Lesbian Herstory
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
by:
Lillian Faderman
4.02 avg rating — 4,057 ratings 2. 
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community 4.19 avg rating — 792 ratings
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Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
by:
Lillian Faderman
4.02 avg rating — 844 ratings 4. 
The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture
by:
Bonnie J. Morris
3.96 avg rating — 137 ratings 
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To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History
by:
Lillian Faderman
4.23 avg rating — 293 ratings 7. 
Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women (Intersections, 15)
by:
Leila J. Rupp
3.65 avg rating — 280 ratings 8. 
Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Birth of the Lesbian Rights Movement
by:
Marcia M. Gallo
3.92 avg rating — 143 ratings 9. 
When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love and Revolution
by:
Jeanne Cordova
4.06 avg rating — 319 ratings 
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I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister 1791–1840
by:
Anne Lister
4.03 avg rating — 354 ratings 
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Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
by:
Martin Duberman
4.02 avg rating — 487 ratings 14. 
Lesbian Culture: An Anthology : The Lives, Work, Ideas, Art and Visions of Lesbians Past and Present
by:
Julia Penelope
4.19 avg rating — 32 ratings 15. 
Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
by:
Emma Donoghue
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 400 ratings 
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Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England
by:
Sharon Marcus
3.95 avg rating — 339 ratings 19. 
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
by:
Lillian Faderman
4.05 avg rating — 371 ratings 20. 
Wolf Girls at Vassar: Lesbian & Gay Experiences 1930-1990
by:
Anne MacKay
3.94 avg rating — 68 ratings 
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Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two
by:
Allan Bérubé
4.27 avg rating — 1,068 ratings 24. 
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The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability
by:
Kristen Hogan
3.84 avg rating — 83 ratings 26. 
Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801
by:
Emma Donoghue
3.69 avg rating — 180 ratings 27. 
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy
by:
Judith C. Brown
3.68 avg rating — 910 ratings 28. 
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Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet
by:
Philip Freeman
3.92 avg rating — 448 ratings 30. 
The Lesbian Revolution: Lesbian Feminism in the UK, 1970-1990
by:
Sheila Jeffreys
4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings 31. 
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Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism 4.17 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Queer There and Everywhere: 22 People Who Changed the World
by:
Sarah Prager
4.13 avg rating — 3,204 ratings 35. 
A Lesbian History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Women Since 1500
by:
Rebecca Jennings
3.95 avg rating — 61 ratings 
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Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
by:
Laura Horak
3.92 avg rating — 60 ratings 
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Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary
by:
Fran Martin
4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings 
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The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany (Monographs in German History, 32)
by:
Katie Sutton
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings 47. 
Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall
by:
Marie Cartier
4.03 avg rating — 39 ratings 48. 
Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969
by:
Jaye Zimet
3.98 avg rating — 122 ratings 49. 
Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65 (Sexuality Studies series)
by:
Cameron Duder
4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings 
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Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778 - 1928
by:
Martha Vicinus
3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings 51. 
Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community across Canada, 1964-84
by:
Liz Millward
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings 53. 
Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbians During the Third Reich 4.07 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Sappho Was a Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism
by:
Sidney Abbott
3.74 avg rating — 100 ratings 
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Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, and Art: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks
by:
Diana Souhami
3.71 avg rating — 326 ratings 57. 
Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel
by:
Lisa L. Moore
3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings 58. 
Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods v. Dame Cumming Gordon
by:
Lillian Faderman
3.83 avg rating — 86 ratings 59. 
Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels, 1950-1965 3.81 avg rating — 262 ratings
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The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renee Vivien
by:
Karla Jay
4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings 62. 
Gentleman Jack: A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist
by:
Angela Steidele
3.74 avg rating — 1,318 ratings 
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The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830
by:
Susan S. Lanser
3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings 64. 
A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australia’s Only All-Girl Garage
by:
Loretta Smith
4.13 avg rating — 159 ratings 
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She and Her Pretty Friend: The Hidden History of Australian Women Who Love Women 4.15 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left
by:
Emily K. Hobson
4.23 avg rating — 114 ratings 
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Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism and Gendered Sexualities
by:
Francesca Stella
3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings 74. 
The Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward (Haworth Innovations in Feminist Studies) 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Presenting The Past: Anne Lister Of Halifax, 1791–1840
by:
Jill Liddington
4.27 avg rating — 84 ratings 75. 
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Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle
by:
Lois W. Banner
3.58 avg rating — 72 ratings 78. 
Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement
by:
Wendy L. Rouse
3.82 avg rating — 101 ratings 79. 
Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages
by:
Pamela Sheingorn
3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings 79. 
Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: A Lesbian History of Post-War Britain 1945-71
by:
Rebecca Jennings
3.83 avg rating — 46 ratings 81. 
Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality, 850 - 1780 A.D.
by:
Samar Habib
3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings 82. 
Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures (The Middle Ages Series)
by:
Sahar Amer
4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings 83. 
Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations
by:
Samar Habib
4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings 84. 
Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics
by:
Naisargi N. Dave
4.24 avg rating — 49 ratings 
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Improper Bostonians: Lesbian and Gay History from the Puritans to Playland
by:
History Project
3.93 avg rating — 58 ratings 85. 
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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality
by:
Hanne Blank
3.78 avg rating — 1,117 ratings 
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Brazen Hussies: A Herstory of Radical Activism in the Women's Liberation Movement in Victoria 1970–1979
by:
Jean Taylor
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 92. 
Stroppy Dykes: Radical Lesbian Feminist Activism in Victoria During the 1980s
by:
Jean Taylor
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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Lesbians Ignite!: In Victoria in the 1990s
by:
Jean Taylor
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 95. 
From Shame to Pride: Coming Out in the 1950s, Changes in Lesbian Life, Glimpses of Life and Fun
by:
Marcia Zeimer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 96. 
Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century
by:
John C. Beynon
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity
by:
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
3.48 avg rating — 25 ratings 99. 
Odd Women?: Spinsters, Lesbians and Widows in British Women's Fiction, 1850s–1930s
by:
Emma Liggins
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings 100. 
Britannia's Glory: A History of Twentieth-Century Lesbians
by:
Emily Hamer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings