Category: Award Winner

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Crybaby Butch by Judith Frank

Judith Frank | Crybaby Butch | Drawing on her experience as an adult literacy tutor, Judith Frank’s first novel traces the difficult and sometimes hilarious connection between two b

Posted in Award Winner YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Rage by Julie Anne Peters

Julie Anne Peters | Rage | A National Book Award Finalist offers an intense portrait of an abusive relationship.Johanna is steadfast, patient, reliable; the go-to girl, the one

Posted in Award Winner Checklist by Marion Zimmer Bradley Fiction Grier Rated Pulp

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall’s own life, it was banned outrig

Posted in Award Winner YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Luna by Julie Anne Peters

Julie Anne Peters | Luna | Regan’s brother Liam can’t stand the person he is during the day. Like the moon from whom Liam has chosen his female namesake, his true self, Luna, on

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Three Lives: Stories Of The Good Anna, Melanctha And The Gentle Lena (Dodo Press) by Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein | Three Lives: Stories Of The Good Anna, Melanctha And The Gentle Lena (Dodo Press) | Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounde

Posted in Award Winner Black Interest YA Fiction (Young Adult)

From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson | From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun |

Melanin Sun’s mother has some big news: she’s in love with a woman. Now he has many decisions to make: Should he stand by his mother even though

Posted in Award Winner Performing Arts

The Second Coming Of Joan Of Arc And Selected Plays by Carolyn Gage

Carolyn Gage | The Second Coming Of Joan Of Arc And Selected Plays | Gage’s award-winning collection of plays, including The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman, The Parmachene Belle, Coo

Posted in Award Winner YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Silhouette Of A Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin

Molly Beth Griffin | Silhouette Of A Sparrow | In the summer of 1926, sixteen-year-old Garnet Richardson is sent to a lake resort to escape the polio epidemic in the city. She dreams of indulging i

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Sports

Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw

Carol Anshaw | Aquamarine | Explores three hypothetical schemas that could have been the life of swimmer Jesse Austin if she had made different choices and had not been haunted b

Posted in Award Winner Pulp

The Mesh by Lucie Marchal

Lucie Marchal | The Mesh | ”I hated her when I first saw her. She was so passive, so voluptuous, so unlike me. Then something changed me. Alone with her I was filled with a joy