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# Our Best Recommendations of Lesbian Novels

By [BestBooksNow (@bestbooksnow)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow)

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Published 19 April 2023 · Updated 19 April 2023

Category: books & literature

Lesbian literature has a rich history, with many talented authors exploring the complexities of lesbian relationships and the experiences of the LGBTQ+ community. If you are looking for compelling stories of love, heartbreak, and self-discovery, you've come to the right place. In this list, we have compiled our best recommendations of lesbian novels that capture the depth and diversity of the lesbian experience.

From classic works of lesbian fiction to contemporary novels that push the boundaries of genre and representation, these books are sure to captivate and inspire you. So, whether you are looking to explore your own identity or simply appreciate the beauty of lesbian love, these books are a must-read.

## Items

### 1. [Mrs. Dalloway](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/18/mrs-dalloway)

Item ID: `18`

- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/rtbwkxobenlzae3g0mv8.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1925
- Number of Pages: 194
- Average Rating: 3.79
- Summary: "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. In a novel in which she perfects the interior monologue and recapitulates the life cycle in the hours of the day, from first light to the dark of night, Woolf achieves an uncanny simulacrum of consciousness, bringing past, present, and future together, and recording, impression by impression, minute by minute, the feel of life itself.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Dalloway-Penguin-Classics-Deluxe/dp/0143136135/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=IDRHS4B8YCUZ&keywords=mrs+dalloway+by+virginia+woolf&qid=1680804456&s=books&sprefix=Mrs.+Dalloway%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C219&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Dalloway-Penguin-Classics-Deluxe/dp/0143136135/ref=sr_1_1?crid=IDRHS4B8YCUZ&keywords=mrs+dalloway+by+virginia+woolf&qid=1680804456&s=books&sprefix=Mrs.+Dalloway%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C219&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 2. [Orlando](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/2/orlando)

Item ID: `2`

- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/qixjjh96u43guwvlqcoc.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1928
- Number of Pages: 336
- Average Rating: 3.87
- Summary: Orlando is the extraordinary tale of a young man who finds wealth and favour in the court of Elizabeth I of England, but who never grows old. After experiencing love and adventure, a long sleep turns him into a woman, who in her turn faces discrimination and eventually love as the centuries unfold. This ground-breaking novel can be read in may ways: as an extended love-letter to Vita Sackville-West, as a meditation on the different treatment that men and women have experienced over the centuries and as an examination of the way literature itself has changed; 'Orlando' becomes the typical hero or heroine of every age.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Orlando-Virginia-Woolf/dp/1849026297/ref=tmm\_hrd\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680793051&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Orlando-Virginia-Woolf/dp/1849026297/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680793051&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 3. [The Well of Loneliness](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/19/the-well-of-loneliness)

Item ID: `19`

- Author: Radclyffe Hall
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/hbvhpye1dcfpjsvisnxt.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1928
- Number of Pages: 414
- Average Rating: 3.72
- Summary: The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall. 'As a man loved a woman, that was how I loved...It was good, good, good...' Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents - a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions. The Well of Loneliness was banned for obscenity when published in 1928. It became an international bestseller, and for decades was the single most famous lesbian novel. It has influenced how love between women is understood, for the twentieth century and beyond.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Well-Loneliness-Wordsworth-Classics/dp/184022455X/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=FZUGSQRV2WIG&keywords=The+Well+of+Loneliness&qid=1680804510&s=books&sprefix=the+well+of+loneliness%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C193&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Well-Loneliness-Wordsworth-Classics/dp/184022455X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=FZUGSQRV2WIG&keywords=The+Well+of+Loneliness&qid=1680804510&s=books&sprefix=the+well+of+loneliness%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C193&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 4. [The Price of Salt](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/0/the-price-of-salt)

