Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/776275-veleda">Veleda</a> (21 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Veleda (21 Lists)

Reading the Bible Again for the First Time by Marcus J. Borg

Long March of the Koalas by Fred Clark

Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism by John Shelby Spong

If You Like Rob Bell

52 books — 12 voters

The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Graphic Novels & Comics By LGBTQ+ Authors

151 books — 41 voters

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Am I Blue? by Marion Dane Bauer

Stonewall Book Award Winners

112 books — 34 voters

This Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe L. Moraga

Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Backlash by Susan Faludi

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Best Feminist Books

2,812 books — 3,876 voters

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Best Lesbian Fiction

2,057 books — 2,681 voters

And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

Whipping Girl by Julia Serano

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Stonewall by Martin Duberman

This Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe L. Moraga

Best Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Non-Fiction

838 books — 493 voters

Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue

Lesbian Fairy Tales

102 books — 62 voters

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Marbles by Ellen Forney

Best bipolar/schizophrenia books

136 books — 159 voters

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Best Historical Fiction Books that Are Actually Historical Fiction

2,654 books — 3,200 voters

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

100 Best Lesbian Fiction & Memoir Books Of All Time

904 books — 1,194 voters

Girls to the Front by Sara Marcus

33 Revolutions Per Minute by Dorian Lynskey

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis

Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday

Best Non Fiction About Music

1,482 books — 1,397 voters

Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis

This Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe L. Moraga

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis

Black Feminist/Womanist Studies (nonfiction)

132 books — 111 voters

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century

1,134 books — 9,195 voters

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory

I Am Morgan le Fay by Nancy Springer

I Am Mordred by Nancy Springer

The Lost Years of Merlin by T.A. Barron

Best Arthurian Fiction

483 books — 1,450 voters

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

Babel-17/Empire Star by Samuel R. Delany

The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi

Speculative Fiction by Authors of Color

741 books — 481 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

The Big Con by David W. Maurer

The Man Who Sold The Eiffel Tower by James Johnson

Charlatan by Pope Brock

Con Men, Gamblers and Hustlers

329 books — 166 voters

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller

Historical Lesbian Fiction

261 books — 264 voters

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That A... by Eli Horowitz

Best Book Titles

12,174 books — 8,590 voters

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Best Horror Novels

2,121 books — 5,509 voters

The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan

Best Historical Fiction

7,911 books — 26,314 voters

The Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman

Journey Into Mystery by Kieron Gillen by Kieron Gillen

Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Best Graphic Novels

3,457 books — 6,778 voters