Let’s Go Lesbians! 32 Books for Lesbian Visibility Day

TODAY! is Lesbian Visibility Day, the first day of Lesbian Visibility Week – April 26, 2024. We are, I’m sure you’re shocked to discover, celebrating with LOTS of lesbian books! 15 people contributed to making this list, all of us sharing our absolute faves, from graphic novels to epic novels, from memoirs to horror fiction, with explicit rep and implied. With this many awesome books to share, we’re prepared to guarantee that everyone who loves wlw lit can find something new to them on this amazing list!

• Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin
• The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
• Belle of the Ball by Mari Costa
• Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable & Ellen T. Crenshaw
• She Wears the Midnight Crown Anthology
• Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake
• The Scapegracers & The Scratch Daughters by H.A. Clarke
• Spinning by Tillie Walden
• The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
• The Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
• The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard
• Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
• She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick
• Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
• One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
• Those Who Wait by Haley Cass
• Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
• Into the Bloodred Woods by Martha Brockenbrough
• From Here by Luma Mufleh
• Alice Isn’t Dead by Joseph Fink
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
• A Memory Called Empire & A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
• Female General, Eldest Princess by Please Don’t Laugh
• Clear And Muddy Loss of Love by Please Don’t Laugh
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar
• Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
• A Restless Truth by Freya Marske
• The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz
• Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

Can’t get enough books with lesbians? Yeah, us neither – this new list for 2024 is on top of THREE rec lists of titles featuring lesbians that we posted last year.

• Lesbian Visibility Week Recs Part 1
• Lesbian Visibility Week Recs Part 2
• Duck Prints Press Short Stories with Lesbian Characters

You can also view this list (along with all our other wlw faves!) as a shelf on Goodreads!

See a book you want to buy? You can grab it through the Duck Prints Press Bookshop.org affiliate shop!

What are YOUR favorite reads with lesbian characters?