Category: Award Winner

Patricia Roth Schwartz | The Names of the Moons of Mars | Poignant stories about our lives as women and as lesbians. Winner of 1990 Lambda Literary Award.

Martin Duberman; Martha Vicinus; George Chauncey | Hidden From History | Without peer, Hidden from History gathers together the works of the most exciting scholars in the dynamic field of homosexual studies, making this a g

Sharon Marcus | Between Women | Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other’s hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that

Elise D’Haene | Licking Our Wounds | Timothy Leary extolled this first novel as ‘poignant and hilarious . . . rowdy sexual expression rarely seen in literary works by women.’ Maria finds

Peter Prince | Play Things | Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award

‘An agreeably readable first novel . . . light-hearted throughout, and altogether the book is a promisin

Isabel Miller | Patience and Sarah |

Winner of the 1971 American Library Assoc.’s first Gay Book Award, later called Stonewall Book Award

Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel M

Radclyffe Hall | The Unlit Lamp | The Unlit Lamp, is the story of Joan Ogden, a young girl who dreams of setting up a flat in London with her friend Elizabeth (a so-called Boston marri

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

Jane Miller | A Palace of Pearls | Miller is a bold poet working from the ‘pure energy of language, without apology.’–The Boston Book Review

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“Book by book, Jane Miller

Nicola Griffith | The Blue Place | Science fiction writer Nicola Griffith, winner of the Nebula and Tiptree Awards, proves that good writing transcends genre. The Blue Place is a