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Dorothy Allison
Bastard out of Carolina
A coming of age narrative, written from the perspective of Bone, the out-of-wedlock (hence, bastard) young daughter of one of the fiercely proud, dirt-poor Boatwrights of Greenville County, South Carolina.
Cavedweller
A woman returns to the daughters she abadoned ten years earlier.
Lisa Alther
Other women
All her life Caroline Kelly has been a member of the helping professions. But when her lover wants to end their relationship, she finds that she is the one who needs the help.
Luanne Armstrong
Bordering
About coming out as a lesbian and taking charge of the future.
Dodici Azpadu
Goat song
A gritty story of urban life in San Francisco.
Saturday night in the prime of life
The relationship between middle-aged lovers Lindy and Neddie is threatened by Neddie’s selfish and domineering Sicilian mother.
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Djuna Barnes
Nightwood
A classic of lesbian literature, acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th century.
Alison Bechdel
Dykes to watch out for series
Fun home
An autobiographical family “tragicomic“, focusing on Bechdel's relationship with her repressed homosexual father, and her eventual coming out. Fun home is highly recommended.
Marci Blackman
Po Man's Child
Opening with a detailed, gory description of ritualistic injury in the context of lesbian S&M, Blackman renders her theme - the tragedy of the American family - in extreme terms that may disturb some readers.
Blance McCarthy Boyd
Terminal velocity
Ellen changes her name to Rain and moves to a radical lesbian commune in California called red Moon Rising.
Brigid Brophy
The finishing touch
Comedy – as disaster hits an exclusive finishing school on the French Riviera.
In transit
A witty and perceptive tale of sexual ambivalence set in an airport lounge.
Rebecca Brown
The haunted house
As Robin and her lover set about building their dream house, Robin is haunted by old ghosts.
Rita Mae Brown
Alma mater
Just when beautiful Vic decides what she wants to do with her life, she discovers that fate has its own unexpected plan waiting in the wings.
Rubyfruit Jungle
The story of a gutsy girl from rural Pennsylvania who moves to New York and lives her life as a sexually liberated lesbian. A classic.
Sylvia Brownrigg
Pages for you
A tale of first love set at an elite East Coast university in the US, involving a relationship between student and tutor.
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Fiesta Carrera
Charnel knowledge
This book takes aim at lesbian bloodlust, Anzacs, psychiatrists and missionaries in a flagrant, sexually-charged comedy crossed with science fiction thriller..........!!!
Frances Cherry
Dancing with strings
Katherine has muddled along all her life being battered by relationships; until she goes to live by herself and comes to terms with what she really wants.
Caro Clarke
The wolf ticket
A lesbian romance set against the backdrop of WW2.
Jan Clausen
The Prosperine papers
After having a rough year, Dale’s life is indelibly marked by an encounter with two remarkable “ancestors”.
Sinking stealing
A powerful novel on the subject of lesbian parenting, set in contemporary America.
Fiona Cooper
Blossom at the mention of your name
Life on the edges is portrayed with wit, humour and compassion.
Heartbreak on the High Sierra
Western romance with gun-toting superwomen, Indian mythology and a touch of fantasy.
Jay loves Lucy
Jay falls in love with a straight woman, seemingly devoted only to her son.
Not the Swiss family Robinson
A young woman in small town USA comes to accept being adopted and being a lesbian in a very straight world.
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Julia Darling
Crocodile soup
Gert deals with her telepathic link to her twin brother Frank and is wracked by hopeless love for Eva, the coffee girl at the museum
Stevie Davies
Closing the book
An insightful look at a relationship coming apart under the stress of one partner’s serious illness.
Dola De Jong
The tree and the vine
A dutch novel set just prior to WWII, simply and delicately portraying the relationship between two women.
Elise D’Heane
Licking our wounds
An intimate portrait of longing and awakening in the age of AIDS.
Kay Dick
The shelf
A mystery set in 1960’s Britain, retold through a letter to a friend.
Emma Donoghue
Hood
When her lover of 13 years is killed in a car accident, Pen O’Grady is forced to take an honest look at her past before setting out to make a new life.
Lauren Wright Douglas
In the blood
A science fiction novel where America has become the accidental victim of biological warfare and is under forcible quarantine from the rest of the world.
Sarah Dreher
Solitaire and brahms
An account of American, lesbian life, pre-Stonewall.