Item ID: `0`

- Author: Patricia Highsmith
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/jjcrh9df2pmephbgnuau.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1952
- Number of Pages: 304
- Average Rating: 4.01
- Summary: Based on a true story plucked from Highsmith's own life, The Price of Salt (or Carol) tells the riveting drama of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose routine is forever shattered by a gorgeous epiphany―the appearance of Carol Aird, a customer who comes in to buy her daughter a Christmas toy. Therese begins to gravitate toward the alluring suburban housewife, who is trapped in a marriage as stultifying as Therese's job. They fall in love and set out across the United States, ensnared by society's confines and the imminent disapproval of others, yet propelled by their infatuation.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Price-Salt-Carol-Patricia-Highsmith/dp/0393325997/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=FT4ZRA7QO3CE&keywords=carol+claire+morgan&qid=1680792918&sprefix=Carol+clai%2Caps%2C254&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Price-Salt-Carol-Patricia-Highsmith/dp/0393325997/ref=sr_1_1?crid=FT4ZRA7QO3CE&keywords=carol+claire+morgan&qid=1680792918&sprefix=Carol+clai%2Caps%2C254&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 5. [Desert of the Heart](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/16/desert-of-the-heart)

Item ID: `16`

- Author: Jane Rule
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/jaofnlvnscq3chg2luy7.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1964
- Number of Pages: 216
- Average Rating: 3.91
- Summary: Evelyn Hall arrives in Reno wanting only to be left alone while she waits six weeks for a painful divorce from her husband. Once there she meets Ann Child - 15 years her junior, who is both a free spirit and a lesbian.Soon Ann refuses to let the controlled but vulnerable Evelyn ignore the powerful emotions that begin to unleash inside her...
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Desert-Heart-Jane-Rule/dp/159493035X/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680804348&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Desert-Heart-Jane-Rule/dp/159493035X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680804348&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 6. [Patience & Sarah](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/21/patience--sarah)

Item ID: `21`

- Author: Isabel Miller
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ou2ylilpvjiargner17y.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1969
- Number of Pages: 225
- Average Rating: 3.90
- Summary: Patience & Sarah is a historical romance whose drama was a touchstone for the burgeoning gay and women’s activism of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It celebrates the joys of an uninhibited love between two strong women with a confident defiance that remains relevant today.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Patience-Sarah-Little-Sisters-Classics/dp/1551521911/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680804838&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Patience-Sarah-Little-Sisters-Classics/dp/1551521911/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680804838&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 7. [Rubyfruit Jungle](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/30/rubyfruit-jungle)

Item ID: `30`

- Author: Rita Mae Brown
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/xxlhks3sq0lb48zk4jio.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1973
- Number of Pages: 246
- Average Rating: 3.92
- Summary: A landmark coming-of-age novel that launched the career of one of this country’s most distinctive voices, Rubyfruit Jungle remains a transformative work more than forty years after its original publication. In bawdy, moving prose, Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirt-poor Southern couple who boldly forges her own path in America. With her startling beauty and crackling wit, Molly finds that women are drawn to her wherever she goes—and she refuses to apologize for loving them back. This literary milestone continues to resonate with its message about being true to yourself and, against the odds, living happily ever after.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Rubyfruit-Jungle-Rita-Mae-Brown/dp/1101965126/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680806070&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Rubyfruit-Jungle-Rita-Mae-Brown/dp/1101965126/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680806070&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 8. [Annie on My Mind](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/34/annie-on-my-mind)

Item ID: `34`

- Author: Nancy Garden
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/yn0qmmxhrlcxtbsduxdi.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1982
- Number of Pages: 234
- Average Rating: 4.01
- Summary: From the moment Liza Winthrop meets Annie Kenyon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she knows there is something special between them. But Liza never knew falling in love could be so wonderful . . . or so confusing.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Annie-My-Mind-Nancy-Garden/dp/0374400113/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680806304&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Annie-My-Mind-Nancy-Garden/dp/0374400113/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680806304&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 9. [Curious Wine](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/20/curious-wine)

