Favored Strangers by Linda Wagner-Martin
A comprehensive biography of Gertrude Stein exploring her Jewish identity and lesbian relationships.
Autobiography/Biography
Nancy Mitford by Harold Acton (All Editions)
Nancy Mitford: A Memoir by Harold Acton is a portrait of the novelist and wit drawn by her lifelong friend. Nancy Mitford was the eldest and most famous of the six Mitford sisters — author of Love in a Cold Climate and The Pursuit of Love, and a journalist whose acid observations on English upper-class … Read more
For Sylvia by Valentine Ackland (All Editions)
For Sylvia: An Honest Account by Valentine Ackland is an autobiographical essay written for her long-time companion, the novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner. Ackland traces her desperately unhappy childhood, her emotionally turbulent adolescence, her lesbian relationships, a disastrous marriage, her return to the Catholic church, and her long battle with alcoholism. Above all it is the … Read more
Sappho Was a Right-On Woman by Sidney Abbott & Barbara Love (All Editions)
Sappho Was a Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism by Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love is a two-part study of lesbianism written from the inside. The first part examines how lesbians navigate a society that disapproves of their existence — the techniques of passing, the costs of concealment, and the pressures of living at … Read more
Warrior Poet by Alexis De Veaux
Assessing the cultural legacy of a woman who personified the civil rights struggles of the twentieth century, De Veaux pays homage to one of the most courageous, singular voices of American letters.
Exile And Pride by Eli Clare
A groundbreaking intersectional memoir exploring disability, queerness, class, environmental destruction, and gender identity through the lens of a white disabled genderqueer writer’s personal experiences and political activism.
The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg
A bestselling food writer’s candid memoir about discovering her attraction to women at age 36, navigating the dissolution of her marriage, coming out to family and friends, and redefining her identity and understanding of family.
Harley Loco by Rayya Elias
A raw punk rock memoir chronicling Syrian-American Rayya Elias’s journey from her childhood in Aleppo through Detroit to 1980s Lower East Side New York, where she pursued music and hairstyling while exploring her sexuality with lovers of both sexes, battling heroin addiction, experiencing homelessness and incarceration, and ultimately finding redemption and sobriety.
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
A New Yorker staff writer chronicles her unconventional life as a lesbian journalist who traveled the world, married a woman, became pregnant at 37, and experienced devastating losses that forced her to confront what she could and couldn’t control.
Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles Of Sex-Positive Culture by Carol Queen
A candid essay collection by bisexual sexologist Carol Queen exploring sex-positive culture, sexual identity, sex work, and erotic experiences, combining memoir with cultural analysis and advocacy.