Maureen Duffy
Illuminations: a fable
A retired history lecturer goes to Germany and becomes involved in a lesbian relationship and political unrest.
Patricia Duncker
James Miranda Barry
The sweeping saga of a woman who lives in a man’s world.
Cathie Dunsford
Cowrie
Cowrie is a lesbian orphan who travels to Hawaii in search of her true Pacific heritage.
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Leslie Feinberg
Stone butch blues
A powerful, moving novel about Jess, who must learn the complexities of being a transgender person in the straight world of America in the 60s and 70s.
Fannie Flagg
Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
After Idgie saves Ruth from an abusive marriage, these two friends become partners in running the Whistle Stop Café. Although they are never called lesbians” it is the story of love between two women.
Katherine V. Forrest
Curious Wine
Diana is greeted by an all-female group of strangers when she goes off to Lake Tahoe for a gambling weekend with her best friend. Among them is the gorgeous Lane who leaves Diana undone.
Flashpoint
A political activist gathers gay and lesbian friends together on the eve of a political decision with far-reaching ramifications.
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Ellen Galford
The dyke and the dybbuk
London taxi driver and film critic Rainbow Rosenbloom is “haunted” by a friendly dybbuk, who has problems of her own.
The fires of bride
Humorous romance set in the Hebrides, steeped in Celtic mythology and magic.
Moll Cutpurse: her true history
The adventures of a swashbuckling lesbian heroine in Elizabethan London.
Sally Miller Gearhart
Wanderground: stories of the Hill Women
Fantasy: a lesbian feminist Utopia is under threat from the men “outside”.
Jewelle Gomez
The Gilda stories
A set of stories linked through a black, Southern American woman spanning two hundred years.
Jaimy Gordon
Bogeywoman
The bittersweet coming of age story of a lesbian girl.
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H.D
Paint it today
Previously unpublished autobiographical novel of H.D.’s search for the love which would empower her spiritually, sexually and creatively.
Radclyffe Hall
The unlit lamp
The story of Joan, whose relationship with her “gentle tyrant” of a mother strangles her budding love for Elizabeth.
Well of loneliness
A classic lesbian love story, first published in 1928 and banned as indecent.
Sandi Hall
The Godmothers
Science fiction “embodying a brave new vision of a world rooted in the power of love between women”.
Wingwomen of Hera
Science fiction: the destiny of two very different planets change after a comet falls between them.
Ebba Haslund
Nothing happened
Three young women students explore friendship and love at the University of Oslo in 1939.
Marianne Hauser
The talking room
Explores the paradoxes of our lives, our need for love and our talent for self-destruction.
Ellen Hawley
Trip sheets
Novel about coming out without coming down.
Patricia Highsmith
Carol
A classic lesbian novel first published in 1952, tells the story of two conventional women whose lives are irrevocably changed when they fall in love.
Naomi Holoch
Offseason
About a lesbian love affair set in Paris.
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Annamarie Jagose
In translation
After being abandoned by her lover in a country she doesn’t fully understand, Helena’s pride doesn’t allow her to return home.
Karin Kallmaker
One degree of separation
Liddy is a stranger in a small town where everyone knows your business. She lusts after reference librarian Marian who is thankful that at least they don't have an ex-girlfriend in common!
Sheila Kohler
Cracks
Follows twelve girls in a South African boarding school in the 1960s, all of whom are in love with their lesbian swim instructor Miss G.
Catherine Lewis
Dry fire
The story of a lesbian police rookie struggling to be the best human being she can.
Heather Lewis
House rules
A disturbing look at a teenage girl’s attempts to transform her brutal world through sex and drugs.
Anna Livia
Bruised fruit
An intertwining tale of peoples loves and fears
Relatively Norma
Minnie, a London lesbian feminist, flies to Australia to come out to her family, only to find them in turmoil.
Audre Lorde
Zami: a new spelling of my name
A “biomythography“ covering the author's life as an African-American lesbian in the 1950s.
Jax Peters Lowell
Mothers
Willy is a boy with loving, supportive parents who are both women.
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Dacia Maraini
Letters to Marina
Letters between two women after the break-up of their relationship.
Caeia March
Between the worlds
By well-known lesbian author of “Three ply yarn”.
Reflections
A woman finds her fantasies about the legend of Tristan and Iseult encroaching on her real life.
Paula Martinac
Home movies
Teresa, a lesbian writer in New York, has to come to terms with the death of her beloved uncle who has died of AIDS.
