Recs if you like On a Woman's Madness...

in progress

Basically, a huge list of every book I ever heard features sapphic characters.

I have not read all of these, so I cannot be sure of the amount of the time on page of the sapphic characters or of the quality of the books.

Some of these I do not plan to read at all, since they are not my style. If you feel like a book doesn't belong here, let me know.

For my favs / read, check out my other lists & shelves.

Open to suggestions for more titles.

Don't shoot the messenger.

my personal wlw library so… a lot of classic lesbian lit, basically

A selection of books by queer authors and/or containing queer themes not originally written in English but since translated. Suggestions very welcome!

winners, shortlist and longlist (this will be a very long list indeed). complete from 2016-2026

Caribbean and diasporic novels, plays, poetry, and non-fiction books.

ladies love to write all around the world!

Lives of outsiders rendered in sharp prose style. Descendants of Shelley, the Brontes, and Woolf; forebears to 'Weird Girl Lit'. Title refers to the authors, the subjects of the work may not always be women. Focused on novels published between WW2 and 9/11, with a few memoirs and short story collections.

This is not the Booker Prize for Fiction but the honor focused on translated work. This longlist has 13 books translated from 10 languages.

all longlisted books from 2018-2026

every book published in the UK by tilted axis press, a publishing house focusing on contemporary asian literature. collecting all their publications for my own reference

A list with ALL longlisted titles from the National Book Award for Translated Literature (USA) and the International Booker prize (UK) .

Updated once new nominees are announced.

Currently updated with: • NBA 2018-2025 • International Booker 2016-2026

A mix of genres by queer authors from South America, set in (or partially in) the nation. Preference given to books in translation. Not every nation is represented yet—I'm still researching them! Maximum 3 books per nation!

Argentina: Brickmakers; Kiss of the Spider Woman; Bad Girls Brazil: The Words that Remain; We All Loved Cowboys Chile: My Tender Matador; The Remainder Colombia: Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You; Like This Afternoon Forever Ecuador: Jawbone Peru: The Glory of Gold; Nine Moons Suriname: On a Woman's Madness Uruguay: Cantoras

Please leave suggestions if you have them :)

longlists of every year from 2016 onwards

the best of the low lands. learn about life in slavery under dutch colony rule or the big flood in 1953, when the water bursts through the dikes, or get entangled in the eccentricities of connie palmens seven men. personal recommendation is the song of stork and dromedary by anjet daanje, a gothic and philosophical novel about a character based on daanjes favorite writer: emily brönte.

all translated from dutch, except for ‘the safekeep’ (original written in english by yael van der wouden)