Coming Out Lesbian & Sapphic Fiction Books
48 lesbian & sapphic fiction books that use the coming out trope — a character comes to terms with, and shares, their queer identity. Top picks: Stone Butch Blues (1993), Annie on My Mind (1982) and The Desert of the Heart (1964).
Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg
Annie on My Mind
Nancy Garden
The Desert of the Heart
Jane Rule
Curious Wine
Katherine V. Forrest
Ophelia after All
Racquel Marie
Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World
Ashley Herring Blake
The Bermudez Triangle
Maureen Johnson
Choices
Nancy Toder
Fan Art
Sarah Tregay
Hey, Dollface
Deborah Hautzig
Love, Zena Beth
Diane Salvatore
Venus Envy
Rita Mae Brown
Does Your Mama Know?
Lisa C. Moore
In at the Deep End
Kate Davies
Alma Mater
Rita Mae Brown
The Shared Heart
Adam Mastoon
Undone
Cat Clarke
Another Life Altogether
Elaine Beale
Another Kind Of Love
Paula Christian
Delta Belles
Penelope J. Stokes
Night Diving
Michelene Esposito
The Gay Year
Michael Jean De Forrest
Tough Love
Abby Denson
The Short Year
Barbra Ward
Outside the Flock
Jackie Calhoun
Twilight Girls
Paula Christian
To the Edge
Cameron Abbott
Giraffe People
Jill Malone
For the Hard Ones
Tatiana De la Tierra
Interminable Longing
Judith Johnson
Forgive me if I've told you this before
Karelia Stetz-Waters
Everything Changes
Samantha Hale
Relatively Norma
Anna Livia
The Crabapple Tree
Lyndsey D'Arcangelo
Vital Ties
Karen Kringle
Living in Sin
Anastasia Vitsky
The Wrestling Party
Bett Williams
The Inside of Out
Jenn Marie Thorne
In Broad Daylight
Jane Vollbrecht
The Love of Two Women
Jean Vivian
Arusha
J. E. Knowles
The revelation of Beatrice Darby
Jean Copeland
Adventures of a GWF
Dorian Beth Wenzel
Complementary Colors
Kate Evans
Letters from the Closet
Tony Ferrante
Raging Mother Mountain
Pat Emmerson
Of Two Minds
Sylvia Madrigal
Speak Out, My Heart
Robin Jordan