Like the wild hyacinth flower which on the hills is found,
Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough,Ītop on the topmost twig, - which the pluckers forgot, somehow, -įorget it not, nay but got it not, for none could get it till now. So let’s cut out the preamble and take a step into the world of the classic and dreamy, and check out our top ten suggestions for the best lesbian romance books and your next read. You don’t need to be told that though – after all, you’re here and reading this article. It’s addictive, it’s captivating, it mirrors fantasies and dreams set in the real world, and – most of all – it packs an emotional rollercoaster ride for the ages. Today, there are more readers interested in lesbian fiction than ever before, and the genre gains traction every day. The 50s and 60s brought a flood of queer interest into the literature world, with a famous example being Tereska Torres’ ‘Women’s Barracks’. The 1928 novel ‘The Well of Loneliness’ is often considered to be the first explicitly lesbian-themed novel written in English, but it certainly wasn’t the last. This trend continued with the swell of modern novel styles, with a few periods of works from the early 19th-century holding and implying strong lesbian themes very often even where the slightest male-to-male mention of homosexuality would have been picked up on immediately.
There’s Sappho again for you – if only this Grecian poet knew the queer icon she’d turned out to be. Much to the contrary, lesbian fiction has been running strong for thousands of years, with some of the earliest recovered excerpts coming from as early as 2,500 years ago. Many people consider queer romance fiction to be a modern phenomenon from the era of the internet, especially when it pertains to young adults and contains YA themes, but much like bad-faith breakdowns of the connection between Sappho and her ‘friend’, they couldn’t be further from the truth.
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