This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A landmark 1964 lesbian novel that treats two women’s love as something to think through rather than punish, intelligent and unexpectedly modern, but held back by a cerebral, talky style … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A Pulitzer-winning novel of survival in which the love between Celie and Shug Avery is the turning point of a whole life, let down only by a second half that loses some readers in … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A tender, plain-spoken 1816 love story that gave lesbian fiction one of its first happy endings, held back by a sagging final third and a few elements that have aged badly. Best for: Readers … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: The 1957 lesbian pulp novel that taught a generation of women they were not alone, still emotionally true on the page, let down by plain, head-hopping prose and a love story that hands the … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: The most important lesbian novel of the twentieth century and a genuinely moving portrait of a woman who cannot fit the world she was born into, held back by a … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A tender, meticulously drawn true story of two women who built a 44-year life together in early Vermont, held back only by a slow first act and a crowded cast that is hard to … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A handsomely researched sapphic Dracula prequel with thick gothic atmosphere and real ambition, held back by a glacial first half, a structure that loses readers, and a love story that … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A funny, folklore-soaked quest through Iron Age Britain with a goddess of death who is terrible at being human, undercut by a thin second lead and an ending that romance … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: An atmospheric, folklore-soaked gothic mystery with a well-loved central partnership and a scene-stealing supporting cast, held back by a slow, crowded middle and a sapphic romance that stays quieter than … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A lush, fiercely voiced reclamation of Egypt’s last pharaoh with genuine emotional weight and a superb audiobook, undercut by a narrator who foreshadows everything and a queer thread far quieter … Read more