This is a List of lesbian-themed fiction. It includes books from the 18th century through the 21st century. It also includes lists of works by genre, a list of characters that make recurring appearances in fiction series, and a list of lesbian and feminist publishing houses.
Nana, Émile Zola (1880), – an extended description of Chez Laure, a Parisian restaurant that caters to a lesbian clientele;[3] the relationship of Nana and the unfaithful Satin, "with her blue eyes and schoolgirlish look", "bitten and beaten and torn this way and that by the two women".[4]
Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife, Adolphe Belot (1891)[5]
鳳雙飛 (Feng shuangfei) (A Pair of Male Phoenixes Flying Together), Cheng Huiying (程蕙英) (1899)[6]
The Captive (play), Edouard Bourdet (1926) – tragedy of a young woman who falls into a twisted relationship with another woman
The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall (1928) – subject of an obscenity trial that banned the book in the United Kingdom until 1949,[11] though "there are no descriptions of sex in it, no rude words, and the lesbian lovers do not live happily ever after"[12]
Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz has a lesbian character having an affair with her father's wife. The wife eventually marries the main character, but there is no question of the lesbian feeling any sentiments towards a man.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein (1933) – one of Stein's more accessible works. Others, whose lesbian content may not be apparent to the uninformed reader, include As a Wife Has a Cow: A Love Story, Lifting Belly, and Miss Furr and Miss Skeene.
Le Rempart des Béguines, Françoise Mallet-Joris (1952) – Helene, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, is seduced by her father's mistress, Tamara
The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith (under the pseudonym "Claire Morgan" before 1990) (1952) – considered the first lesbian novel with a 'happy ending'; basis for the 2015 film Carol.
Chocolates for Breakfast, Pamela Moore (1956) – portrays the bond between the protagonist Courtney Farrell and her boarding school teacher Miss Rosen, and the backlash against them from other teachers and students[19]
Fleur de Roller, an undercover security agent who falls for her subject in The Woman Who Pretended To Love Men (Those Strange Women #2) by Anna Ferrara
Kristin Ashe, a lesbian private investigator in mysteries by Jennifer L. Jordan
Kellen Stewart, a therapist and a lesbian in Great Britain by Manda Scott
Kylie Kendall, the lesbian manager of a pub in tiny Wollegudgerie, Australia who inherits 51% of her father's private detective agency in Los Angeles, California, in mysteries by Claire McNab
Lane Thompson, a charming lesbian patient at the Wonderdrug Psychiatric Center in The Woman Who Made Me Feel Strange (Those Strange Women #1) by Anna Ferrara
Maggie Garrett, a young, lesbian private investigator in San Francisco in mysteries by Jean Taylor
Maris Middleton, a lesbian chemist with a specialization in forensics in mysteries by Kaye Davis
Meg Lacey, a lesbian private investigator based in Canada in mysteries by Elizabeth Bowers
Rainey Blue Bell, an FBI agent on medical leave and a bail bonds business owner; meets her first lesbian lover in Rainey Days, the first novel in the Rainey Bell mystery series by R.E. Bradshaw
Monette O'Reilley, a towering lesbian, the star player of the Leaping Lesbians of the Park Slope soccer team, and a graphic artist in New York City in mysteries by David Stukas
Nea Fox, a lesbian private investigator in London, England in mysteries by Amelia Ellis
Nickel (Nicole) Smith, a lesbian small-town newspaper editor in Runnymeade by Rita Mae Brown
Pam Nilsen, lesbian printing company owner in Seattle, Washington, by Barbara Wilson
Saz Martin, a lesbian private investigator in London by Stella Duffy
All True Lovers, Cytherea's Breath, Amantha – Sarah Aldridge
