Edge of Twilight by Paula Christian
Paula Christian | Edge of Twilight | ‘One of the most candid and challenging novels ever written about today’s women who dare to live in that outcast world of ‘twilight’ love’
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Great
The Wayward Ones by Sara Harris
Sara Harris | The Wayward Ones | One of the few really good treatments of lesbian attachments in a girl’s reform school. Bessie, a wayward girl, is sent to a “good” reform school; at
Odd Girl Out by Ann Bannon
Ann Bannon | Odd Girl Out | In the 1950s, Ann Bannon broke through the shame and isolation typically portrayed in lesbian pulps, offering instead women characters who embraced th
Welcome Home by Glenda Poulter
Glenda Poulter | Welcome Home | Shelby Livingston left home thirty years ago, vowing never to permanently return. But she’s tired of her itinerant lifestyle as a photojournalist and
Awfully Devoted Women by Cameron Duder
Cameron Duder | Awfully Devoted Women | The lives of lesbians before 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have turned the spotlight on upper-middle-class ‘romantic friends’ and on work
The Price of Salt by Claire Morgan
Claire Morgan | The Price of Salt | The Price of Salt has grown in popularity and in importance, and is now recognized as an American masterwork. Highsmith has given us the enthralling
Olivia by Olivia
Olivia | Olivia |
Considered one of the most subtle and beautifully written lesbian novels of the century, this 1949 classic returns to print in a Cleis Press edit
Loveliest of Friends! by G. Sheila Donisthorpe
G. Sheila Donisthorpe | Loveliest of Friends! | From the back cover: ‘The World Condemned Their Love. When this book first appeared in England, it created a sensation and was favorably compared to
Lesbian / Woman by Del Martin; Phyllis Lyon
Del Martin; Phyllis Lyon | Lesbian / Woman | Lesbian/Woman is a work by the feminist and gay rights activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, in which the authors discuss what it means to be a lesbi
Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller
Isabel Miller | Patience & Sarah |
Winner of the 1971 American Library Assoc.’s first Gay Book Award, later called Stonewall Book Award
Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel M