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Recommendations List

The Lesbrary has been around since 2010, so we’ve covered a lot of books here! It can be overwhelming. You can browse by genre, rating, and representation, but if you’re looking for a shorter list, here are a few of my personal favorites by genre. These are just my (Danika’s) picks, so be sure to browse the site for all the other Lesbrarians’ favorite books!

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Fiction:

  • Nevada by Imogen Binnie (review)
  • The Very Nice Box by Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman (review)
  • Milk Fed by Melissa Broder (review)
  • Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
  • My Education by Susan Choi (review)
  • Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi (review)
  • The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (review)
  • The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan (review)
  • Drag King Dreams by Leslie Feinberg (review)
  • Just Girls by Rachel Gold (review)
  • The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall (review)
  • One’s Company by Ashley Hutson (review)
  • Stray City by Chelsey Johnson (review)
  • Sister Snake by Amanda Lee Koe (review)
  • When Fox is a Thousand by Larissa Lai (review)
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  • Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey (review)
  • All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews (review)
  • Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie (review)
  • The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie (review)
  • Hero Worship by Rebekah Matthews (review)
  • A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett (review)
  • Lizzy & Annie by Casey Plett (review)
  • Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera (review)
  • (You) Set Me On Fire by Mariko Tamaki (review)
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker (review)
  • Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
  • Fresh by Margot Wood (review) (New Adult)

Short Story Collections:

  • Missed Her by Ivan Coyote (review)
  • Painting Their Portraits in Winter by Myriam Gurba (review)
  • The Collection edited by Tom Leger and Riley Macleod (review)
  • Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (review)
  • Sympathy for Wild Girls: Stories by Demree McGhee (review)
  • Tauhou by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall (review)
  • A Dream of a Woman: Stories by Casey Plett (review)
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Historical Fiction:

  • The Last Nude by Ellis Avery (review)
  • Miss Timmins’ School for Girls by Nayana Currimbhoy (review)
  • The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh by Molly Greeley (review)
  • Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin (review) (YA)
  • Prairie Ostrich by Tamai Kobayashi (review)
  • All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages edited by Saundra Mitchell (review) (YA)
  • Pulp by Robin Talley (review) [YA]
  • Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
  • The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
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Science Fiction:

  • Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (review)
  • Finna by Nino Cipri (review)
  • An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green (review)
  • Meanwhile, Elsewhere edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett (review)
  • The Little Homo Sapiens Scientist by S.L. Huang (review)
  • The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (review)
  • The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw (review)
  • Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi (review)
  • The Seep by Chana Porter (review)
  • The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling (review)
  • Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead (review)
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Fantasy:

  • Legends & Lattes (review) and Bookshops & Bonedust (review) by Travis Baldree
  • Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey (review)
  • The Unbroken (review) and The Faithless (review) by C. L. Clark
  • The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean (review)
  • Indigo Springs by A.M. Dellamonica (review)
  • Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue
  • Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History edited by Rose Fox and Daniel José Older (review)
  • The Second Mango by Shira Glassman (review)
  • “The Freedom of the Shifting Sea” by Jaymee Goh from New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color edited by Nisi Shawl (review)
  • Spear by Nicola Griffith (review)
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  • The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson (review)
  • Falling In Love With Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson (review)
  • Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson (review)
  • The Worldbreaker Saga by Kameron Hurley (review)
  • Bearly a Lady by Cassandra Khaw (review)
  • The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey (review)
  • Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks (review)
  • A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams by Dax Murray (review)
  • Everfair by Nisi Shawl (review)
  • The Dawnhounds (Against the Quiet #1) by Sascha Stronach (review)
  • The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
  • A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland (review)
  • Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne (review)
  • The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (review)
  • Buffalo is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel (review)
  • How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler (review)
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Horror/Zombies/Vampires:

  • Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (review)
  • Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth (review)
  • Fist of the Spider Woman edited by Amber Dawn (review)
  • Alice Isn’t Dead by Joseph Fink
  • A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson (review)
  • An Education in Malice by S. T. Gibson (review)
  • The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (review)
  • Gnarled Hollow by Charlotte Greene
  • A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand (review)
  • Eat Your Heart Out by Dayna Ingram (review)
  • The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (review)
  • We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer (review)
  • Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, edited by Carmen Maria Machado (review)
  • Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris (review)
  • Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt (review)
  • Model Home by Rivers Solomon (review) (Nonbinary main character)
  • Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle (review)
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Romance and Erotica:

  • Triple Sec by T.J. Alexander (review) [F/F/NB]
  • Rescued Heart by Georgia Beers (review)
  • Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake (review)
  • Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun (review)
  • My Lady’s Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris (review)
  • Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings (review)
  • A Pirate’s Heart by Catherine Friend (review)
  • Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman (review)
  • Season of Love by Helena Greer (review)
  • An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera (review) [historical]
  • The Pairing by Casey McQuiston (review) [Bi4Bi M/NB romance]
  • Cash Delgado Is Living the Dream by Tehlor Kay Mejia (review)
  • One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (review)
  • A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone (review) [Bi4Bi M/F romance]
  • Roller Girl by Vanessa North (review)
  • The Long Way Home by Rachel Spangler (review)
  • Macho Sluts by Patrick Califia (review)
  • Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica edited by Sinclair Sexsmith (review)

