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Best Lesbian Fiction (And Narrative Non-Fiction)

Description: Books featuring main characters who are lesbians, whether or not their sexuality is central to the plot
Based on tag: lesbian fiction
Members: 31 participating members
Aquila, csoki637, nancyewhite, Lexxi, ManWithAnAgenda, lquilter, SOShea, lahochstetler, Gaybian, belgrade18, sandstone78, martinjmm, pammab, souloftherose, ahef1963, thorold, aulsmith, ijustgetbored, kageeh, lilithcat, lorax, SqueakyChu, keristars, ablachly, rarm, Joe_Fraser, GWHill, norabelle414, rubberducky82882

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Rank Title Author Added

1

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel

7,606 members

353 reviews

4.2

14 Members: lorax, Aquila, lilithcat, SqueakyChu, lquilter, rarm, ijustgetbored, lahochstetler, aulsmith, nancyewhite, sandstone78, ManWithAnAgenda, Gaybian, SOShea

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Rubyfruit Jungle

by Rita Mae Brown

3,096 members

55 reviews

½ 3.7

14 Members: lilithcat, SqueakyChu, pammab, lquilter, kageeh, ijustgetbored, lahochstetler, csoki637, thorold, aulsmith, nancyewhite, belgrade18, martinjmm, Gaybian

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by Sarah Waters

7,577 members

278 reviews

4

10 Members: lilithcat, pammab, lquilter, ijustgetbored, lahochstetler, csoki637, norabelle414, nancyewhite, souloftherose, ahef1963

4

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

18,596 members

329 reviews

4.1

9 Members: lahochstetler, csoki637, nancyewhite, souloftherose, ahef1963, martinjmm, ManWithAnAgenda, Gaybian, SOShea

5

Tipping the Velvet

by Sarah Waters

4,888 members

143 reviews

4

8 Members: lorax, Aquila, pammab, lquilter, lahochstetler, csoki637, Gaybian, SOShea

6

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

by Jeanette Winterson

6,003 members

139 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: SqueakyChu, lquilter, ijustgetbored, csoki637, thorold, nancyewhite, SOShea

7

by Nicola Griffith

1,271 members

47 reviews

3.9

7 Members: Aquila, pammab, lquilter, rarm, csoki637, sandstone78, SOShea

8

The Well of Loneliness

by Radclyffe Hall

2,566 members

48 reviews

½ 3.4

7 Members: lquilter, kageeh, csoki637, nancyewhite, belgrade18, martinjmm, Joe_Fraser

9

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

8,513 members

179 reviews

4.1

7 Members: Aquila, lquilter, nancyewhite, ahef1963, martinjmm, ManWithAnAgenda, Gaybian

10

The Night Watch

by Sarah Waters

4,266 members

148 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: pammab, csoki637, nancyewhite, souloftherose, ahef1963, SOShea

11

Bastard Out of Carolina

by Dorothy Allison

5,009 members

116 reviews

4

5 Members: kageeh, lahochstetler, aulsmith, nancyewhite, Joe_Fraser

12

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

by Emma Donoghue

1,138 members

39 reviews

3.8

4 Members: lquilter, keristars, rubberducky82882, SOShea

13

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

1,718 members

21 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: lquilter, lahochstetler, thorold, martinjmm

14

by Sarah Waters

3,224 members

129 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: lahochstetler, nancyewhite, souloftherose, SOShea

15

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

by Jeanette Winterson

1,982 members

100 reviews

4.1

4 Members: lahochstetler, csoki637, nancyewhite, SOShea

16

Annie on My Mind

by Nancy Garden

1,992 members

74 reviews

4

4 Members: lquilter, csoki637, nancyewhite, SOShea

17

The Education of Harriet Hatfield

292 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: ablachly, nancyewhite, martinjmm

18

The Beebo Brinker Chronicles

127 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: lorax, Aquila, lquilter, nancyewhite

19

Patience and Sarah

by Isabel Miller

744 members

18 reviews

3.9

5 Members: lquilter, csoki637, nancyewhite, martinjmm, SOShea,lilithcat

20

by Kelley Eskridge

417 members

28 reviews

4

3 Members: pammab, sandstone78, SOShea

21

The Price of Salt

by Patricia Highsmith

2,705 members

96 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ablachly, csoki637, belgrade18

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by Melissa Scott

354 members

6 reviews

3.8

3 Members: lquilter, aulsmith, sandstone78

23

Dykes to Watch Out For

by Alison Bechdel

482 members

3 reviews

4

4 Members: Aquila, csoki637, Gaybian, SOShea

24

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

by Emily M. Danforth

1,402 members

73 reviews

4

3 Members: csoki637, Lexxi, Gaybian

25

by Nicola Griffith

1,161 members

45 reviews

3.9

3 Members: pammab, lquilter, sandstone78

26

Stone Butch Blues

by Leslie Feinberg

1,950 members

38 reviews

4.2

2 Members: nancyewhite, ManWithAnAgenda

27

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

2,477 members

67 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: nancyewhite, martinjmm, ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein

2,558 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: lquilter, nancyewhite, belgrade18

29

The Teahouse Fire

704 members

15 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: lahochstetler, belgrade18

30

And Playing the Role of Herself

122 members

6 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Aquila, Lexxi

31

Under the Udala Trees

by Chinelo Okparanta

579 members

30 reviews

3.8

3 Members: csoki637, Gaybian, SOShea

32

Trouble and Her Friends

by Melissa Scott

653 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: lquilter, sandstone78

33

by Emma Donoghue

463 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: lquilter, belgrade18

34

The Paying Guests

by Sarah Waters

3,048 members

193 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: csoki637, souloftherose

