Heya! I'm so sorry to have gone missing from this thread (and BetterMost in general) for a little while. I just needed a break from forums for a bit.
Hi Amanda! Great to see you here again!
I've missed you.
I've recently joined a lesbian bookclub in Pittsburgh and we're trying to build a reading list, so this thread is super useful!! I'm wondering if people have more recommendations of full-length books? There are a lot of anthologies listed throughout this thread, but I would love to hear more about full novels that folks have enjoyed.
Thanks in advance for help on this!
Your reviving this thread made me check out some age-old favorites of mine. No lesbian fiction among it, but some great feminist non-fiction. Most of them only in German though, I'm afraid. One I remembered, which has an American original, is
Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will.I haven't read it in 20 years or so, thus I can't say how it holds up nowadays. From the viewpoint of a discussion group, this may be not the worst thing.
My favorite feminist book always was
Ursula Scheu: Wir werden nicht als Mädchen geboren, wir werden dazu gemacht (We're not born as girls, we are
made into girls). I don't think it was ever translated into English however. But who knows, maybe at some point someone will read this post who can read German.
As for
fiction: If I think of our small BBM fandom, there are so many good stories in such a small fandom. There ought to be a plethora of stories online of lesbian fiction/erotica. There must be some good stuff among it.
Are you on goodreads? They have book groups/clubs, rec lists for almost anything, and plenty of tags. I think if you're looking for specific genres, this is a good place.
Their lists are really a great tool. If you look up a book, you get themed lists where this book is on, and can go from there. You can really get lost in their lists and surf from book to book, from list to list for hours. It shows you only two lists at a time by default, so don't forget to click "more lists with this book", you'll get plenty.
www.goodreads.com