Classic Fiction and Drama
- The Bachelor Girl – Victor Margueritte – (1922)
- God of Vengeance (play) - Sholem Asch (1923) - Girl has lesbian relationship with a prostitute
- The Captive (play)– Edouard Bourdet - (1926) - Tragedy of a young woman, who falls into a twisted relationship with another woman
- The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall – (1928) – subject of an obscenity trial that banished the book in the United Kingdom until 1949, though "there are no descriptions of sex in it, no rude words, and the lesbian lovers do not live happily ever after."
- Ladies Almanack – Djuna Barnes – (1928)
- Orlando: A Biography – Virginia Woolf – (1928)
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein – (1933) – one of Stein's more accessible works. Others, whose lesbian content may not be apparent to the uninformed reader, include As a Wife Has a Cow: A Love Story, Lifting Belly, and Miss Furr and Miss Skeene.
- The Children's Hour (play) – Lillian Hellman – (1934)
- Nightwood – Djuna Barnes – (1936)
- Torchlight to Valhalla – Gale Wilhelm – (1938)
- No Exit - Jean Paul Sartre - (1944) - Inès Serrano Lesbian sent to hell for murder
- Spring Fire – Marijane Meaker (as Vin Packer) (1952)
- Le Rempart des Béguines – Françoise Mallet-Joris (1952) – Helene, a 15 year old schoolgirl, is seduced by her father's mistress, Tamara.
- The Price of Salt – Patricia Highsmith (as Clare Morgan) – (1952)
- Chocolates for Breakfast – Pamela Moore (1956)– portrays the bond between the protagonist Courtney Farrell and her boarding school teacher Miss Rosen, and the backlash against them from other teachers and students.
- Odd Girl Out, I Am a Woman, Women in the Shadows, Journey to a Woman, and Beebo Brinker a.k.a. the "Beebo Brinker Chronicles" – Ann Bannon (1957–1962)
- The Group – Mary McCarthy (1962)
- The Killing of Sister George – Frank Marcus – (1963)
- Desert of the Heart – Jane Rule – (1964) (basis for the 1985 film Desert Hearts)
- Patience and Sarah – Isabel Miller (1969)
- A Compass Error – Sybille Bedford (1968)
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