Item ID: `20`

- Author: Katherine V. Forrest
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/cwwltmmd1znxr8o2iirl.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1983
- Number of Pages: 200
- Average Rating: 3.89
- Summary: The intimacy of a cabin at Lake Tahoe provides the combustible circumstances that bring Diana Holland and Lane Christianson together in this passionate novel of first discovery.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Curious-Wine-Katherine-V-Forrest/dp/1594932557/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680804789&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Curious-Wine-Katherine-V-Forrest/dp/1594932557/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680804789&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 10. [Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/1/oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit)

Item ID: `1`

- Author: Jeanette Winterson
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/j3nytyjh1wneruf50sdr.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1985
- Number of Pages: 176
- Average Rating: 3.73
- Summary: Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial North of England and finds herself embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age, and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household dissolves. Jeanette’s insistence on listening to truths of her own heart and mind - and on reporting them with wit and passion - makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an eccentric, moving passage into adulthood.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Oranges-Are-Not-Only-Fruit-audiobook/dp/B07PGQKLFW/ref=tmm\_aud\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680792984&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Oranges-Are-Not-Only-Fruit-audiobook/dp/B07PGQKLFW/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680792984&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 11. [The Passion](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/10/the-passion)

Item ID: `10`

- Author: Jeanette Winterson
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/i70ti1ftordfpkcg9qh3.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1987
- Number of Pages: 160
- Average Rating: 4.10
- Summary: Jeanette Winterson’s novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature. The Passion is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms her special claim on the novel. Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin; and Villanelle, the red-haired, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose husband has gambled away her heart. In Venice’s compound of carnival, chance, and darkness, the pair meet their singular destiny.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Passion-Jeanette-Winterson/dp/0802135226/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=1F53YD8WQZ2A2&keywords=the+passion+jeanette&qid=1680804005&s=books&sprefix=The+Passion+jea%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C717&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Passion-Jeanette-Winterson/dp/0802135226/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1F53YD8WQZ2A2&keywords=the+passion+jeanette&qid=1680804005&s=books&sprefix=The+Passion+jea%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C717&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 12. [Touchwood](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/7/touchwood)

Item ID: `7`

- Author: Karin Kallmaker
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/qvkolivxpczdqpl6broz.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1990
- Number of Pages: 288
- Average Rating: 4.07
- Summary:
  > Fleeing the ruins of her life and relationship, Rayann Germaine rents a room from bookstore owner Louisa Thatcher. Decades older, Louisa offers shelter and work—and eventually passion that takes them both by surprise.
  > 
  > Falling in love, and into bed, turns out to be the easy part. Rayann’s mother disapproves of a liaison with a woman her own contemporary. Louisa’s son blames Rayann for revelations about his mother’s past and present that he does not want to accept. Friends universally agree that it can’t last.
  > 
  > These doubts would be easier to withstand if Rayann wasn’t already worried about sustaining the interest of a fascinating woman with a lifetime of experiences. Louisa isn’t sure she has any right to lay claim to the future of a much younger woman. Their only common ground seems to be the searing attraction that they simply can’t deny.Includes a new foreword by the author and a short story.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Touchwood-30th-Anniversary-Karin-Kallmaker-ebook/dp/B09HN8Z7V3/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=20R8H1BZ08KES&keywords=touchwood+karin+kallmaker&qid=1680793544&s=digital-text&sprefix=Touchwood+karin%2Cdigital-text%2C267&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Touchwood-30th-Anniversary-Karin-Kallmaker-ebook/dp/B09HN8Z7V3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20R8H1BZ08KES&keywords=touchwood+karin+kallmaker&qid=1680793544&s=digital-text&sprefix=Touchwood+karin%2Cdigital-text%2C267&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 13. [Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/17/kissing-the-witch-old-tales-in-new-skins)