Comics/Graphic Novels:

  • Stone Fruit by Lee Lai (review)
  • Matchmaker by Cam Marshall (review)
  • Sugar Town by Hazel Newlevant (review)
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SFF Graphic Novels:

  • Heathen, Volume 1 by Natasha Alterici (review)
  • Motor Crush Vol 1 by Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart, and Babs Tarr (review)
  • That Full Moon Feeling by Ashley Robin Franklin (review)
  • Kim Reaper: Grim Beginnings and Vampire Island by Sarah Graley (review)
  • The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg (review)
  • America Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Gabby Rivera
  • Darlin’ It’s Betta Down Where It’s Wetta by Ro Salarian (review)

Horror Graphic Novels:

  • A Guest in the House by E.M. Carroll (review)
  • When I Arrived at the Castle by E.M. Carroll (review)
  • Eat the Rich by Sarah Gailey, Pius Bak, and Roman Titov (review)
  • Soft by Jane Mai (review)
  • Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky (review)
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Manga:

  • I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up by Naoko Kodama (review)
  • Girl Friends: The Complete Collection by Milk Morinaga (review of volume 1, review of volume 2)
  • My Cute Little Kitten Vol. 1 by Milk Morinaga (review)
  • My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata
  • Revolutionary Girl Utena manga by Chiho Saito (review)
  • Whisper Me a Love Song Vol. 1-4 by Eku Takeshima (review)
  • How Do We Relationship? Volumes 1 & 2 by Tamifull (review)
  • Citrus, Vols 1-3 by Saburo Uta (review)
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Young Adult Contemporary:

  • Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (review)
  • Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler (review)
  • Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli (review)
  • This is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow (review)
  • Starting From Here by Lisa Jenn Bigelow (review)
  • Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake (review)
  • How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake (review)
  • The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta (review) [agender main character/genderfluid love interest]
  • Fat Angie: Rebel Girl Revolution by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo (review)
  • Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert (review)
  • The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m. danforth (review)
  • Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan (review)
  • Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan (review) [Bisexual M/F, Bi LI)
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  • Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett (review) [Bisexual M/F]
  • The Difference Between You and Me by Madeleine George (review)
  • In the Silences by Rachel Gold (review)
  • Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin (review) [Historical]
  • Zara Hossain Is Here by Sabina Khan (review)
  • You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan (review)
  • Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (review) [Historical]
  • A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo (review)
  • Indestructible Object by Mary McCoy (review)
  • Out of Character by Jenna Miller (review)
  • Middletown by Sarah Moon (review)
  • Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy (review) [Bisexual M/F]
  • Radio Silence by Alice Oseman (review)
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  • The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus (review)
  • Late to the Party by Kelly Quindlen (review)
  • Noteworthy by Riley Redgate (review) [Bisexual M/F]
  • Empress of the World by Sara Ryan
  • The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe (review) [Thriller]
  • Under Threat by Robin Stevenson
  • As I Descended by Robin Talley (review)
  • Pulp by Robin Talley (review)
  • Follow Your Arrow by Jessica Verdi (review) [Bisexual M/F]
  • The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde (review)
  • Going Off Script by Jen Wilde (review)
  • Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde (review)
  • Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans (review) [Thriller]
  • The House You Pass On the Way by Jacqueline Woodson (review)
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YA Romance:

  • Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler (review)
  • Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler
  • Wish You Weren’t Here by Erin Baldwin (review)
  • Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins (review)
  • Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick (review)
  • Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar (review)
  • The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar (review)
  • Love Points to You by Alice Lin (review)
  • She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick (review)
  • I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston (review)
  • She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen (review)

YA Anthologies:

  • All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages edited by Saundra Mitchell (review)
  • Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales edited by Rebecca Podos and Ashley Herring Blake (review)
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Young Adult SFF

  • Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust (review)
  • The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow (review)
  • The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta (review)
  • Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy (review)
  • Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova (review)
  • Of Fire and Stars (review) and Of Ice and Shadows (review) by Audrey Coulthurst
  • Dreadnought by April Daniels (review) and Sovereign (Dreadnought #2) by April Daniels (review)
  • Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield (review)
  • Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel by A. W. Jantha
  • Adaptation (review), Inheritance (review), and Natural Selection (Adaptation 1.5) (review) by Malinda Lo
  • Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce (review)
  • Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft edited by Tess Sharpe (review)
  • Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley (review)

