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50 Books by Lesbian Writers of Colour

Novels/Short Stories

1. Chinelo Okparanta, Under the Udala Trees.
2. Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night.
3. Alice Walker, The Color Purple.
4. Nalo Hopkinson, Falling in Love with Hominids.
5. Hiromo Goto, The Kappa Child.
6. Farzana Doctor, Stealing Nasreen.
7. Qiu Miaojin, Last Words from Montmartre.
8. Suniti Namjoshi, Feminist Fables.
9. Larissa Lai, Salt Fish Girl.
10. Makeda Silvera, The Heart Does Not Bend.
11. Jewelle L. Gomez, The Gilda Stories.
12. Olukemi Amala, Under an Emerald Sky.
13. Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene, For Sizakele.
14. Rebecca Idris, The Sitar.
15. Emma Perez, Gulf Dreams.
16. Mala Kumar, The Paths of Marriage.
17. Achy Obejas, Memory Mambo.
18. Ann-Marie Macdonald – Fall On Your Knees.***
19. Alicia Gaspar De Alba, Sor Juana’s Second Dream.
20. Carla Trujillo, What Night Brings.
21. Jackie Kay, Trumpet.
22. Paula Gunn Allen, The Woman Who Owned the Shadows.
23. LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Jam on the Vine.
24. Sheila Ortiz Taylor, Fautline: A Novel.
25. Nila Gupta – The Sherpa and Other Fictions.
26. Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe.
27. Cherry Muhanji, Her: A Novel.
28. Samar Habib, Rughum & Najda.
29. Terri de la Peña, Margins.

YA Fiction

30, Tamai Kobayashi, Prairie Ostrich.
31. Jacqueline Woodson, The House You Pass on the Way.
32. Nina Revoyr, The Necessary Hunger.
33. Malinda Lo, Ash.
34. Shamim Sarif, I Can’t Think Straight.
35. Sara Farizan, If You Could Be Mine.

Poetry/Memoir

36. Pat Parker, Movement in Black: The Collected Poetry of Pat Parker
37. Dionne Brand, No Language is Neutral.
38. Chrystos, Not Vanishing.
39. Alexis De Veaux, Yabo.
40. Cheryl Clarke, The Days of Good Looks: The Prose & Poetry of Cheryl Clarke
41. Connie Fife, Poems for a New World.
42. Chea Villanueva, Bulletproof Bitches.
43. Staceyann Chin, The Other Side of Paradise.
44. Cherrie Moraga, Loving in the War Years.
45. Beth Brant, Mohawk Trail.  
46. Michelle Cliff, If I Could Write This in Fire.
47. Jeanne Córdova, When We Were Outlaws.
48. Kitty Tsui, The Words of a Woman Who Breathes Fire.
49. Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza.
50. Audre Lorde, Zami.

*if anyone is misidentified, please tell me and i’ll amend the list.

**always here for more suggestions including books by non-binary poc!

***ann-marie macdonald is half scottish-half lebanese.

YAY!

Read widely !!!