Item ID: `17`

- Author: Emma Donoghue
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/zadcicgs6up6whswimbq.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1997
- Number of Pages: 228
- Average Rating: 3.89
- Summary: Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth, these age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a seductive new landscape, radiantly transformed.Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother; Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very different from the face she sees in the mirror; Snow White is awakened from slumber by the bittersweet fruit of an unnamed desire. Acclaimed writer Emma Donoghue spins new tales out of old in a magical web of thirteen interconnected stories about power and transformation and choosing one's own path in the world. In these fairy tales, women young and old tell their own stories of love and hate, honor and revenge, passion and deception. Using the intricate patterns and oral rhythms of traditional fairy tales, Emma Donoghue wraps age-old characters in a dazzling new skin.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Kissing-Witch-Old-Tales-Skins/dp/0064407721/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=2LY179YNVQ04Q&keywords=kissing+the+witch+old+tales+in+new+skins&qid=1680804405&s=books&sprefix=Kissing+the+Witch%3A+Old+Tales+in+New+Skins%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C213&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Kissing-Witch-Old-Tales-Skins/dp/0064407721/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2LY179YNVQ04Q&keywords=kissing+the+witch+old+tales+in+new+skins&qid=1680804405&s=books&sprefix=Kissing+the+Witch%3A+Old+Tales+in+New+Skins%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C213&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 14. [The Hours](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/3/the-hours)

Item ID: `3`

- Author: Michael Cunningham
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/zk17dn1s2mzjcdfabfpo.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1998
- Number of Pages: 230
- Average Rating: 3.95
- Summary: The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying from AIDS, who in modern-day New York is planning a party in his honor; and Laura Brown, in a 1949 Los Angeles suburb, who slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home. By the end of the novel, these three stories intertwine in remarkable ways, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Hours-Novel-Picador-Modern-Classics-ebook/dp/B003XF1OK4/ref=tmm\_kin\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680793114&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Hours-Novel-Picador-Modern-Classics-ebook/dp/B003XF1OK4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680793114&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 15. [Tipping the Velvet](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/5/tipping-the-velvet)

Item ID: `5`

- Author: Sarah Waters
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/rwnkgl4zjsngx5sbeltg.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1998
- Number of Pages: 472
- Average Rating: 4.04
- Summary: Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they begin a glittering career as music-hall stars in an all-singing and dancing double act. At the same time, behind closed doors, they admit their attraction to each other and their affair begins.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Tipping-Velvet-Novel-Sarah-Waters/dp/1573227889/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=2TOWDQLF3J3E8&keywords=tipping+the+velvet+a+novel&qid=1680793218&s=books&sprefix=Tipping+the+Velvet%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C191&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Tipping-Velvet-Novel-Sarah-Waters/dp/1573227889/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2TOWDQLF3J3E8&keywords=tipping+the+velvet+a+novel&qid=1680793218&s=books&sprefix=Tipping+the+Velvet%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C191&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 16. [The Blue Place (Aud Torvingen #1)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/8/the-blue-place-aud-torvingen-1)

Item ID: `8`

- Author: Nicola Griffith
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/iofcpm5oy0njsjhvkc9e.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1998
- Number of Pages: 308
- Average Rating: 3.90
- Summary: A police lieutenant with the elite "Red Dogs" until she retired at twenty-nine , Aud Torvigen is a rangy six-footer with eyes the color of cement and a tendency to hurt people who get in her way. Born in Norway into the failed marriage between a Scandinavian diplomat and an American businessman, she now makes Atlanta her home, luxuriating in the lush heat and brashness of the New South. She glides easily between the world of silken elegance and that of sleaze and sudden savagery, equally at home in both; functional, deadly, and temporarily quiescent, like a folded razor.On a humid April evening between storms, out walking just to stay sharp, she turns a corner and collides with a running woman, Catching the scent of clean, rain-soaked hair, Aud nods and silently tells the stranger \*Today, you are lucky\*, and moves on—when behind her house explodes, incinerating its sole occupant, a renowned art historian. When Aud turns back, the woman is gone.
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### 17. [Affinity](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/29/affinity)

