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− | ''This list is for reading material that is nontechnical and directed to a general audience. For scientific papers, see [[Research Relating to Asexuality]].
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− | ==Reference==
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− | * Anthony F. Bogaert - '''Understanding Asexuality'''
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− | ==Featuring asexual or suspected-asexual characters==
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− | ===Non-fiction===
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− | * Donna Williams - '''Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism'''
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− | : The biography of a successful autistic woman, describing her asexuality towards the end.
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− | ===Novels===
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− | * Kate Atkinson - '''Case Histories: A Novel''' (Amelia, Philip)
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− | * Pearl S. Buck - '''The Pavilion of Women''' (Madam Wu)
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− | * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - '''Sherlock Holmes Mysteries''' (Sherlock Holmes)
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− | * Kathrine Dunn - '''Geek Love''' (Miss Lick)
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− | * Henry Fielding - '''Tom Jones''' (Blifil)
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− | * Emma Forest - '''Namedropper: A Novel''' (Viva Cohen?)
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− | * E.M. Forster - '''A Room With a View''' (Mr. Beebe and Cecil Vyse)
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− | * Thomas Hardy - '''Jude The Obscure''' (Sue Bridehead)
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− | * Keri Hulme - '''The Bone People''' (Kerewin Holmes)
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− | * John Irving - '''The World According to Garp''' (Jenny Fields)
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− | * Susan Isaacs - '''Lily White''' (sexual main characters lead asexual relationship)
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− | * Caren Lissner - '''Carrie Pilby''' (Carrie Pilby)
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− | * Caren Lissner et al. - '''Scenes From A Holiday''' (Carrie Pilby, see novella titled "Carrie Pilby's New Year's Resolution")
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− | * Tim O'Brien - '''July, July''' (Marla Dempsey)
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− | * George Orwell - '''A Clergyman's Daughter''' (Dorothy Hare)
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− | * Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman - '''Herland''' (the women)
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− | * Fernando Pessoa - '''The Book of Disquiet''' (Bernardo Soares)
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− | * Barbara Pym - '''Crampton Hodnet''' (Barbara Bird)
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− | * Bill Richardson - '''The Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast''' (Virgil)
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− | * Willy Russell - '''The Wrong Boy''' (Raymond Marks)
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− | * Michael Bilka - '''Operation Hurdler''', and '''Operation Outside Hitter''' (Faye and Linda Cooper)
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− | * Virginia Woolf - '''To The Lighthouse''' (Lily Briscoe) (described as asexual by Market Drabble in the introduction to the Oxford University Press edition and also [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59716.To_the_Lighthouse here])
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− | * Banana Yoshimoto - '''The Lake''' (Nakajima; asexual relationship)
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− | ===Science fiction and fantasy===
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− | * Brian W. Aldiss - '''White Mars''' (Cang Hai)
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− | * Isaac Asimov - '''I, Robot''' (Dr. Susan Calvin)
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− | * Greg Egan - '''Diaspora'''
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− | * Greg Egan - '''Distress'''
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− | * Robin Hobb - '''Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate''' (Amber/Lord Golden)
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− | * Tanya Huff - '''The Fire's Stone''' (Chandra)
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− | * Alexandro Jodorowsky - '''The Metabarons: Aghora the Father-Mother & Immaculate Conception''' (Aghora)
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− | * Mercedes Lackey - '''The Oathbound''' (Tarma)
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− | * Mercedes Lackey - '''Oathbreakers''' (Tarma)
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− | * Mercedes Lackey - '''Oathblood''' (Tarma)
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− | * Patricia A. McKillip - Ombria in Shadow (Mag the Waxling)
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− | * Elizabeth Moon - '''The Deed of Paksenarrion: A Novel''' (Paks)
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− | * Caroline Stevermer - '''When the King Comes Home''' (Hail Rosamer)
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− | * Kurt Vonnegut - '''Cat's Cradle''' (Mona Aamons Monzano)
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− | * Kurt Vonnegut - '''Deadeye Dick''' (Rudy Waltz)
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− | * Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman - '''Rose of the Prophet Trilogy: The Will of the Wanderer, The Paladin of the Night, The Prophet of Akhran''' (Azriel)
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− | ===Short Stories===
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− | * Samuel R. Delaney - '''Aye, and Gomorrah'''
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− | * Theodore Sturgeon - '''The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff'''
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− | ==About celibacy and other asexual-friendly subjects==
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− | * Elizabeth Abbott - '''A History of Celibacy: From Athena to Elizabeth I, Leonardo Da Vinci, Florence Nightingale, Gandhi and Cher'''
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− | : Although asexuality is not mentioned outright, asexuals may find the descriptions of diverse nonsexual lifestyles enlightening, and some celibate historical figures mentioned may have been asexual.
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− | * Lillian Faderman - '''Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present'''
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− | : Focuses on romantic, non-sexual relationships between women.
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− | * Geraldine Levi Rich Jones - '''L'amour sans le faire : Comment vivre sans libido dans un monde où le sexe est partout?'''
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− | : A book about [[nonlibidoism]] by the founder of the Official Nonlibidoism Society.
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− | * Esther D. Rothblum & Kathleen A. Brehony - '''Boston Marriages: Romantic But Asexual Relationships Among Contemporary Lesbians'''
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− | : A book discussing sexless romances between women and their implications on the theory of female sexuality and relationships in general.
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