Autobiography/Biography

My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 1 by Nagata Kabi

This sequel to the viral sensation My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness was also named one of Amazon s best graphic novels for 2018! Struggling with the idea of living alone and adjusting to the effects of her previous book s success, this follow-up to the award-winning autobiographical comic continues the author s quest for self-acceptance and love.

The book uses a minimalist, raw artistic style to depict intimate personal reflections, particularly focusing on queer and non-normative experiences.

Sita by Kate Millett

Records the moment-by-moment pains and respites of a fading love affair between the author and an older, several-times-married woman whose dramatically varied life and large-gestured, temperamental approach to her lover and her several grown children cannot be contained

Sita by Kate Millett

Kate Millett’s Sita is a raw, autobiographical account of her intense, obsessive lesbian love affair with an older, thrice-married woman named Sita, chronicling its passionate beginnings, the jealousy and chaos (Sita’s children, male lovers), and its painful disintegration, offering a candid look at love’s exhilaration, despair, and Millett’s own struggles with self-doubt and potential mental health crises as the relationship ends, leading to profound analysis of power dynamics within love.

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