Item ID: `29`

- Author: Sarah Waters
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/l67vt2gowfnjxmticma9.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1999
- Number of Pages: 352
- Average Rating: 3.74
- Summary: An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by on apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Selina was imprisoned after a séance she was conducting went horribly awry, leaving an elderly matron dead and a young woman deeply disturbed. Although initially skeptical of Selina’s gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina’s freedom, and her own.
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### 18. [Pages for You](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/22/pages-for-you)

Item ID: `22`

- Author: Sylvia Brownrigg
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/hgczzfecr8v8xdgwmcwv.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2001
- Number of Pages: 274
- Average Rating: 3.92
- Summary: Seventeen-year-old Flannery Jansen develops a lusty obsession for a female graduate student teacher and by chance ends up in one of her classes, but as the two become closer, Flannery learns more about Anne than she ever wanted to.
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### 19. [Empress of the World](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/23/empress-of-the-world)

Item ID: `23`

- Author: Sara Ryan
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/dun8lri837es8jnjjc3p.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2001
- Number of Pages: 290
- Average Rating: 3.74
- Summary: Nicola Lancaster is spending her summer at the Siegel Institute, a hothouse of smart, intense teenagers. She soon falls in with Katrina (Manic Computer Chick), Isaac (Nice-Guy-Despite-Himself), Kevin (Inarticulate Composer) . . . and Battle, a beautiful blond dancer. The two become friends--and then, startlingly, more than friends. What do you do when you think you're attracted to guys, and then you meet a girl who steals your heart?
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### 20. [Fingersmith](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/4/fingersmith)

Item ID: `4`

- Author: Sarah Waters
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/svdh5rhtunrk2sostfgr.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2002
- Number of Pages: 592
- Average Rating: 4.02
- Summary:
  > Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.
  > 
  > One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives—Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud’s vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of—passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum.
  > 
  > With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways...But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Fingersmith-Sarah-Waters/dp/1573229725/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680793179&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Fingersmith-Sarah-Waters/dp/1573229725/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680793179&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 21. [The Night Watch](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/25/the-night-watch)

Item ID: `25`

- Author: Sarah Waters
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/hh7uc22e3bcprtv0ab6v.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2006
- Number of Pages: 528
- Average Rating: 3.69
- Summary: Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of four Londoners—three women and a young man with a past—whose lives, and those of their friends and lovers, connect in tragedy, stunning surprise and exquisite turns, only to change irreversibly in the shadow of a grand historical event.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Night-Watch-Sarah-Waters/dp/1594482306/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=1MRB5I757Q0VP&keywords=the+night+watch+sarah+waters&qid=1680805365&s=books&sprefix=The+Night+Watch+sarah%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C220&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Night-Watch-Sarah-Waters/dp/1594482306/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1MRB5I757Q0VP&keywords=the+night+watch+sarah+waters&qid=1680805365&s=books&sprefix=The+Night+Watch+sarah%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C220&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 22. [Keeping You a Secret](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/32/keeping-you-a-secret)

Item ID: `32`

- Author: Julie Anne Peters
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/fxikv5exbyqeahgzjc03.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2007
- Number of Pages: 250
- Average Rating: 3.94
- Summary: With a steady boyfriend, the position of Student Council President, and a chance to go to an Ivy League college, high school life is just fine for Holland Jaeger. At least, it seems to be.But when Cece Goddard comes to school, everything changes. Cece and Holland have undeniable feelings for each other, but how will others react to their developing relationship?
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### 23. [Thirteen Hours](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/11/thirteen-hours)

