18 books like Girl, Woman, Other

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Homegoing Yaa Gyasi · 2016 · ★ 4.5 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Homegoing is the debut historical fiction novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2016. Each chapter in the novel follows a different descendant of an Asante woman named Maame, starting with her two daughters, who are half-sisters, separated by circumstance: Effia marries James Collins, the British governor in charge of Cape Coast Castle, while her half-sister Esi is held… Shares: Community pick

After Delores Sarah Schulman · 1988 · ★ 3.9 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Sarah Schulman's acclaimed 1988 novel is a noirish tale about a no-nonsense coffee-shop waitress in New York who is nursing a broken heart after her girlfriend Dolores leaves her; her attempts to find love again are funny, sexy, and ultimately even violent. After Delores is a fast-paced, electrifying chronicle of the Lower East Side's lesbian subculture in the 1980s. Shares: LGBTQ novels, Lesbians

Under a Falling Star Jae · 2014 · ★ 3.8 · 394p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Falling stars are supposed to be a lucky sign, but not for Austen. Her new job as a secretary in an international games company isn't off to a good start. Her first assignment—decorating the Christmas tree in the lobby—results in a trip to the ER after Dee, the company's second-in-command, gets hit by the star-shaped tree topper. Dee blames her instant attraction to Austen on her head wound, not… Shares: Lesbian, Lesbians

From Fan to Forever Tiana Warner · 2022 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Moderate An age-gap lesbian celebrity romance about how much you’d risk to have your dream. Talented A-lister Cate Whitney is the gorgeous middle-aged movie star almost every lesbian has a crush on. Rachel Janssen, an introverted medical physics student, is no exception. So when her celebrity crush starts filming near her Vancouver apartment, she can’t believe her luck. A chance encounter with Cate… Shares: Lesbian, Lesbians

Purposefully Accidental G. Benson · 2022 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate An unfortunate accident, an old grudge, and a Sapphic fake romance. Since A-List actress and Hollywood’s sweetheart Wren Acker came out, not only is she at the top of the acting world; she’s also crush number one for her queer fanbase. Loving life, loving her job, loving her cat—everything is fantastic. Except that lack of any kind of private life. When a car accident brings her to the ER, the… Shares: Lesbian, Lesbians

Falling Hard Jae · 2017 · 365p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Can a womanizing surgeon and a single mom make it work? Dr. Jordan Williams devotes her life to two things: saving patients in the operating room and pleasuring her latest conquest in the bedroom. Her idea of commitment is spending a few hours together in bed. Single mom Emma Larson is Jordan’s polar opposite. Family and fidelity mean everything to her. After an ugly divorce from her wife, a… Shares: Lesbian, Lesbians

Departure from the Script Jae · 2014 · ★ 3.1 Love doesn’t always follow a script Aspiring actress Amanda Clark and photographer Michelle Osinski are two women burned by love and not looking to test the fire again. And even if they were, it certainly wouldn’t be with each other. Amanda has never been attracted to a butch woman before, and Michelle personifies the term butch. Having just landed a role on a hot new TV show, she’s determined… Shares: Lesbian, Lesbians

Breaking Character Lee Winter · 2018 · ★ 4.1 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A lesbian celebrity romance about gaining love, losing masks, and trying to stick to the script. Life has become a farcical mess for icy British A-lister Elizabeth Thornton. America’s most-hated villain stars in a top-rated TV medical drama that she hates. Now, she’s been romantically linked to her perky, new co-star, Summer, due to the young woman’s clumsiness. As a closeted actress, that’s the… Shares: Lesbian, Lesbians

No Thoroughfare Charles Dickens · 1800 · ★ 3.6 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging No Thoroughfare is a stage play and novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867. Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

In Pursuit of Justice Radclyffe · 2003 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Third in the Justice series Shares: Lesbian, Lesbians

The years Virginia Woolf · 1937 · 452p · ≈ 15h · Challenging A stirring, straightforward work written near the end of her luminous career, Virginia Woolf's The Years is a portrait of the Pargiters, a staid London family presided over by Colonel Abel Pargiter. In some ways, "portrait" is not an entirely appropriate word, because Woolf's subject in this novel (and an abiding concern in all of her works) is fluidity and flux: the movement of the seasons and… Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, English literature, Social life and customs

This is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar · 2019 · ★ 4.5 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked “Burn before reading. Signed, Blue.” So begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that… Shares: LGBT, English literature

Next Time Will Be Our Turn Jesse Q Sutanto · 2025 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Izzy Chen is dreading her family’s annual Chinese New Year celebration, where they all come together at a Michelin-starred restaurant to flaunt their status and successes in hopes to one up each other. So when her seventy-three-year-old glamorous and formidable grandmother walks in with a stunning woman on her arm and kisses her in front of everyone, it shakes Izzy to her core. She’d always… Shares: Lesbian, LGBT, English literature

The Lamb Lucy Rose · 2025 · ★ 3.9 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Young Margot lives in the woods with Mama. Margot only knows what Mama's taught her, and sometimes, Mama's cannibalistic urges get the better of her. Together, they take in lost hikers - "strays" as Mama calls them - and make meals of them. But one day, a beautiful, disrupting, and maybe just as dangerous woman enters their hideaway, giving way to what could be another fatal shift. Shares: Lesbian, LGBT, English literature

Tarnished Are the Stars Rosiee Thor · 2019 · ★ 4.6 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A secret beats inside Anna Thatcher's chest: an illegal clockwork heart. Anna works cog by cog -- donning the moniker Technician -- to supply black market medical technology to the sick and injured, against the Commissioner's tyrannical laws. Nathaniel Fremont, the Commissioner's son, has never had to fear the law. Determined to earn his father's respect, Nathaniel sets out to capture the… Shares: Lesbian, LGBT

Some Desperate Glory Emily Tesh · 2022 · ★ 4.0 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the all-powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the Majoda their victory over humanity. They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of… Shares: Lesbian, LGBT

聊齋誌異 Pu Songling · 1869 · ★ 4.0 · 488p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Various stories Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, English literature, Social life and customs

The Hardy Boys in A ghost in the closet Mabel Maney · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 247p · ≈ 8h · Moderate With their fearless crime-fighting, good manners, and manly fashion sense, the Hardly boys are the pride of Feyport, Illinois. In A Ghost in the Closet, dark-haired, muscular Frank and his lovable kid brother Joe return from a gay trip to Europe to find that their parents -- world-famous detective Fennel P. Hardly and his wife, Mrs. Hardly -- have been kidnapped! Even worse, so have six poodles… Shares: LGBTQ novels, Lesbians

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