Theory by Dionne Brand (literary)
After Delores by Sarah Schulman (literary with elements of murder mystery)
- Content warnings: semi-graphic sexual assault of a lesbian by another lesbian
Love Kills Twice by Rien Gray (taut, sharp noir contemporary romance)
The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith (series; literary noir)
- Content warnings: love interest death in book one
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (generation-ship dystopia)
- Content warnings: sexual assault, setting is a white supremacist generation ship that uses black people as slaves
The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar (secondary-world fantasy)
Things We Found During the Autopsy by Kuzhali Manickavel (fabulist; short story collection)
Alcestis by Katharine Beutner (myth retelling)
What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi (fabulist; short story collection)
The Race by Nina Allan (near-future science fiction)
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall (near-future dystopia)
The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer (Hades/Persephone retelling where both are women)
- Content warnings: graphic rape on-page of a secondary female character by Zeus
Earth Logic by Laurie J. Marks (series; secondary-world fantasy)
- Content warnings: rape in the back story of one of the lesbian protagonists
Thorn by Anna Burke (fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast)
- Content warnings: on-page rape of a secondary lesbian character
Disturbed by Her Song by Tanith Lee (various speculative; short story collection)
- Content warnings: men threatening to rape a lesbian in ‘The Kiss’ (this is not carried out)
Not all the writers I have listed here are queer; in many cases I simply don’t know their orientation. I do, however, try to select for queer writers who are not men and if possible queer writers of color who are not men. This can be a bit difficult for obvious reasons, as publishing is dominated by white women, mostly cisgender heterosexual ones.
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