Recs if you like Disoriental...

in progress - taking suggestions

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

Don't shoot the messenger.

Autumn Hill is a Prairieland Defendant, sentenced to 50 years in prison for protesting outside of an ICE detention facility, in a move intended to quell all political dissent. To support her, she says “send me more messy gay fiction” especially by queer authors of color!

Books should be paperbacks, purchased new and sent directly from Amazon, and addressed to:

Johnson County Jail, TX Cameron Arnold, 202502023 P.O. Box 247 Phoenix, MD 21131

Suggestions very welcome! 🫶🏽 More info in comments!

Texts that teachers at Texas Tech have been warned not to teach

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

The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 'aims to address the gender imbalance in translated literature' and is open to works of fiction, poetry, literary non-fiction, and fiction for children or young adults. Only works written by a woman (original authors, not the translators) are eligible. All works longlisted since the prize began in 2017 are collected on this list.

A collection of acclaimed classic and contemporary Francophone literature. I chose to classify as Francophone rather than French in order to include authors who wrote in French but were/are not of French nationality, especially authors from colonised countries. Non-exhaustive as I'm not an expert I am keeping this list to one book per author but suggestions very welcome! :)

Mix of genres by queer authors from nations in Asia set in the nation. Not every nation is represented yet—I'm still researching them! Keeping it at maximum 3 books per nation, but please leave recommendations if you have them!

China: In the Face of Death We Are Equal; Beijing Comrades India: How to Date a Fanatic Indonesia: Not a Virgin Iran: Medusa of the Roses; Disoriental Japan: The Night of Baba Yaga Lebanon: The True True Story of Raja the Gullible Malaysia: Black Water Sister Pakistan: Other Names for Love South Korea: Violets; Love in the Big City Sri Lanka: Swimming in the Monsoon Sea; The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Syria: The Foghorn Echoes; The Last Syrian Taiwan: Notes of a Crocodile; The Membranes

all longlisted books from 2018-2026

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

Elena Ferrante, the bestselling pseudonymous Italian author behind My Brilliant Friend, has named her favourite 40 books by female authors around the world.

Queer books from around the world.

Persian culture and history, home and abroad

Stories by women from across the world, brought to us through translation.

LGBTQIA literature translated into English from around the world. Leaning on the literary side for this list. Please share more recs!

Books with main characters from the LGBT community from all over the world.

A list of books in translation that have been picked for Skunk Cabbage Books' Airplane Mode subscription! (I am not affiliated with Skunk Cabbage, I just like how they've curated this subscription so far!)