Sapphic Literary Fiction

Updated February 9, 2023
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The color purple
Walker, Alice
Paper Book
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that tells the story of two sisters through their correspondence. With a new Preface by the author.
Here comes the sun : a novel
Dennis-Benn, Nicole
Paper Book
Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis- Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her younger sister, Thandi, to school. Taught as a girl to...
Olivia
Bussy, Dorothy
Ebook
"I read Olivia many, many times, bought it for many of my friends, and consider it the inspiration for Call Me by Your Name." --André Aciman "Perfectly captures the breathless excitement of adolescent passion." --Sarah Waters, bestselling author of Fingersmith...
Oranges are not the only fruit
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-
Ebook
The New York Times-bestselling author's Whitbread Prize-winning debut--"Winterson has mastered both comedy and tragedy in this rich little novel" (The Washington Post Book World).   When it first appeared, Jeanette Winterson's extraordinary debut novel received...
Patsy : a novel
Dennis-Benn, Nicole
Paper Book
Heralded for writing "deeply memorable . . . women" (Jennifer Senior, New York Times), Nicole Dennis-Benn introduces readers to an unforgettable heroine for our times: the eponymous Patsy, who leaves her young daughter behind in Jamaica to follow Cicely, her oldest friend, to New York. Beating with...
The pull of the stars : a novel
Donoghue, Emma
Paper Book
In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews) In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an...
This is how you lose the time war
El-Mohtar, Amal,
Paper Book
* HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * "[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with cause...
You Should See Me in a Crown
Johnson, Leah
Paper Book
A TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All Time A Stonewall Honor Book A Reese's Book Club YA Pick Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it's okay -- Liz has a...

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