Jackie Kay | Trumpet | Jackie Kay’s mesmerizing and powerfully moving first novel is about the extraordinary life and seeming dissolution of a family — about the boundaries
Jacqueline Woodson | Autobiography of a Family Photo | In her first adult novel, Woodson–already acclaimed in both the African-American and lesbian and gay worlds for her award-winning short fiction–pain
Shay Youngblood | Soul Kiss | Soul Kiss, an eloquent first novel from well-known African-American playwright Shay Youngblood, opens as seven-year-old Mariah Kim Santos is un
Claire Morgan | The Price of Salt | The Price of Salt has grown in popularity and in importance, and is now recognized as an American masterwork. Highsmith has given us the enthralling
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
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
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
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
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
