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I have listed all the books I know to this day that is about women that loves women. Why I have devided Lesbian and Gay Literature is because they do not follow the same history. Lesbian Literature started to really flourish in the late 2000th Century. Even if there always have been many womyn authors, and there are important authors that are believed to have been lesbian before the 20th Century, like the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, the lesbian lifestyle was not portrayed by lesbians as such. In the middle of the 20th Century for example there was a boom where many erotic stories about lesbians started to be produced, but this wasn't really for lesbians themselves but rather for heterosexual men, and written by heterosexuals. But Lesbian literature has been around a few decades before that, Well of Loneliness (1928), is seen by many as the start, but it was produced 40 years after the first gay novel saw its light.  The same year Virginia Woolf's Orlando came, in more disguised ways was portraying a woman that was bisexual/transsexual or sexless. Lots of Gertrude Stein's work was also very easily interpretated as lesbian literature.

Adult Fiction/Memoirs

Children Books