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lesbian classics

Rubyfruit Jungle

The Well of Loneliness

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Orlando

Rubyfruit Jungle

The Well of Loneliness

Lesbian Herstory

Make your way through the lesbian herstorical canon.

This list features standalone non-fiction texts only.

Please request these books at your local library.

Most out-of-print texts can be requested through your library's ILL system or read on archive.org. 💝

Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community

The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader

Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion

Lesbian Nonfiction

I have yet to see a list that covered lesbian nonfiction so I decided to make one! Suggestions welcome! I may not have read all on this list yet!

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America

on queer history

Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters

Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language

Outrageous!: The Story of Section 28 and Britain's Battle for LGBT Education

Camp!: The Story of the Attitude that Conquered the World

Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters

Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language

Voices from the Past

First person accounts throughout history, focusing on marginalized groups.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

The Diary of a Young Girl

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative (African American)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

The Diary of a Young Girl

let’s go lesbians!!

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my personalised sapphic master list!!

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Fingersmith

The Safekeep

Sunburn

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Fingersmith

Sapphic reads

These are all the ones I've read or want to read :)

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Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

Faebound (Faebound, #1)

Make My Wish Come True

Make the Season Bright

Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

Faebound (Faebound, #1)

lesbian/sapphic history

by stateofalicegrace

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Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War

A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a Group of Women Set Out to Change the World

No Modernism Without Lesbians

Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion

Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War

A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a Group of Women Set Out to Change the World

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