What to Read After The Persistent Desire
Readers who loved The Persistent Desire by Joan Nestle keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Persistent Desire 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 The Persistent Desire
Stone Butch Blues
Gender outlaw
S/He
Odd girls and twilight lovers
Butch Is a Noun
Valencia
Female Masculinity
Persistence
Aimée & Jaguar
Odd girl out
My Dangerous Desires
Loving in the war years
Boots of leather, slippers of gold
Baby Remember My Name
PoMoSEXUALS
Without a net
Public Sex
Trans liberation
Chloe Plus Olivia
Patience and Sarah
Beebo Brinker
The passion
Dykes to watch out for
The leather daddy and the femme