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!
created by sunniico
last updated September, 2026
We Walk Alone
Ann Aldrich
Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film
Andrea Weiss
Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures
Bonnie Zimmerman
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History
Lillian Faderman
Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence
Nancy Manahan
Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader
Joan Nestle
The Femme Mystique
Lesléa Newman
Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation
Karla Jay
Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women (Intersections, 15)
Leila J. Rupp
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy
Judith C. Brown
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Anne Lister
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Audre Lorde
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ohhh great idea for a list!!
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