Out of time
Susan “accidentally” steals a scrapbook of women’s photos from the 1920’s and later feels haunted by the women. Set in New York.
Isabel Miller
Side by side
Two young women rediscover each other and their love, in New York City.
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Denise Neuhaus
The love of women
Against her better judgement, Kristina becomes involved with an emotionally vulnerable younger woman, with disastrous consequences.
Leslea Newman
In every laugh a tear
Shayna is falling in love with Luz, a Puerto Rican butch with bedroom eyes. But her main concern is her beloved grandmother who has moved to a nursing home.
Out of the closet and nothing to wear
A series of fictional comedy adventures featuring femme author Leslea Newman and her beloved butch, Flash Newman.
Amy Oleson
Love and memory
Liz, who is recovering from a failed relationship, finds love with Glenn; an unexpected passion…
Gail Pass
Surviving sisters
After a devastating family tragedy, Irena must confront her own psyche and sexuality.
Terri de la Pena
Latin satins
Tells the story of the lives and loves of a group of Chicana singers in California.
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Renee 
Daisy and Lily
Childhood sweethearts Daisy and Lily are finally together again, but they still have a rough road ahead.
Does this make sense to you?
Flora leaves her husband and moves in with her lesbian friend Ka, as she attempts to come to terms with her past and move forward into her future.
Willy Nilly
When Polly decides to get married, the stage is set for turmoil… with parents like hers, this will be a wedding with a difference.
Robert Rodi
What they did to Princess Paragon
A brash gay cartoonist is charged with updating the image of a virtuous comic strip heroine… but is the world ready for it’s first lesbian superhero?
Pat Rosier
Poppy's progress
Poppy is a gay, over-forty Auckland schoolteacher who discovers that you can be surprised even by those who are closest to you.
Jane Rule
This is not for you
Kate loves and worships Eleanor, who she can never bring herself to share a life with.
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Diane Salvatore
Love, Zena Beth
A young New York reporter becomes involved with her heroine - but at what cost?
Paxton Court
Residents of a picturesque cul-de-sac discover their newest neighbours are lesbians.
May Sarton
The fur person
The story of the cats of a lesbian couple.
April Sinclair
Coffee will make you black
Sarah Schulman
After Delores
A story of murder and the loss of love in Manhatten.
The Sophie Horowitz story
Intrepid reporter Sophie sets out to locate two radical feminist leaders who have disappeared after robbing a bank.
Starhawk
Walking to Mercury
Maya, a writer, priestess and visionary struggles with healing her fractured family and her past.
Elizabeth Stark
Shy girl
The story of Alta and Shy, two women rediscovering each other and themselves.
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Michelle Tea
The passionate mistakes and intricate corruption of one girl in America
At 27, author Michelle Tea, was an ex-prostitute, ex Goth, ex-drummer, ex-straight girl, ex-lesbian separatist vegan, ex-Catholic schoolgirl, and ex-resident of Chelsea, Boston's working class slum. This fictional work explores the American sub-cultures that frame such an extraordinary life.
Valencia
Divulges the experiences of 'Michelle', a young dyke living in San Francisco's Mission District. This 2001 Lammy winner follows on from Tea's earlier reads, serving up a series of semi-autobiographical, “heart-churning, teeth-gnashing adventures in love, sex, friendship, and caffeine”.
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Sarah Waters
Affinity
Winner of the American Library Association’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Book Award for 2001.
Fingersmith
A gripping suspense novel awash with all manner of gloomy Dickensian leitmotifs: pickpockets, orphans, lunatic asylums, and of course, “stolen fortunes and girls made out to be mad“.
The night watch
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, this is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past.
Tipping the velvet
Lesbian London and at the dawn of the 20th century- the BBC production based on this novel is also available at the library on DVD (click on the above link for both formats).
Gale Wilhelm
Torchlight to Valhalla
Morgen, nursing her dying father, seems destined to live an oddly-formed, incomplete life until she meets Toni.
Barbara Wilson
Cows and horses
While getting over the break-up of her relationship, Bet goes on holiday … and meets Kelly.
Christa Winsloe
The child Manuela
Novel of the film “Schoolgirls in Uniform” and a landmark in fiction.
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges are not the only fruit
Autobiographical account of coming out, in a grim evangelical household in the industrial Midlands.
Monique Wittig
The lesbian body
Translated from the French: “celebrates the female principle with unprecedented intensity”.
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