declaration of "i love you."

why did our universe begin? with roger penrose

video with nobel prizewinning physicist roger penrose that explains his theory of "conformal cyclic cosmology": that our universe's deep past bears a similarity to its deep future, giving evidence for an infinitely cycling timeline. see the essay "time after time" by paul halpern for more on physics and cyclical time.

time, space, and the eclipse of the earth (part i: abstraction) by david abram

from ecologist and philosopher david abram's book the spell of the sensuous. in this section, he distinguishes broadly between how space and time are viewed in oral cultures and literate cultures. he focuses on the alignment between oral cultures and a cyclical model of time, discussing why alphabets and writing might affect the way space-time manifests in a cultural imagination.

the hero with a thousand faces by joseph campbell

book by mythologist and literature professor joseph campbell describing his archetypical "hero's journey" cycle, a basic multi-step plot shared by myths and stories across many centuries and cultures (also called a "monomyth"). for a condensed version of the hero's journey, see this diagram by lisa paltz spindler designed for the gunn center for the study of science fiction.

"on small seasons and long calendars" by ross zurowski

essay by designer ross zurowski on how we divide and mark time, arguing that we should begin to divide our lives into more organic and useful phases. the essay is inspired in part by the sekki, short descriptive seasons used by farmers in ancient china and japan-- you can see a list of sekki (along with twitter and ical notifications) at zurowski's a guide to understanding small seasons.

wintering by katherine may

book by british writer katherine may on literal and metaphorical winters. may writes about the necessity to periodically experience darkness throughout life, meditating on the winter solstice, cold water swimming, the northern lights, hibernation and fairy tales to illustrate how wintering can catalyze self-renewal.

"ouroboricisms" by alice lesperance

medium essay about trauma that uses the ouroboros as a metaphor for the circular reconstruction of memory. lesperance draws from mystics and writers julian of norwich, anne carson, margery kempe, and flannery o'connor and their engagement with the repetition and recreation of wounds.

"on reset" by brian blanchfield

a meditation by poet brian blanchfield from his essay collection proxies about discovering a series of audition tapes in which the same scene is repeatedly recast with different actresses. he draws a comparison between the audition scene and poetic repetition, not only in the structure of poems but in our engagement with poetry itself.

[zarzava]

three romanian authors to read with ur dracula daily

dracula is an orientalist text conceived at the height of british empire, grounded in distortions of a region that stoker never visited. sadly (and unsurprisingly) i found very few romanian authors who have been translated into english online, so here’s a meagre list of recs:

1. luminița cioabă

romanian roma author, famous in romania as the daughter of bulibasha (the king of the roma nation), she forged her own path as a writer of short stories in the oral roma tradition which portray in vivid detail the history of the roma people of romania 

the birch grove

queen of the night and stone flower 

meralda

from her book, the lost country 

2. marin sorescu

from humble rural romanian roots, he wrote under the oppressive ceausescu government. in a national ironic tradition he very famously said: "Just as I can’t give up smoking because I don’t smoke, I can’t give up writing because I have no talent.“ some of my favorite poems:

the sea shell (1983)

carbon paper (1980)

creation (1992)

3. paul celan

jewish romanian poet from bucovina. i recommend this beautiful essay by ilya kaminsky, who like celan was forced to flee eastern europe due to antisemitism, deconstructing various translators’ attempts to adapt celan’s texts and experience of the holocaust. these are all poems from a 1971 poetry collection

all souls

leap-centuries 

language mesh and night

homecoming

[letterful]

Do you have a list or something of your favourite academic/theory books? 🥺

sure! all of them should be available on libgen, so enjoy 🧚🏻‍♀️ i did focus on cultural histories rather than theory, though, otherwise it would get too long. virtually all of them are published by academic presses, and well-sourced and peer-reviewed. no pseudoscience in this household, no sirree! (also, none of them have anything to do with my actual field of study. i’m just like that)

— Medieval Ghost Stories: An Anthology of Miracles, Marvels and Prodigies, — Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages, — After Lives: A Guide to Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, — Darkness: A Cultural History, — Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris, — Angels & Angelology in the Middle Ages, — Enchanted Europe: Superstition, Reason, and Religion 1250-1750, — Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science, — The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England, — Landscapes of Fear, — Strangers, Gods and Monsters: Interpreting Otherness, — The Severed Head: Capital Visions, — Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural, — Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology, — When the Dead Rise: Narratives of the Revenant, from the Middle Ages to the Present Day, — Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History, — Religion and Its Monsters, — On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears, — The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History, — Visions of the End: Apocalyptic Traditions in the Middle Ages, — Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art, — Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, — From Gods to God: How the Bible Debunked, Suppressed, Or Changed Ancient Myths and Legends, — A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire, — Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and Other Airborne Females, — The Spectral Arctic: A History of Dreams and Ghosts in Polar Exploration, — Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds, — Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages, — Grimoires: A History of Magic Books, — Dark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers,

etc, etc, etc. 