YA Horror

  • The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould (review)
  • What the Woods Took by Courtney Gould (review)
  • The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh (review)
  • The Narrow by Kate Alice Marshall (review)
  • I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea (review)

YA Graphic Novels:

  • I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner (review) [historical]
  • As the Crow Flies by Mel Gillman (review)
  • Stage Dreams by Mel Gillman (review)
  • Goldie Vance Vol. 1 written by Hope Larson and illustrated by Brittney Williams (review) (as well as Vol 2 and Vol 3)
  • Slip written by Marika McCoola and illustrated by Aatmaja Pandya (review)
  • Jem and the Holograms by Kelly Thompson and Sophia Campbell
  • Heavy Vinyl, Volume 1 by Carly Usdin and Nina Vakueva (review)

YA SFF and Horror Graphic Novels:

  • Cooking With Monsters by Jordan Alsaqa & Vivian Truong (review)
  • The Baker and the Bard by Fern Haught (review)
  • Specter Inspectors by Bowen McCurdy and, Kaitlyn Musto (review)
  • The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag (review)
  • Supermutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki (review)
  • Hollow by Shannon Watters, Branden Boyer-White, and Berenice Nelle (review) (Horror)
  • Princeless: Raven the Pirate Princess Vols. 1-3 by Jeremy Whitley (review)
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Middle Grade:

  • Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow (review)
  • Hazel’s Theory of Evolution by Lisa Jenn Bigelow (review) [Two moms]
  • Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender (review)
  • Star-Crossed by Barbara Dee (review)
  • P. S. I Miss You by Jen Petro-Roy (review)
  • Goldie Vance: The Hocus Pocus Hoax by Lilliam Rivera (review)
  • Kenzie Kickstarts a Team (The Derby Daredevils #1) by Kit Rosewater, illustrated by Sophie Escabasse (review)
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Middle Grade Graphic Novels:

  • The Pale Queen by Ethan M. Aldridge (review)
  • The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars by Michael Dante DiMartino
  • Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman (review)
  • The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor (review)
  • Aquicorn Cove by Katie O’Neill (review)
  • The Girl from the Sea by Molly Ostertag (review)
  • Space Battle Lunchtime Volumes 1 & 2 by Natalie Riess (Vol 1 & 2 review) (Vol 3 review)
  • Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, and Shannon Watters (review)
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Memoirs and Biographies:

  • Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison (review)
  • The Life and Times of Butch Dykes by Eloisa Aquino (review)
  • The Family Tooth by Ellis Avery (review)
  • When We Were Outlaws by Jeanne Cordova (review)
  • Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan Coyote (review) [Nonbinary]
  • Hunger by Roxane Gay (review)
  • The Black Period by Hafizah Augustus Geter (review)
  • Prairie Silence by Melanie Hoffert (review)
  • How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler (review) [Nonbinary]
  • Love is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar (review)
  • Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe (review)
  • Thunder Song: Essays by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe (review)
  • Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde (review)
  • In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (review)
  • First Spring Grass Fire by Rae Spoon (review) [Nonbinary]
  • Gender Failure by Rae Spoon & Ivan E. Coyote (review) [Nonbinary]
  • Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love & Revolution by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa (review)
  • Licking the Spoon: A Memoir of Food, Family and Identity by Candace Walsh (review)
  • Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch (review)
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Nonfiction:

  • Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker, illustrated by Julia Scheele (review)
  • Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest To Track Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America by Krista Burton (review)
  • Care of: Letters, Connections, and Cures by Ivan Coyote (review)
  • Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme edited by Ivan Coyote and Zena Sharman (review)
  • Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire by Lisa M. Diamond (review)
  • Inseparable: Desire Between Women In Literature by Emma Donoghue (review)
  • Queers Dig Time Lords edited by Sigrid Ellis and Michael Damian Thomas (review)
  • Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer
  • The ABCs of LGBT+ by Ash Hardell (review)
  • Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai (review)
  • Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (review)
  • Kicked Out edited by Sassafras Lowrey (review)
  • Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller (review)
  • The Whole Lesbian Sex Book by Felice Newman (review)
  • The Women’s House of Detention by Hugh Ryan (review)
  • Dear John, I Love Jane edited by Candace Walsh and Laura Andre (review)
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Poetry:

  • Sisterhood by Julie R. Enszer (review)
  • Bodymap by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (review)
  • When I Was Straight by Julie Marie Wade (review)
  • If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho edited by Anne Carson
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Nonfiction Comics & Graphic Memoirs:

  • Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (review)
  • I’m a Wild Seed: My Graphic Memoir on Queerness and Decolonizing the World by Sharon Lee De La Cruz (review)
  • Be Gay, Do Comics!: Queer History, Memoir, and Satire from the Nib (review)
  • Kimiko Does Cancer: A Graphic Memoir by Kimiko Tobimatsu, illustrated by Keet Geniza (review)
  • War of Streets and Houses by Sophie Yanow (review)

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