Category: Award Winner

Posted in Award Winner Speculative Fiction

The Female Man by Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ | The Female Man | The Female Man is a classic feminist science fiction novel by American writer Joanna Russ, published in 1975. Four women, Joanna, Jeannine, Janet and

Posted in Award Winner Mystery Romance

Snow Moon Rising by Lori L. Lake

Lori L. Lake | Snow Moon Rising | Mischka Gallo, a proud Roma woman, knows horses, dancing, and travel. Every day since her birth, she and her extended family have been on the road in

Posted in Award Winner History

A Queer History Of The United States by Michael Bronski

Michael Bronski | A Queer History Of The United States | ‘A Queer History of the United States is groundbreaking and accessible. It looks at how American culture has shaped the LGBT, or queer, experience, wh

Posted in Autobiographical Fiction Award Winner

Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles

Jane Bowles | Two Serious Ladies | Written with biting wit and cool compassion, Two Serious Ladies is a bittersweet celebration of female freedom that has been hailed as a landmark in t

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller

Isabel Miller | Patience and Sarah | ‘A sensitive, candid novel of two who chose another way…’It may be that one must be a male, or owned by one, not to be their natural victim…It may

Posted in Award Winner Poetry

Sea And Fog by Etel Adnan

Etel Adnan | Sea And Fog | These interrelated meditations explore the nature of the individual spirit and the individual spiritedness of the natural world. As skilled a philosop

Posted in Award Winner History

Odd Girls And Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman

Lillian Faderman | Odd Girls And Twilight Lovers | From Library Journal

Faderman charts the evolution of the concept of the ‘lesbian’ as a 20th-century social construct and shows how love between w

Posted in Award Winner Speculative Fiction

The Female Man by Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ | The Female Man | The Female Man is a classic feminist science fiction novel by American writer Joanna Russ, published in 1975. Four women, Joanna, Jeannine, Janet and

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner Grier Rated

La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc

Violette Leduc | La Bâtarde | An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Batarde

Posted in Award Winner YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Here Today by Ann M. Martin

Ann M. Martin | Here Today |

‘In 1963, Ellie’s mother, Doris Day Dingman, was crowned the Bosetti Beauty at Mr. Bosetti’s supermarket, President John F. Kennedy was assassina