Item ID: `11`

- Author: Meghan O'Brien
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/c7axmg8sz2rebealzu8e.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2008
- Number of Pages: 288
- Average Rating: 3.93
- Summary: Can you fall in love in thirteen hours?It's her birthday but lonely workaholic Dana Watts is at the office late, drafting a proposal. The very last interruption she expects comes in the form of the most beautiful breasts she has ever seen. These belong to an incredibly hot woman, who is standing in front of her, stripping to music.Laurel Stanley performs strip-o-grams to pay her way through school. She has never encountered a more ungrateful recipient than Dana. The uptight project manager makes it clear that she is furious to be distracted from her work by the gift a colleague sent and equally appalled by Laurel's occupation.After Dana is rude and insulting, and insists on escorting Laurel from the building, the two women take an elevator ride that changes everything. Stuck with each other for thirteen long hours after the elevator breaks down, they discover how wrong first impressions can be and how right two strangers can feel together.Can everything change in less than a day? Dana and Laurel set out to discover if their passionate elevator encounter can mean more in this fast-paced, erotic story of lust, loneliness, fantasy, and desire.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Thirteen-Hours-Meghan-OBrien/dp/1602820147/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680804072&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Thirteen-Hours-Meghan-OBrien/dp/1602820147/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680804072&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 24. [The Warrior's Path (When Women Were Warriors #1)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/28/the-warriors-path-when-women-were-warriors-1)

Item ID: `28`

- Author: Catherine M. Wilson
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/po6bbws4evx5xb1stmht.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2008
- Number of Pages: 264
- Average Rating: 4.03
- Summary: Tamras arrives in Merin’s house to begin her apprenticeship as a warrior, but her small stature causes many, including Tamras herself, to doubt that she will ever become a competent swordswoman. To make matters worse, the Lady Merin assigns her the position of companion, little more than a personal servant, to a woman who came to Merin’s house, seemingly out of nowhere, the previous winter, and this stranger wants nothing to do with Tamras.
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### 25. [Rage: A Love Story](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/9/rage-a-love-story)

Item ID: `9`

- Author: Julie Anne Peters
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/suemo8sciyabkxqr82jq.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2009
- Number of Pages: 296
- Average Rating: 3.64
- Summary: Johanna is steadfast, patient, reliable; the go-to girl, the one everyone can count on. But always being there for others can’t give Johanna everything she needs—it can’t give her Reeve Hartt.Reeve is fierce, beautiful, wounded, elusive; a flame that draws Johanna’s fluttering moth. Johanna is determined to get her, against all advice, and to help her, against all reason. But love isn’t always reasonable, right?In the precarious place where attraction and need collide, a teenager experiences the dark side of a first love, and struggles to find her way into a new light.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Rage-Story-Julie-Anne-Peters/dp/0375844112/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680793800&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Rage-Story-Julie-Anne-Peters/dp/0375844112/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680793800&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 26. [Ash](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/33/ash)

Item ID: `33`

- Author: Malinda Lo
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/dt4dapssuxpppbnwabzx.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2009
- Number of Pages: 264
- Average Rating: 3.63
- Summary: In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed by grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted.The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King's Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Their friendship, as delicate as a new bloom, reawakens Ash's capacity for love--and her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Ash-Malinda-Lo/dp/0316531316/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=1VE31WPVMJADQ&keywords=ash+malinda+lo&qid=1680806256&s=books&sprefix=Ash+%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C233&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Ash-Malinda-Lo/dp/0316531316/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1VE31WPVMJADQ&keywords=ash+malinda+lo&qid=1680806256&s=books&sprefix=Ash+%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C233&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 27. [Pitifully Ugly](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/6/pitifully-ugly)

Item ID: `6`

- Author: Robin Alexander
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/xrcikb7pcy043kwyt85l.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2010
- Number of Pages: 220
- Average Rating: 4.07
- Summary: Shannon Brycen believes she is the epitome of pitifully ugly.Kalen, Shannon's overly social sister, is determined to play match-maker and find a special someone for her sister.After a disastrous date with one of Kalen's recent selections, Shannon decides to take her love life back into her own hands by joining the local lesbian cyber match-maker.Mid thirties, still single, house broken but rabid. If you're looking for something different then I'm your girl. Write me if you dare...P.U.Maybe it wasn't the best idea to build her profile after consuming half a bottle of her favorite wine...or to use a picture of herself at the age of six - after she had cut her own hair-as her online profile photograph.Hiding behind the online persona of Pitifully Ugly, Shannon finds the courage to meet new women and face the disaster called dating. As her charming personality surfaces, Shannon's search for the perfect match may be closer than she realizes.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Pitifully-Ugly-Robin-Alexander-ebook/dp/B07X6FNP6P/ref=tmm\_kin\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680793257&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Pitifully-Ugly-Robin-Alexander-ebook/dp/B07X6FNP6P/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680793257&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 28. [Starting from Scratch](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/13/starting-from-scratch)