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here it is a collection of poems about hope and or holding on despite everything !

I Am Not Ready To Die Yet by Aracelis Girmay

A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde

Snowdrops by Louise Glück

Most Days I Want to Live by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Insha’Allah by Danusha Laméris

A Good Day by Kait Rokowski

Invitation by Mary Oliver

Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón

Tommorow is a Place by Sanna Wani

The World Has Need of You by Ellen Bass

Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower by Rainer Maria Rilke

To the Young Who Want to Die by Gwendolyn Brooks

Night Walk by Franz Wright

Sorrow is Not My Name by Ross Gay

Everything Is Waiting For You by David Whyte

The Letter by Linda Greg

Testify by Eve L. Ewing

Every Day as a Wide Field, Every Page by Naomi Shihab Nye

[frederick-the-great]

I have heard the Youth's concerns about problematic media and so I've decided to compile a list of non-problematic books you all should definitely read!! #tikok

Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger. A classic of Young Adult Lit.

Forbidden Colours by Yukio Mishima. A beautiful story of friendship between a young man and his older mentor. Great for anyone who uses the word sempai unironically.

Dangerous Liaisons by Chloderlos de Laclos. A roguish French aristocrat unintentionally falls in love and decides to change his life. Lovers to Enemies.

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. Basically, Call me by your Name for Adults.

Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac. A bunch of friends living their best life in a Parisian tenancy.

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Love Boat but down the Congo River.

Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. A 19th century mock-documentary into the ups and downs of a Russian family.

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Marie Remarque. If you liked Little Life, you will LOVE this.

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Your twitter bffs band together and decide to live in a picturesque New England town.

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. A 14th century retelling of Heartstopper.

[biandlesbianliterature]

The Lesbrary Goodreads Project

So after running this tumblr and the Lesbrary for a couple years, I’ve gathered together a couple lists of specific lesbian (etc) books about specific topics, and I’ve stumbled on some similar lists other people have made. In order to keep them a little more organized, I’ve decided to put them all up on Goodreads. Here are the ones I have so far:

Specific identities:

Books With Asexual Spectrum F/F Romances  (also see Asexual Lesbians/ Asexual Women in Fiction)

Bisexual Women Fiction and Memoirs

Trans Lesbian (Bisexual, etc) Books

Non-Binary (Genderqueer, Genderfluid, Gender-Unspecified, etc) Fiction and Memoirs

Butch lesbian characters

Butch women and female masculinity

Butch/Femme couples (also check out the butch-femme shelf)

Queer Female Authors of Color 

Books by Lesbian Writers of Colour 

Fiction about queer and lesbian women of color

QPoC YA/NA (Queer People of Color Young Adult/New Adult)

Interracial Lesbian Fiction

Asian Lesbian and Queer Women Fiction

Fiction Novels with Black Lesbian Characters

Chicana/Latina Lesbian Books

Lesbian Jewish Fiction

Lesbian Jewish Sleuths

Queer Islam 

Canadian Lesbian Fiction and Memoirs

Italian Lesbian Books

British Lesbian Fiction Books (Also check out UK Lesbian Fiction)

Australian LGBTQ YA

Swedish Lesbian Fiction 

Faith-Positive LGBTQIA+ Fiction /  GLBTQ Christian Fiction

Lesbian & Bi Women with Mental Illness 

Lesbian Fiction With a Character with a Disability

General:

Best Lesbian Fiction

Autostraddle's 100 Best Lesbian Fiction & Memoir Books Of All Time

Lesbian Canon

Lesbian novels from before 1990

Best Lesbian Novel Series

Casually Queer Books

Lesbian Fiction in the Kindle Unlimited program 

Best Lesbian Books Available On Audible  (see also Lesbian Audiobooks and the Lesbian Audiobooks Facebook group)

Speculative Fiction (SFF and Horror):

Fantasy & Sci-Fi Featuring Lesbian Characters

Bi WOC SFF

Lesbian and Bisexual Women (etc) Sci Fi / Lesbian Sci-Fi

Lesbian Fantasy

Lesbian & Bi Women Medieval Fantasy 

Lesbian and Bi Women Dystopians

F/F Paranormal and Urban Fantasy

Lesbian & Bi Women Fairy Books (Stories about fairies)

Lesbian & Bi Women Cyberpunk

Lesbian Steampunk Books

Lesbian Horror

Lesbian Zombie Books

Lesbian Ghost Stories

Lesbian Werewolf Books

Lesbian Vampire Books

Queer Mermaid Books

Young Adult/Teen/Children’s:

