Category: Award Winner

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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

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

If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

Sara Farizan | If You Could Be Mine | Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children’s/Young Adult

One of Rolling Stone’s 40 Best YA Novels

A 2014 ALA Rainbow List Top 10 Ti

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

The Butches of Madison County by Ellen Orleans

Ellen Orleans | The Butches of Madison County | Can 50-something, quasi-yuppie Billie Bold find true happiness with an semi-straight Iowa farmwife Pasty Plain? You bet, when you’re reading an out-an

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown | Rubyfruit Jungle | Rubyfruit Jungle is the first milestone novel in the extraordinary career of one of this country’s most distinctive writers. Bawdy and moving,

Posted in Award Winner History

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Madeline D. Davis; Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy

Madeline D. Davis; Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy | Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold | Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold traces the evolution of the lesbian community in Buffalo, New York from the mid-1930s up to the early 1960s. Drawin

Posted in Award Winner Mystery Suspense

Butcher Of Dreams by Kay Williams; Eileen Wyman

Kay Williams; Eileen Wyman | Butcher Of Dreams | Set in the seedy mid-80s New York City neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen–where drugs and prostitution run rampant–Lee Fairchild’s repertory theater is

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Short Story Collection (Single Author)

Eye of a Hurricane by Ruthann Robson

Ruthann Robson | Eye of a Hurricane | From Publishers Weekly

The self-conscious, egregiously mannered prose of this short-story debut obscures the author’s message and weakens her auth

Posted in Award Winner Poetry

Sweet To Burn by Beverly Burch

Beverly Burch | Sweet To Burn | 2004 Lammy Award for Poetry & 2004 Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award ‘Novelistic in scope, but packing the emotional intensity of lyric poetry.’-

Posted in Award Winner YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Between Mom and Jo by Julie Anne Peters

Julie Anne Peters | Between Mom and Jo | Nick has a three-legged dog named Lucky, some pet fish, and two moms who think he’s the greatest kid ever. And he happens to think he has the greatest

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