TOP 5 Lesbian Books (Fiction) 鈥� November
Love Alters听edited by Emma Donoghue
Leave it to one of the world鈥檚 top lesbian writers to gather some of the best lesbian short stories since Stonewall. Bringing together work from right across the English speaking world, there are many of the usual bestselling suspects here, but many fresh emerging voices as well. Highly recommended.
The World We Found:听A Novel听by Thrity Umrigar
Armaiti, Laley, Kavita and Nishta shared everything during university days in 1970s Bombay. Now drifted apart, Armaiti asks that they get together one last time before she dies. Unresolved feelings surface as they revisit lost love and betrayals. Winner Lambda Award for Lesbian Fiction.
The听Girl on the Stairs听by Louise Welsh
This lesbian gothic and powerful psychological thriller sees six-month pregnant Jane wandering Berlin鈥檚 back streets finding the back stories of its secretive residents. As her past catches up with her, Jane鈥檚 behaviour becomes increasingly erratic and danger is always ever present.
Blue is the Warmest Color听by Julie Maroh
Published in French in 2010, it is now translated after the release of the Palm D鈥橭r winning film adaptation. This erotic and captivating lesbian graphic novel tells of 15-year-old Clementine whose life is changed at a gay bar when she is entranced by Emma, the girl with the blue hair.
The Best 100 Poems of Dorothy Porter听Selected by Andrea Goldsmith
The first anthology of Porter鈥檚 work covering all her works from 1975鈥檚 The Little Hoodlum to 2009鈥檚 The Bee Hut. Selected by her partner Andrea Goldsmith, the collection brings out Porter鈥檚 themes of mythology, intimacy, sex and the science of love in a beautiful hardback collection.
I like the sound of The World We Found – thanks for the tips!
I give a nod to ‘Janis and Saint Christopher’. It features Janis Joplin as a 70-year-old lesbian on tour in Australia in 2013.