33 Books with Lesbian Protagonists for Lesbian Visibility Week!

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HAPPY LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK! We asked our rec list recommenders for books starring lesbian characters, and boy did they deliver! With these books added in, we’ve now recommended over 100 books with lesbian main characters over the past few years (links to those full lists are at the end of the post). The contributors to the list are: Ivy L. James, Tryan A Bex, Shea Sullivan, jumblejen, Evangeline Giaconia, Shannon, Rascal Hartley, Shadaras, Sebastian Marie, Dei Walker, Mikki Madison, Puck, Nina Waters, E. C., and Linnea Peterson.

• Breaking Character by Lee Winter
• Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame by Neon Yang
• The Girl from the Sea by Lee Knox Ostertag
• But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo
• Kase-San and… series by Hiromi Takashima
• The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
• Goodbye, My Rose Garden by Dr. Pepperco
• A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
• Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott
• Matrix by Lauren Groff
• Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
• One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
• The Beauty’s Blade by Feng Ren Zuo Shu
• Spent by Alison Bechdel
• Alter Ego by Ana C. Sánchez
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
• All the Painted Stars by Emma Denny
• The Unbroken by C.L. Clark
• Pembroke Park by Michelle Martin
• Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan
• Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
• The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite
• Navigating With You by Jeremy Whitley
• Burning Roses by S.L. Huang
• Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas
• Yuri Espoir by Mai Naoi
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
• Proper English by KJ Charles
• Skullrunner by Vyvre Argent

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