Item ID: `13`

- Author: Georgia Beers
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/qqhlqzd7ubl2ibc4nxkj.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2010
- Number of Pages: 294
- Average Rating: 4.08
- Summary: My name is Avery King and I’m probably a lot like you. I’m a 34-year-old single lesbian and my heart belongs to my rescued mutt, Steve. I work as a graphic designer and my life is quiet and comfortable. All in all, I’m a pretty regular girl and for the most part, I lead a pretty regular life.Things I look forward to: baking goodies and then sharing them; spending time with my grandmother; reading anything I can get my hands on; enjoying dinner with my friends; a quiet evening and a glass of wine; hiking new trails and exploring nature with Steve. Things I’d like to avoid at all costs: in-depth discussions with my ex; dealing with children; online dating; babysitting; falling for somebody’s mom; taking my perception of myself all the way back to square one.See that list of things I’d like to avoid? Yeah, guess who’s going to hit every single one of them this year… What happens when your life takes an unexpected turn? What happens when you need to protect the one you love from the one you want to love? What happens when you lose something you never knew you wanted?Lambda and Golden Crown Literary Award-winning author Georgia Beers brings to you her long-awaited seventh novel, Starting from Scratch, a story where learning, laughing, loving, and baked goods are just a few of life’s basic ingredients.Starting from Scratch...where life is what you make it.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Starting-Scratch-Georgia-Beers/dp/0979925460/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680804205&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Starting-Scratch-Georgia-Beers/dp/0979925460/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680804205&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 29. [Sing You Home](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/24/sing-you-home)

Item ID: `24`

- Author: Jodi Picoult
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ufrkcswmku6jbqaphbuo.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2011
- Number of Pages: 466
- Average Rating: 3.79
- Summary: Every life has a soundtrack. All you have to do is listen.Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxter’s life. There’s the melody that reminds her of the summer she spent rubbing baby oil on her stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. A dance beat that makes her think of using a fake ID to slip into a nightclub. A dirge that marked the years she spent trying to get pregnant.For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.In the aftermath of a series of personal tragedies, Zoe throws herself into her career as a music therapist. When an unexpected friendship slowly blossoms into love, she makes plans for a new life, but to her shock and inevitable rage, some people—even those she loves and trusts most—don’t want that to happen.
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### 30. [Huntress](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/26/huntress)

Item ID: `26`

- Author: Malinda Lo
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/snyyzmxvczjyjoafv8l9.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2011
- Number of Pages: 371
- Average Rating: 3.79
- Summary: To solve the crisis, the oracle stones are cast, and Kaede and Taisin, two seventeen-year-old girls, are picked to go on a dangerous and unheard-of journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen. Taisin is a sage, thrumming with magic, and Kaede is of the earth, without a speck of the otherworldly. And yet the two girls' destinies are drawn together during the mission. As members of their party succumb to unearthly attacks and fairy tricks, the two come to rely on each other and even begin to fall in love. But the Kingdom needs only one huntress to save it, and what it takes could tear Kaede and Taisin apart forever.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Huntress-Malinda-Lo/dp/0316039993/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680805416&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Huntress-Malinda-Lo/dp/0316039993/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680805416&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 31. [The Dark Wife](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/27/the-dark-wife)