35

Mighty Good Road

by Melissa Scott

250 members

1 review

½ 3.3

2 Members: lquilter, sandstone78

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by Melissa Scott

189 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: lquilter, sandstone78

37

The Unspoken Name

by A K Larkwood

691 members

30 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Aquila, ManWithAnAgenda

38

by Rita Mae Brown

754 members

7 reviews

3.2

2 Members: lahochstetler, nancyewhite

39

by Lauren Myracle

427 members

20 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: csoki637, Gaybian

40

409 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: nancyewhite, Lexxi

41

The City in the Middle of the Night

by Charlie Jane Anders

1,062 members

37 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Aquila, SOShea

42

by Sarah Schulman

226 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: csoki637, nancyewhite

43

Gideon the Ninth

3,417 members

153 reviews

4.1

Member: Aquila

44

by Gregory Hill

5 members

2 reviews

4

Member: GWHill

45

by Laurie J. Marks

679 members

29 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Aquila, SOShea

46

The Priory of the Orange Tree

by Samantha Shannon

4,038 members

81 reviews

4

2 Members: Aquila, SOShea

47

266 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: nancyewhite, Lexxi

48

A Memory Called Empire

by Arkady Martine

2,259 members

104 reviews

4.1

Member: Aquila

49

The Sealed Letter

by Emma Donoghue

870 members

47 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: souloftherose

50

The Emergency Claus

by Robin Roseau

6 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: Lexxi

51

Tales of the City

by Armistead Maupin

4,790 members

97 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

by Emma Donoghue

430 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thorold

53

238 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Aquila

54

by J. M. Redmann

111 members

1 review

4

Member: Lexxi

55

Good Enough to Eat

by Lesléa Newman

75 members

½ 3.3

Member: belgrade18

56

by Virginia Woolf

19,427 members

310 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

The Pyramid Waltz

by Barbara Ann Wright

74 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: Lexxi

58

by Gertrude Stein

1,675 members

15 reviews

3.1

Member: belgrade18

59

Parties in Congress

by Colette Moody

39 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: Lexxi

60

A Song for a New Day

by Sarah Pinsker

345 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: Aquila

61

Water Mark (Micky Knight Mysteries)

by J. M. Redmann

48 members

½ 4.5

Member: Lexxi

62

The Extraordinaries

538 members

29 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

by Radclyffe Hall

247 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: belgrade18

64

by Jae

16 members

½ 4.3

Member: Lexxi

65

The Bone Shard Daughter

by Andrea Stewart

892 members

21 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

The Temple at Landfall (Celaeno)

by Jane Fletcher

104 members

2 reviews

4

Member: sandstone78

67

by Jae

48 members

1 review

4.2

Member: Lexxi

68

The Kate Delafield Series: Books 1-3

by Katherine V. Forrest

27 members

4

Member: martinjmm

69

This Is How You Lose the Time War

by Amal El-Mohtar

2,847 members

173 reviews

3.9

Member: Aquila

70

by Maria Edgeworth

554 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: belgrade18

71

Written in the Stars

by Alexandria Bellefleur

503 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

72

When We Were Bad

by Charlotte Mendelson

381 members

16 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: lahochstetler

73

The Exile And the Sorcerer

by Jane Fletcher

118 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: sandstone78

74

Name All the Animals: A Memoir

by Alison Smith

694 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: nancyewhite

75

Dare Truth or Promise

339 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Aquila

76

Claire of the Moon: One Woman's Journey into Her Sexual Identity : A Novel

141 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: Gaybian

77

by J. M. Redmann

34 members

1 review

½ 4.4

Member: Lexxi

78

The Story So Far

8 members

2 reviews

4.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

79

Cantoras: A novel

by Carolina De Robertis

219 members

9 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Aquila

80

by Paula Martinac

183 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: nancyewhite

81

The Intersection of Law and Desire

by J. M. Redmann

170 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: Lexxi

82

I Am Not Okay With This

by Charles Forsman

119 members

8 reviews

3.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

83

The Empress of Salt and Fortune

1,017 members

54 reviews

4.1

Member: Aquila

84

Fortune Favors the Dead

by Stephen Spotswood

280 members

17 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

Deaths of Jocasta

by J. M. Redmann

169 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: Lexxi

86

Nothing to See Here

by Kevin Wilson

1,779 members

116 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

Daughter of Mystery

by Heather Rose Jones

144 members

6 reviews

4.1

Member: Aquila

88

by Meghan O'Brien

71 members

1 review

4.2

Member: Lexxi

89

36 members

6 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

90

by Robin Roseau

22 members

1 review

3.8

Member: Lexxi

91

The Stars Are Legion

by Kameron Hurley

713 members

38 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Aquila

92

by Meghan O'Brien

65 members

2 reviews

4

Member: Lexxi

93

Relatively Norma

54 members

½ 4.3

Member: csoki637

94

The Psychology of Time Travel

by Kate Mascarenhas

659 members

45 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

95

Without Warning

by KG MacGregor

99 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: Lexxi

96

Rangers at Roadsend

by Jane Fletcher

82 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: Aquila

97

The Lost Language of Cranes

by David Leavitt

1,253 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

98

by Melissa Good

130 members

4 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: Aquila

99

Between Friends

by Gillian E. Hanscombe

105 members

4.8

Member: csoki637

100

by Robin Roseau

9 members

4

Member: Lexxi

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