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pamabreu88: Hi! I just recently finished reading "Tipping the Velvet" by Sarah Waters and I absolutely loved it!! Are there any other similar books that have romance but are also good stories while being a bit erotic too you might recommend? Sorry for taking 100 years to answer this! The first ones I can think of are Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg These are all ~literary queer women books with a some eroticism to them, though they are mostly darker than I found Tipping the Velvet. Hopefully some FYLL followers will have more suggestions!  [image description: a photo of a shelf of queer books: Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel, Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, Nevada by Imogen Binnie, Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein, Trauma Queen by Lovemme Corazón, The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m. danforth, How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir by Amber Dawn, Coming Out Spiritually: The Next Step by Christian de la Huerta, Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg, The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez, 37 Things I Love by Kekla Magoon, Breakfast On Pluto by Patrick McCabe, (You) Set Me On Fire by Mariko Tamaki, Rose of No Man’s Land by Michelle Tea, Holding Still as Long as Possible by Zoe Whittall, Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger, Orlando by Virginia Woolf]
Trans Books by Trans Authors (35 books)Not strictly lesbian, but I created a list of books by and about trans people if anyone wants to add to it! It’s only for books that are by authors who identify as trans and the book has to have a trans main character (or topic, if nonfiction). 
Anonymous: Hi! First, I'd like to thank you for taking time to run this great page, and then second of all, I was wondering if you knew any recommendations for books with lesbian or bisexual girls in like the 1920s or 1940s. Thanks :)
I don’t know of a lot more YA books, other than Make Much of Me by Kayla Bashe and The Chinese Garden by Rosemary Manning (written in the 1960s, set in the 1920s), though I do second the suggestion of Silhouette of a Sparrow! It’s one of my favourite books! As for any other 1920s lesbian fiction, I highly recommend The Last Nude by Ellis Avery and The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters. Those and Silhouette are all fantastic, but they have really different takes on the time period, which is interesting. Oh, and The Gilda Stories has one section set in the 1920s! More 1920s lesbian fiction that I haven’t read:
For the 1940s, I don’t know of any YA, but I have to recommend Sarah Waters again (she’s my favourite author). This time, The Night Watch. Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer is nonfiction and I loved it. Luckily there’s already a Goodreads list for WWII Lesbian Historical Fiction! But here’s a few more 1940s ones as well:
For anyone looking for just general lesbian historical YA, here’s a list for that (or check out Good Lesbian Books’s list for more info). And if you’re looking for any lesbian historical fiction, there’s a list for that (or Good Lesbian Books again). Hope that helps!
Anonymous: Hey, I love this blog! I was wondering if you know of any lesbian fictional literature based in the 20th century (particularly around 50s, 60s) in the western world? Sure! I would recommend checking out these lists of historical lesbian fiction, as well as this list of WWII lesbian fiction, but especially the Bosom Friends website. To be honest, I haven’t read a lot of lesbian books set in the 50s or 60s. The only ones I can personally recommend are Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown, The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, and Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg. If you’re looking for lesbian pulp, Spring Fire by Vin Packer and the Beebo Brinker series by Ann Bannon are good places to start–but beware that lesbian pulp tends on the melodramatic/depressing side. For more general historical fiction set in the western world in the 20th century, I like: 1850-2050: The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez ~1910-1940: The Color Purple by Alice Walker 1920s: Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin, The Last Nude by Ellis Avery, The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters 1940s: The Night Watch by Sarah Waters 1990s: The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m. danforth Hope that helps, and hopefully other people have more 1950s and 60s suggestions! 
fresh---water-blog: Hey! Thank you for your most excellent tumblr, I've just discovered it and I love it. I wondered if you could help... I'm looking for some non fiction writing on queer femme identities, do you know of any books I could look up around this? Thanks so much x
Anonymous: Hi, do you have any lists or recs for lesbian theory and/or nonfictional/historical reading? Sure! These lists might help: Lesbian-Feminist Nonfiction and Lesbian history. Some of my favourite lesbian nonfiction reads have been Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue and Kicked Out by Sassafras Lowrey.
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