Queer Fiction for Smart Girls
Discover the best queer fiction for smart girls! Explore our curated list of empowering, thought-provoking books that celebrate LGBTQ+ voices and stories.
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Tipping the Velvet
by Sarah Waters
“Erotic and absorbing…Written with startling power.”—The New York Times Book Review Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, …
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Written on the Body
by Jeanette Winterson
The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, …
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The Well of Loneliness
by Radclyffe Hall
Originally published in 1928, Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness is the timeless story of a lesbian couple's struggle to be accepted by "polite" society. …
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Stone Butch Blues
by Leslie Feinberg
Jess Goldberg decides to come out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s and then to pass as a man …
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (The New York …
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Rubyfruit Jungle
by Rita Mae Brown
Classic modern American novel orig. pub. 1973. Celebrates lesbian sexuality.
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Find Me
by Rosie O'Donnell
Part memoir, part mystery, 'Find Me' is a tale of a friendship between a troubled young woman and a celebrity obsessed with helping her. Rosie …
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
by Audre Lorde
Zami: A Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers “Zami is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in …
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Borderlands
by Gloria AnzaldĂşa
Explores life along the Mexican-American border and the experience of being caught between two cultures.
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When Fox is a Thousand
by Larissa Lai
Told in three voices, When Fox Is a Thousand blends murder, intrigue, and more than a morsel of food for thought.