Disappearing Moon Cafe by Sky Lee
A classic Canadian multi-generational family epic unpacking cultural trauma and the journey toward lesbian self-realization.
Historical Fiction
The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue
Gripping Victorian courtroom drama exploring a feminist’s repressed queer devotion.
Disappearing Moon Cafe by Sky Lee
A classic Canadian multi-generational family epic unpacking cultural trauma and the journey toward lesbian self-realization.
Dark Matters by Susan Hawthorne
A poetic and political lesbian novel moving between a woman’s imprisonment and torture and her niece’s reconstruction of the hidden history that led there.
Islands Of Mercy by Rose Tremain
A Victorian nurse chooses between a secret female lover and a respectable marriage across two continents.
A Thin Bright Line by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
A queer scientist navigates Cold War espionage and climate research while risking everything for forbidden love.
The Bricks That Built The Houses by Kate Tempest
A gritty debut novel set in South London following lesbian drug dealer Harry and bisexual dancer Becky as their lives intersect through Harry’s brother Pete, exploring their complex romantic relationship against the backdrop of urban struggle, family histories, and the contemporary challenges facing millennials.
Hermione by Hilda Doolittle; H.
A modernist poet’s semi-autobiographical novel about a young woman in her twenties discovering her identity, sexuality, and artistic voice through an intense friendship with another woman while engaged to Ezra Pound.
The Bricks That Built The Houses by Kate Tempest
A gritty debut novel set in South London following lesbian drug dealer Harry and bisexual dancer Becky as their lives intersect through Harry’s brother Pete, exploring their complex romantic relationship against the backdrop of urban struggle, family histories, and the contemporary challenges facing millennials.
Black Wave by Michelle Tea
A metaliterary hybrid memoir-novel following lesbian writer Michelle through 1990s San Francisco’s queer scene and her drug-fueled relationships, as the world literally begins ending around her move to Los Angeles, blending addiction recovery with apocalyptic fiction.