non-fiction

The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall (1928)

Orlando: A Biography - Virginia Woolf (1928)

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein (1932)

The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions - Larry Mitchell (1977)

The Straight Mind: And Other Essays - Monique Wittig (1980)

Surpassing the Love of Men - Lillian Faderman (1981)

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza - Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1987)

Female Masculinity - J. Jack Halberstam (1989)

The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader - Joan Nestle (1992)

Vampires and Violets : Lesbians in the Cinema - Andrea Weiss (1993)

Andrea WeissThe Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture - Terry (1993)

Sister Outsider -Audre Lorde (1984)

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America - Lillian Faderman (1991)

Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About - Carla Trujillo (1991)

I Want a President - Zoe Leonard (1992)

Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg (1993)

Dagger: On Butch Women - Lily Burana (1994)

Virginia Woolf - Hermione Lee (1999)

Valencia - Michelle Tea (2000)

I'm the One That I Want - Margaret Cho (2001)

Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde - Alexis De Veaux (2004)

The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government - David K. Johnson (2004)

Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, and Art: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks - Diana Souhami (2004)

Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Birth of the Lesbian Rights Movement - Marcia M Gallo

The Complete Poems of Sappho (2009)

The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon - Jamie Harker (2018)

A Short History of Queer Women - Kirsty Loehr (2022)

Hijab Butch Blues - Lamya H (2023)

Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir - Sara Glass (2024)

fiction

Nightwood - Djuna Barnes (1936)

The Price of Salt -  Patricia Highsmith (as Clare Morgan) (1952)

The Beebo Brinker Chronicles - Ann Bannon (1962)

Desert of the Heart - Jane Rule (1964)

Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown (1973)

Loving Her - Ann Allen Shockley (1974)

The Color Purple - Alice Walker (1982)

Curious Wine - Katherine V. Forrest (1983)

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson (1985)

Dykes to Watch Out For - Alison Bechdel (1986)

The Gilda Stories: A Novel - Jewelle Gomez (1991)

Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson (1992)

Kissing the Witch - Emma Donoghue (1993)

Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald (1996)

Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith - Sarah Waters (1998)

Honor series - Radclyffe (2001)

Fresh Tracks - Georgia Beers (2006)

Nevada - Imogen Binnie (2013)

Juliet Takes a Breath - Gabby Rivera (2016)

You, Me, U.S. - Brigitte Bautista (2019)

authors

Audre Lorde

Adrienne Rich

Eileen Myles

Minnie Bruce Pratt

Judith Butler

contemporary lists

30 Best Lesbian Romance Novels

Fat Positive Queer Book List

What to Read When You’re Queer and Expecting

LGBTQ+ Picture Books

20 Must-Read Contemporary Sapphic Novels

Lesbian/Bi/Queer Fiction

Must Read Lesbian & Sapphic Novels