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Smart Lesbian Books
This is a list for quality lesbian titles that really make you step back and think for awhile. The list is open to any writing genre featuring strong, smart, and capable lesbian protagonists.
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Hoosier Daddy
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Ann McMan (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 536 ratings
score: 684,
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Jericho
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Ann McMan (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 3,754 ratings
score: 682,
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7 people voted
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Compass Rose (Compass Rose, #1)
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Anna Burke (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 2,730 ratings
score: 453,
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5 people voted
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Paper is White
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Hilary Zaid (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 226 ratings
score: 392,
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4 people voted
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Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound: A Novel
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Judith Katz (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 125 ratings
score: 297,
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3 people voted
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Dust (Evan Reed Mysteries, #1)
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Ann McMan (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 691 ratings
score: 283,
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3 people voted
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The Carousel
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Stefani Deoul (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 34 ratings
score: 277,
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3 people voted
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The Raven's Heart: A Story of a Quest, a Castle and Mary Queen of Scots
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Jesse Blackadder (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 312 ratings
score: 268,
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3 people voted
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Giraffe People
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Jill Malone (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 61 ratings
score: 245,
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3 people voted
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The Breath Between Waves
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Charlotte Anne Hamilton (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 250 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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If You Could Be Mine
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3.71 avg rating — 10,239 ratings
score: 199,
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2 people voted
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Of Trust & Heart
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Charlotte Anne Hamilton (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 104 ratings
score: 198,
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2 people voted
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Beyond the Pale
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4.33 avg rating — 1,153 ratings
score: 195,
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2 people voted
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Riverfinger Women
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3.56 avg rating — 71 ratings
score: 193,
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2 people voted
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Risk
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3.41 avg rating — 46 ratings
score: 191,
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2 people voted
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Goldenrod (A Jericho Novel)
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Ann McMan (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 641 ratings
score: 184,
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2 people voted
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On a LARP (A Sid Rubin Silicon Alley Adventure, #1)
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Stefani Deoul (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 102 ratings
score: 178,
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2 people voted
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Belle City
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Penny Mickelbury (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 174,
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2 people voted
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I Came Out for This?: A Novel
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Lisa Gitlin (Goodreads Author)
3.29 avg rating — 45 ratings
score: 173,
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2 people voted
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The Ada Decades
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Paula Martinac (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 78 ratings
score: 170,
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2 people voted
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Out of Time
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Paula Martinac (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 158 ratings
score: 165,
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2 people voted
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Chicken
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Paula Martinac (Goodreads Author)
3.23 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 163,
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2 people voted
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Home Movies
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Paula Martinac (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 161,
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2 people voted
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Idaho Code
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3.97 avg rating — 137 ratings
score: 159,
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2 people voted
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Women's History For Beginners
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4.05 avg rating — 44 ratings
score: 158,
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2 people voted
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Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women's Music Festivals
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4.31 avg rating — 42 ratings
score: 156,
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2 people voted
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Sappho's Bar and Grill
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3.56 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 154,
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2 people voted
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The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture
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3.96 avg rating — 135 ratings
score: 152,
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2 people voted
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The Feminist Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and the Struggle for Women's Liberation
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4.08 avg rating — 72 ratings
score: 149,
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2 people voted
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Red Audrey and the Roping
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Jill Malone (Goodreads Author)
3.42 avg rating — 93 ratings
score: 147,
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2 people voted
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A Field Guide to Deception
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Jill Malone (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 52 ratings
score: 143,
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2 people voted
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Verge
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Z. Egloff (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 48 ratings
score: 141,
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2 people voted
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Miss McGhee: Young Love
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Bett Norris (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 95 ratings
score: 137,
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2 people voted
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Last Chance at the Lost and Found
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3.62 avg rating — 24 ratings
score: 134,
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2 people voted
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The Escape Artist
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Judith Katz (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 98 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Worthy of Love
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Quinn Ivins (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 611 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Fifth Surgeon
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Faith Prize (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Sovereign of Psiere (Mystery of the Makers, #1)
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K. Aten (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 252 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Chemistry Lessons
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Jae (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 2,231 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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The Love Song of Ivy K. Harlowe
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Hannah Moskowitz (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 602 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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A Curse of Roses
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Diana Pinguicha (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 1,482 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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They Will Know Me By My Teeth: Stories and Poems of Lesbian Struggle, Celebration, And Survival
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4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Nothing Will Be As Sweet As the Taste: Selected Poems 1974-1994
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4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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What Can I Ask: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2014 (Sinister Wisdom 96)
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score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Postcards from the Canyon
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Lisa Gitlin (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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Aftermath
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Ann McMan (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 1,213 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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Backcast
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Ann McMan (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 407 ratings
score: 85,
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1 person voted
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Sidecar
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Ann McMan (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 224 ratings
score: 84,
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1 person voted
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June Magee, R.N. Festival Nurse
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Ann McMan (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 139 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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Three Plus One
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Ann McMan (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 82 ratings
score: 82,
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1 person voted
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Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas: A Diz and Clarissa Story
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Ann McMan (Goodreads Author)
4.58 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 81,
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1 person voted
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Death's Echoes
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Penny Mickelbury (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 38 ratings
score: 75,
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1 person voted
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Lubavitcher Women in America: Identity and Activism in the Postwar Era
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2.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 66,
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1 person voted
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The Girls Club
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Sally Bellerose (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 98 ratings
score: 59,
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1 person voted
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What's Best for Jane
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Bett Norris (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 57,
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1 person voted
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2º
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4.01 avg rating — 70 ratings
score: 54,
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23 voters ·
list created February 20th, 2018
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