8 Books with Bi or Homoromantic Asexual Women Characters
Books with ace homo/bi/panromantic women characters do exist! Here’s a list of eight of these very real and awesome books in genres like romance, fantasy, YA and more!
LGBT literature
Lez Liberty Lit: Language as Control
Language is a way to exercise control. Also some Pride reading lists, three Latinx zines, dying languages and more.
“My Lady’s Choosing” Is the Bisexual Jane Austen Choose Your Own Adventure Novel of Your Wildest Dreams
Lady Evangeline is as capable as ripping your bodice as Sir Benedict Granville, and that’s just one of the brilliant things about this interactive romance novel.
24 Queer YA Books Coming Out This Summer and Beyond
The queer YA books you’ll want to read at the beach, the park, and everywhere else this summer!
Lez Liberty Lit: Hypnotic Decay
How lesbian pulp fiction saved lives, Michelle Tea’s Against Memoir, gay love letters, what counts as “well read” and more.
Monday Roundtable: Our Favorite LGBTQ Novels
It’s truly magical when you can find a novel with lesbian or bisexual or queer characters that speaks to you and tells a damn good story.
Lez Liberty Lit: Going Analog
Nobel-cancelling sex scandals, writing by hand, what to read if you want to read funny women, the myth of women authors with only one good book and more.
8 Action/Adventure Books with Queer Women Main Characters
Check out these queer-women-fronted action and adventure novels, including basically Die Hard but with lesbians, basically The X-Files but with a bisexual love triangle, pirate stories, thrillers and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Forget Books
A history of twentieth century women critics, why “being nice” is a scam, queer books for teens, Independent Bookstore Day and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Recovering Narratives
New thoughts on South Asian cultural identity in YA, writing recovery and addiction narratives, Joan Didion’s reading list, how Judy Blume taught girls to be feminists and more.
8 Dark Lesbian Mysteries and Thrillers That’ll Give You Deep Chills
These dark mysteries and thrillers featuring lesbian and bisexual main characters focus less on the romance and more on the hair raising on the back of your neck.
Lez Liberty Lit: Possibly Infinite Meaning
Books as medicine or advice, what’s happening to feminist bookstores, addiction and recovery narratives and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: In the Dictionary Like a Dumpster Fire
Complaining about language, a new zine about sisterhood beyond gender, Lambda Literary finalists, “dumpster fire” makes the dictionary and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Reading on an Empty Stomach
How queer books are still marketed to straight readers, horror novels and OCD, OED feelings, feminist fonts, Virginia Woolf’s photo albums and more.
Queers at the End of the World: An Interview with Queer Feminist Fabulist Carmen Maria Machado
Talking about Kristen Stewart, gems, lesbian tropes, Girl Scout crushes, swine flu, the apocalypse and more with award-winning queer writer Carmen Maria Machado.
Lez Liberty Lit: Women and Power
The literature of Ezili and finding lesbians and queers in Caribbean literature, feel(ing) free, new Foucault, taking young women’s love stories seriously and more.
8 Books to Read If You Loved Carmen Maria Machado’s “Her Body and Other Parties”
Here are eight queer short story collections that embody the same kind of creepy, “bodies as horror,” fabulist, dark fairy tale feel that Machado’s book does.
Lez Liberty Lit: Let’s Hang In Lesbian Victorian London
Lesbian classic Tipping the Velvet turns 20. Plus mansplaining in the OED, RIP Ursula K Le Guin, Elena Ferrante’s new column and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Backwards Books
A proposed New York prison book ban, asexuality in fiction, working from home, paper planners, spine-in books and more.
Read These 8 Works of Intersex Fiction Right Now
Eight stories that feature intersex characters for you to read right now.