Legacy of Love, Love in the Balance, Dawn of the Dance, Never Ending, Mirrors, Under the Witness Tree, Dance in the Key of Love – Marianne K. Martin
Mulligan, House on Sandstone, Just this Once, Secrets So Deep, Out of Love – KG MacGregor[27]
Sunset Island, Awaiting My Assignment, The Interim, Anything Your Heart Desires – AJ Adaire[28]
Beyond Midnight, Beautiful Strangers (Hyacinth Dickinson Series) – Ellen Dean[29]
Honor Series, Justice Series, Provincetown Series – Radclyffe
All the Wrong Places, Car Pool, Embrace in Motion, Finders Keepers, In Every Port, Just LIke That, The Kiss that Counted, One Degree of Separation, Painted Moon, Sugar, Unforgettable, Making Up For Lost Time, Substitute for Love, Touchwood, Wild Things, Watermark (the last the sequel to Touchwood) – Karin Kallmaker
Course of Action, Coffee Sonata, Sheridan's Fate, September canvass – Gun Brooke[30]
First Instinct, Forever Found, Rising Storm, Hotel Liaison – J. Lee Meyer[32]
More Than Paradise, the Moon Island Series: Passion Bay, Saving Grace, The Sacred Shore, A Guarded Heart, and the Dark Vista series: Dark Dreamer, Dark Valentine – Jennifer Fulton
I Found My Heart In San Francisco Series, Arbor Vitae – SX Meagher[33]
Sweet Bitter Love – Rita Schiano
Sierra City, Gulf Breeze, Hunter's Way, Behind the Pine Curtain, Coyote Sky, Dawn of Change, The Rainbow Cedar, One Summer Night – Gerri Hill[34]
The Light Fantastic – L A Tucker
Never Say Never, Class Reunion – Linda Hill
None So Blind, Prairie Fire, Tumbleweed Fever – LJ Maas
Galveston 1900: Swept Away, The Bluest Eyes in Texas, and Borderline – Linda Crist
The Price of Fame, The Cost of Commitment, The Value of Valor – Lynn Ames[35]
Double Shot, Mile High Club, Switching Teams, Girlfriends With Benefits, Sugar in the Morning, Velvet Canyon, Care by Kera, Broken Wing, Commando Jane – Ella Wrylee
Heart of the Hurricane – May Woodworth 1920's female bisexual couple Eliza and Joanna survive the August gales of Nova Scotia and find love
Katherine V. Forrest's Daughters of a Coral Dawn, Daughters of an Amber Noon, Daughters of an Emerald Dusk, and Dreams and Swords, an anthology with the novella O Captain, My Captain
Karin Kallmaker, Barbara Johnson, Julia Watts and Therese Szymanski's New Exploits books, including Once Upon a Dyke, Bell, Book & Dyke, Stake Through the Heart, and Tall in the Saddle
Diana River's Hadra series
Laurie J. Marks's Dancing Jack, Elemental series (Fire Logic, Earth Logic, Water Logic)
Meghan O'Brien's The Three and Wild
Pam Keesey's Daughters of Darkness and Dark Angels
Gun Brooke's Supreme Constellations series
Benjamin Appleby-Dean's Lamplight
Moondancer Drake's Ancestral Magic
Justine Saracen's The 100th Generation and Vulture's Kiss''
Libba Bray's characters Felicity Worthington and Pippa Cross in her Gemma Doyle trilogy (A Great and Terrible Beauty,Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing) are at first thought to be very close friends, almost sisters, until it is revealed they are harboring a secret love for one another
Catherine M. Wilson's When Women Were Warriors series: Book 1: The Warrior's Path, 2: A Journey of the Heart, and 3: A Hero's Tale
Fanfiction writers have produced many works in which female characters from fictional sources (such as television shows, movies, video games, anime, manga or comic books) are paired in romantic, spiritual, or sexual relationships. The genre is known by a variety of terms, including femslash, saffic, yuri and f/f slash. Lesbian content in fanfiction dates at least to 1977, but has become more popular during the 1990s and 2000s.
^Walker, Lisa (2003). Afterword (1st Feminist Press ed.). New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York. pp. 179–206. ISBN1-55861-462-1. OCLC52478429.
Las Tortilleras: Tortilleras: Hispanic and U.S. Latina Lesbian Expression, edited by Inmaculada Perpetusa-Seva and Lourdes Torres, Temple University Press 2003
These Girls Are Not Sweet, edited by Marjorie Agosin, White Pine Press 2000