Lesbian Teen Fiction

QPoC YA/NA (Queer People of Color Young Adult/New Adult)

YA LGBT Books - Not “Coming Out”

Lesbian & Bi Women YA SFF

2016 f/f SFF (sci-fi & fantasy) with HEA/HFN 

Lesbian Historical YA

Bisexual Fiction in YA

Queer Girl YA with Happy Endings / Best Teen Lesbian Books with Happy Endings

Beyond Heather Has Two Mommies: Picture Books with LGBT Parents

Children’s & teen fiction featuring lesbian mothers 

Australian LGBTQ YA

Romance and Erotica:

Best F/F Romance Books / Lesbian Romance

F/F/F Love Triangles (and poly triads)

Erotic Lesbian Novels

Lesbian Erotica Collections 

Funny Lesbian Romance books

Best Femme/Femme Couples

Lesbian Romantic Suspense

Lesbian May/December Romance

F/F Tearjerkers

Romantic Lesbians In Uniform

F/F Office Romances (Coworkers)

F/F Enemies/ Rivals/ Forbidden Love

Lesbian Romance with Characters Who Are Famous 

Angsty Lesbian Romance with a Happy Ending

F/F Romance Without The Drama 

F/F BDSM

F/F Bondage in Fiction

F/F Spanking Romance 

Non-YA lesbian/bi lady fiction without explicit sex scenes (”Fade To Black” F/F)

Nonfiction:

Lesbian-Feminist Nonfiction

Lesbian Humor Books

Lesbian Photography

Lesbian Self Help

Lesbian Memoirs

Lesbian history

Books On Femme Idenities

Best Lesbian Poetry

Best Lesbian Graphic Novels

Yuri Manga in English

Specific genres/content:

Lesbian Short Stories

Lesbian Anthologies 

Historical Lesbian Fiction

Lesbian Westerns

Lesbian WWII Historical Fiction

Regency, Victorian and Edwardian WLW 

Lesbian Pulp Fiction

Lesbian Fairy Tales

Queer Princesses (see also Lesbian Princesses in Fiction)

Lesbian Retellings

Best Lesbian Mysteries

Novels about Lesbian sleuths (Detectives & Mystery Novels)

Lesbian Private Investigators 

Lesbian & Bi Cozy Mysteries

Lesbian Psychological Suspense Novels 

Lesbian New Adult/Contemporary 

Lesbian Spy/Military/Cop

Lesbian Spy Novels

Lesbian Police Fiction 

Lesbian Doctors

Lesbian Nuns in Fiction and Memoir 

Lesbian Pirates

Toxic Lesbian Relationships

Lesbian Books Happy Ending 

Lesbian Feelgood Books

Lesbian Fiction Set In New York City

Lesbian Fiction Set In the American South

Lesbian Fiction Trope: Childhood Friends Reunited

Lesbian Romance: BFF turned lovers

Lesbian Fiction with Sports Theme

Lesbian Christmas Books / F/F Winter Holiday Books

Lesbians In Cold Places

A Lesbian Wilderness

Queer Women Road Trip Books

Lesbian Witch Books

Lesbrarian (Lesbian Librarian) Books

Lesbians and Cats

Sapphistry & Saddlery (Lesbian Horse/Equestrian Books) 

Non-YA Lesbian/Bi Lady Fiction Without Explicit Sex Scenes 

Pregnant Lesbians and Lesbian Mothers 

Lesbian books on alcoholism and sobriety 

Lesbian Beach Reads

Good Lesbian Books’s lists that I haven’t put on Goodreads:

Lesbian Historical Fiction

Lesbian Knights in Fiction

Lesbian Librarians in Fiction and Nonfiction

Lesbians with Physical Disabilities

Lesbian Shapeshifter Fiction

Lesbians in Space: A Reading List

Lesbian Steampunk Stories

Lesbian Time Travel Fiction

Lesbian YA With A Non-Lesbian Main Character

Lesbian YA Historical Fiction

Transgender Young Adult Fiction

Good Lesbian Fantasy Novels 

Lesbian Lawyer Books 

Lesbian First Responder Romances 

Award-winning Graphic Novels 

Award-winning Romance and Erotica (unfinished) 

Award-winning Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction 

Picture Books For Children With Lesbian Parents

Depression in Lesbian Fiction

Time Travel Lesbian Fiction

Other lists not yet on Goodreads:

50 Books by Lesbian Writers of Colour & 49 More Books by Lesbian Writers of Colour

A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians (1960)

The good thing about the Goodreads lists is that you can add books and vote for your favorites!

Support the Lesbrary and Bi & Les Lit on Patreon for $2 or more a month and be entered into monthly book giveaways!