Let’s Go Lesbians: Books That Actually Use the Word Lesbian to Describe Their Characters

Books Starring Lesbian Characters

The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes

I mean, “lesbian” is close determination successful the title! After coming retired to her champion person went terribly wrong, Yamilet is acceptable for a caller commencement astatine a caller Catholic school. But she knows being a queer Mexican American pupil is going to marque her and her brother’s acquisition determination rocky astatine best, truthful she’s determined to enactment successful the closet. But that turns retired to beryllium adjacent harder than expected erstwhile she meets the cute, charming, lone retired lesbian successful the school.

All Are Welcome by Liz Parker

Caroline wants a laidback wedding, and her fiancé Tiny isn’t truly definite what benignant of wedding she wants. But their parents person tons of large plans for the destination wedding successful Bermuda. As guests get with their ain play successful tow, the wedding lawsuit spirals retired of Tiny and Caroline’s control. It’s an extravagant, drama-filled lesbian wedding caller that volition support you cheery gasping to the precise end.

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Roses, successful the Mouth of a Lion by Bushra Rehman

Razia is coming of property successful a tight-knit Pakistani American assemblage successful Corona, Queens. As friendships are made and broken, Razia rebels similar immoderate teenager: wearing abbreviated skirts, listening to euphony that shocks her parents, and cutting school. But erstwhile she’s accepted astatine a prestigious Manhattan schoolhouse and finds herself falling for a classmate, the colliding worlds of her caller schoolhouse and vicinity assemblage unit Razia to take betwixt her existent aforesaid and who her household wants her to be.

With Teeth by Kristen Arnett

Sammie and her woman Monika wanted to beryllium mothers, but present that Monika is the breadwinner and Sammie spends her days caring for their lad Samson, she finds herself sick astatine easiness arsenic a caretaker. Part of that whitethorn beryllium due to the fact that of her lad — withholding affection, intolerable to decipher — but portion is due to the fact that Sammie struggles to navigate the boundaries betwixt motherhood and personhood. As her narration with Monika grows progressively strained, Sammie isn’t definite however to grip her son’s atrocious behavior, ranging from mildly embarrassing to downright dangerous. (If you bask this one, beryllium definite to cheque retired Arnett’s arsenic queer and chaotic caller Mostly Dead Things too.)

Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie

Skye believes successful surviving beingness connected the edge, ne'er putting down roots. She’s made it astir to 40 this way, and present she runs a question company, spending astir of the twelvemonth acold from friends and household successful Philly. But past a determination she made for speedy currency successful her 20s — selling her eggs — leads to a young pistillate who shares fractional her DNA showing up connected her doorstep. Skye uncharacteristically decides to get to cognize the young woman, and abruptly each her enactment to support from increasing attached to anyone falls to pieces.

Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner

Jo Jones is simply a famous, and notoriously private, histrion and screenwriter. So erstwhile a reddish carpet representation of her and her adjunct Emma leads to rumors of a concealed romance, she sticks to her policy: nary comment. But arsenic the rumors proceed to grow, Jo and Emma some statesman to wonderment if determination is much to their narration than they realized. It’s a slowburn lesbian romance that volition person you screaming, “Oh my god, buss already!”

Everyone successful This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily R. Austin

Twentysomething lesbian atheist Gilda shows up astatine a vicinity Catholic religion aft seeing an advertisement for escaped therapy. She’s accidentally interviewed to regenerate a precocious deceased receptionist instead, and is excessively embarrassed to constituent retired the mistake erstwhile she realizes what’s happening. When she accepts the job, she grows progressively obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death.

Not My Problem by Ciara Smyth

Lesbian teen Aideen has a golden prima successful faking obscure diseases to get retired of P.E. So erstwhile she catches her nemesis Meabh successful a susceptible infinitesimal of freaking retired astir overcommitting herself successful her extracurriculars, Aideen offers to propulsion her down the stairs. Sounds rude, but the twisted ankle works similar magic to wide up Meabh’s schedule. But suddenly, much and much students are coming to Aideen to find antithetic solutions to their problems. All that fixing different people’s lives mightiness conscionable beryllium the inspiration Aideen needs to get her ain beingness successful bid — and find a small romance on the way.

D’Vaughn & Kris Plan a Wedding by Chencia C. Higgins

Kris is striving to interruption done arsenic an influencer. D’Vaughn is looking for a mode to yet travel retired arsenic a lesbian to her mom. Enter Instant I Do, a world amusement wherever Kris and D’Vaughn tin some get what they privation — positive $100,000 — if they tin program an astonishing wedding successful conscionable six weeks. But erstwhile they commencement to autumn for each other, they recognize they’re successful for adjacent much of a twist than they expected.