/lesgen/ Book Club
This is a list of our current & past readings. Please feel free to discuss any at any time, no matter how much time has passed. Post suggestions in the thread and discuss any other books you enjoy too. Click the title for a link to a free source, if available.
Current Lesbian Reads by /lesgen/ Posters
- Solo Dance by Li Kotomi
Ongoing Novels
- Of Human Bondage (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham VERY long read!!! This is only one of various upcoming suggested reads that you may drop in and out of at any time, at your own pace.
Lesbian/WLW Short Stories & Poetry
- Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall (pages 84-103)
- Songs to a Handsome Woman by Rita Mae Brown
Yuri/GL
Misc Lesbian Media
- The Lovers by Studio Heartbreak
Newly released dark fantasy GL short on YouTube. - The Lesbian S/M Safety Manual by Pat Califia
Published in 1988, this is a lesbian Sadism/Masochism manual given to new members of the Lesbian Sex Mafia, a BDSM org founded in 1981. - The Lesbian Pulp Fiction That Saved Lives by Natasha Frost
More Suggestions from /lesgen/
"W. Somerset Maugham was a prolific English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer renowned for his clear, unadorned prose style and shrewd observations of human nature.
Major Novels
Of Human Bondage (1915): A largely autobiographical masterpiece following the emotional and physical struggles of an orphaned clubfooted man named Philip Carey.
The Moon and Sixpence (1919): A novel inspired by the life of painter Paul Gauguin, detailing an ordinary stockbroker who abandons his family to pursue art in Tahiti.
Cakes and Ale (1930): A sharp, satirical comedy regarding literary circles and personal reputation in Victorian and Edwardian England.
The Painted Veil (1925): A dramatic story of an unfaithful wife accompanying her bacteriologist husband to a remote cholera-stricken village in China.
The Razor's Edge (1944): A philosophical novel following a traumatized World War I veteran's spiritual quest for meaning across Europe and India."