Writers every lesbian should read (an incomplete list):
HERstory
Lillian Faderman (especially Surpassing the Love of Men, To Believe in Women, and Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers)
The journal Sinister Wisdom (every lesbian should subscribe!)
Rebecca Brown (especially Gifts of the Body and American Romances)
Audre Lorde (especially The Uses of the Erotic)
Adrienne Rich (especially On Lies, Secrets and Silence)
Minnie Bruce Pratt (Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991)
Mab Segrest (My Mama's Dead Squirrel: Lesbian Essays on Southern Culture)
Barrie Jean Borich (My Lesbian Husband: Essays)
Dorothy Allison (Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature)
Joan Nestle (A Restricted Country)
Sarah Schulman (My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years)
Novelists
Jeanette Winterson (especially Written on the Body, The Passion, The Powerbook, Stone Gods, Gut Symmetries)
Aimee and Jaguar, by Erica Fisher
Sarah Waters (especially Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith)
Virginia Woolf (especially Orlando)
Shamim Sarif (especially The World Unseen and all the movies she makes)
Rebecca Brown (especially Terrible Girls and Annie Oakley's Girl)
Classics you should probably read
Patience and Sarah, by Isabel Miller
The Price of Salt, by Patricia Highsmith
The Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall (had to list it)
Rubyfruit Jungle, by Rita Mae Brown
Annie on my Mind, by Nancy Garden
lesbian pulp fiction of the 1950s (it's so entertaining)
correspondence between lesbians from history
YA books
If You Could Be Mine, by Sara Farizan
Tea, by Stacey D'Erasmo
Kissing Kate, by Lauren Myracle
The Beginning of Us, by Sarah Brooks
Memoirs
Why Be Happy When You Can't Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Zami, by Audre Lorde
Stone Butch Blues, by Leslie Feinberg
Poets
Adrienne Rich
Audre Lorde
Mary Oliver
Eileen Myles
June Jordan
Margaret Randall
Marilyn Hacker
Akeilah Oliver
Robin Becker
Olga Broumas
Judy Grahn
Emily Dickinson (?)
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