What to Read After Surpassing the love of men
Readers who loved Surpassing the love of men by Lillian Faderman keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Surpassing the love of men is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Surpassing the love of men
Patience and Sarah
A Restricted Country
Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence
Between Women
Women's barracks
Hidden from History
Immodest Acts
Inseparable
Dykes to watch out for
Love Stories
Homosexuality and Civilization
How Sex Changed
Odd girl out
The female malady
Strangers
The invention of heterosexuality
Boots of leather, slippers of gold
Sapphistries
Intimate matters
Coming Out Under Fire
Olivia
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
Odd girls and twilight lovers
The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolfe