The Well of Loneliness, first published in 1928, is a timeless portrayal of lesbian love. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall (published in 1928) Since there were so many deserving books that played an important role in the history of sapphic literature, I listed 20 books instead of just 15. Here are my recommendations for the sapphic classics category, sorted by year of publication. If you’d like to get more book suggestions, talk about the books you are reading, and chat with other readers participating in the Sapphic Book Bingo, join either my Facebook group for readers or the Goodreads group for the Sapphic Book Bingo. Make the Sapphic Book Bingo more interesting!

If you have only just discovered the Sapphic Book Bingo, you can still join us! Read up on the rules, download your book bingo card, and take a look at my suggestions for the “sapphic classics” square below. How to get started if you are new to Sapphic Book Bingo Today, we are lucky to live in a time when more sapphic books are published every year than most of us can read, across all subgenres, and we owe it all to these amazing authors who blazed the trail for us!įor the sake of this reading challenge, I would considered any sapphic book that was first published (or first written) before the year 2000 a “sapphic classic.” For this week’s Sapphic Book Bingo category, read a book that is considered a classic sapphic book-one of the trailblazing books published in the 20 th century or before, at a time when most mainstream publishers wouldn’t publish LGBT+ literature and sapphic characters often didn’t get a happy ending.

Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller