lesbian book recommendations! lit-fic, short stories, classics, sci-fi, fantasy

recommending every lesbian book I own! happy pride month! sorry I'm late!

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[lucian]

classics:
0:55 Passing by Nella Larsen
2:58 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
3:51 Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
4:44 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
7:10 Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
8:35 The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

contemporary lesbian novels:
9:55 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
11:36 The Very Nice Box by Laura Blackett
13:38 The Divines by Ellie Eaton
15:50 Shmutz by Felicia Berliner
17:40 Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily R. Austin
19:58 Nevada by Imogen Binnie
21:53 Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
23:32 Sedating Elaine by Dawn Winter
25:55 Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
27:23 Blackwave by Michelle Tea
29:00 Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai
30:24 Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi
32:20 Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
34:00 Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
36:21 A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow
37:34 Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

short stories (collections):
38:34 How to Wrestle a Girl by Venita Blackburn
39:59 Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country: and Other Stories by Chavisa Woods
41:07 Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang
42:26 Fruiting Bodies by Kathryn Harlan

[sarahs.]

Ah! Perfect timing! I've been wanting to pick up more lesbian fiction as my queer lit shelf needs more sapphics!

[stummyhort]

I love your channel because you always recommend books I haven't heard of elsewhere. Can't wait to give some of these a read! Also very grateful because I bought a copy of Mrs. Dalloway ages ago and then completely forgot about it LOL

I'm not sure if you've read it, but I'm reading She Who Became The Sun right now and I think you might like it. It's definitely more suited to a history-nerd-type because the plot is driven by politics, war, and the character's desire for power... but it's an incredibly poignant exploration of gender, and it's told in such a vivid and compelling way.

[Citizenofyoutube]

Hey, I love your videos and it's just a suggestion, like can you put a picture of the books on the screen when you talk about them, that would be really helpful.

[taylortimeless]

More suggestions:

I Love the Campus Queen by Marie Young: Set in the late 1950s, a college sophomore falls for her best friend’s older sister

The Senator’s Wife by Jen Lyon: A women’s soccer star falls for the wife of a Republican Senator

Ice Massacre by Tiana Werner: Girl falls for a mermaid

[buster]

I really enjoyed Everybody in this Room Will Someday be Dead. I'm a former Catholic and I thought it was hilarious how she was trying to fake being Catholic. I have anxiety because I have a rare heart condition. I relate to living with anxiety and having related mental health issues because of my diagnosis. The humor can be dark at times, but that's my style. I listened to the audiobook which was good.

[na_pauli]

I read passing once for myself and again for an university essay on passing. Until now I (a lesbian) have never thought about the sapphic elements of the novel. This is very interesting

[gilmore]

I've been meaning to read passing for awhile, definitely will now:) happy pride

[rachel-zsoc]

I highly recommend Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth. Haven’t finished it yet but the yearning is there!!

[emman]

Just added a bunch of these to my TBR! I was wondering if in the future you could put a list of the books and their authors in the description? 😁

[sadiebates]

every story in gods of want changed my life, truly an amazing collection

[cqglriq]

Me when I want to read all of them but I remember I live in Poland and that most of them aren't translated, cost three times more than non-foreign books and can't be find in our libraries: 🥲

[lilacfields]

thank you for this video! i actually recognized a good amount of the books here from you mentioning them before but appreciate the well worded summaries! i’m actually in the middle of Gods of Want and completely agree with you, gorgeous writing! will def check for a lot of these books at my library ☺️

[rustydollparts]

your videos are so comforting :( i cant wait to read these books 🩷🩷🩷

[tana-gusto]

thank you!! i was looking for what to read next, lesbians are getting fed <3

[blublukourtney]

I haven't seen this video yet so I do not know if this story comes in it, but I recommend Mountain ways by Ursula K le Guin. Iconic sci fi author, interesting saphic story, and craziest of all, written in 1996! Definitely ahead of its time.

[Ruby-kggk]

I would really recommend Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth!!! It's a beautiful lesbian romance set in 90's rural Ireland and is pretty recent and has beautiful prose.

[dldrtqf]

Perfect timing! The ones I've been reading haven't been hitting

[nataliasegal]

You have amazing taste in books! I want to read soooo many of these! Super interesting!

[nataliedc]

Thank you so much for all these amazing recs!