Item ID: `27`

- Author: Sarah Diemer
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/mneizisdrogialpg0sic.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2011
- Number of Pages: 264
- Average Rating: 3.81
- Summary: Three thousand years ago, a god told a lie. Now, only a goddess can tell the truth. Persephone has everything a daughter of Zeus could want--except for freedom. She lives on the green earth with her mother, Demeter, growing up beneath the ever-watchful eyes of the gods and goddesses on Mount Olympus. But when Persephone meets the enigmatic Hades, she experiences something new: choice. Zeus calls Hades "lord" of the dead as a joke. In truth, Hades is the goddess of the underworld, and no friend of Zeus. She offers Persephone sanctuary in her land of the dead, so the young goddess may escape her Olympian destiny. But Persephone finds more than freedom in the underworld. She finds love, and herself. The Dark Wife is a YA novel, a lesbian revisionist retelling of the Persephone and Hades myth.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Wife-Sarah-Diemer/dp/1461179939/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680805470&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Wife-Sarah-Diemer/dp/1461179939/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680805470&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 32. [Jellicle Girl](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/14/jellicle-girl)

Item ID: `14`

- Author: Stevie Mikayne
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/jsbchuhyt5g4abrxrrpa.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2012
- Number of Pages: 234
- Average Rating: 3.85
- Summary:
  > One dark summer night, Beth and Jackie go out to the canoe dock.
  > 
  > Two years later, Beth is still carrying the weight of the secrets they shared, and the truth about what happened to Jackie.
  > 
  > At seventeen, she's living alone in her father's apartment, popping sedatives to squash the nightmares, and trudging to therapy with the indomitable Dr. Sullivan so that she can get into the bridge program that will let her start her life over. But the harder Beth tries to outrun her past--including her fraught family relationships--the more entrenched in memories she becomes.
  > 
  > As her life starts to spin out of control and Dr. Sullivan begins to succumb to her own demons, Beth is in danger of losing herself in the black waters of her own mind.
- Buy now: [https://www.amazon.com/Jellicle-Girl-Stevie-Mikayne/dp/1635556910/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680804253&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Jellicle-Girl-Stevie-Mikayne/dp/1635556910/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680804253&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false

### 33. [The Miseducation of Cameron Post](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/31/the-miseducation-of-cameron-post)

Item ID: `31`

- Author: Emily M. Danforth
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/lfw7u0slprpupxmjzall.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2012
- Number of Pages: 470
- Average Rating: 4.06
- Summary:
  > When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they’ll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl.
  > 
  > But that relief doesn’t last, and Cam is forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. She knows that from this point on, her life will forever be different. Survival in Miles City, Montana, means blending in and leaving well enough alone, and Cam becomes an expert at both.
  > 
  > Then Coley Talor moves to town. Beautiful, pickup-driving Coley is a perfect cowgirl with the perfect boyfriend to match. She and Cam forge an unexpected and intense friendship, one that seems to leave room for something more to emerge. But just as that starts to seem like a real possibility, Aunt Ruth takes drastic action to “fix” her niece, bringing Cam face-to-face with the cost of denying her true self—even if she’s not quite sure who that is.
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### 34. [The Paying Guests](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/12/the-paying-guests)

Item ID: `12`

- Author: Sarah Waters
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/mjp1imfo0sfopomgaqk6.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2014
- Number of Pages: 564
- Average Rating: 3.44
- Summary: It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa—a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants—life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.With the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the “clerk class,” the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways. Little do the Wrays know just how profoundly their new tenants will alter the course of Frances’s life—or, as passions mount and frustration gathers, how far-reaching, and how devastating, the disturbances will be.
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### 35. [Everything Leads to You](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84918/our-best-recommendations-of-lesbian-novels/15/everything-leads-to-you)

Item ID: `15`

- Author: Nina LaCour
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/wrsnw3ivsdlmj0tb7why.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2014
- Number of Pages: 307
- Average Rating: 3.84
- Summary: Just out of high school, Emi Price is a talented young set designer already beginning to thrive in the L.A. film scene. But her artistic eye has failed her in one key area: helping her to design a love life that’s more than make-believe. Then she finds a mysterious letter at an estate sale, and it sends her chasing down the loose ends of a movie icon’s hidden life. And along the way, she finds Ava, and at long last, Emi’s own hidden life begins to bloom.
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