Category: Award Winner

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Burning Ground by Pearl Luke

Pearl Luke | Burning Ground | Working in a fire tower in the Canadian woods, Percy Turner’s emotional state is hanging on by a thread. Fires smolder within her–the lifelong passio

Posted in Award Winner Romance

Making A Comeback by Julie Blair

Julie Blair | Making A Comeback | Jazz pianist Liz Randall is reeling from her wife’s death and struggling to keep their band together. An invitation to play at the prestigious Montere

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Other Women by Lisa Alther

Lisa Alther | Other Women | With two young sons, a failed marriage, a job as an emergency room nurse that leaves her feeling paralyzed and hopeless, and a relationship with a wom

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 Mystery

Whacked by Josie Gordon

Josie Gordon | Whacked | There are things they don’t tell you in seminary school. Lonnie Squires is certain that if she’d been warned that her calling could lead to death by c

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Historical

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters | Fingersmith | Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a ‘baby farmer,’ who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her o

Posted in Award Winner Romance Suspense

The Price of Fame by Lynn Ames

Lynn Ames | The Price of Fame | When local television news anchor Katherine Kyle is thrust into the national spotlight, it sets in motion a chain of events that will change her life

Posted in Award Winner Erotica

Breathless by Kitty Tsui

Kitty Tsui | Breathless | How to describe writing about sex? ‘Pornography’ seems old fashioned, male-oriented; and ‘erotica,’ while kinder and gentler, feels like a marketing t

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

Rusty by Garbo

Garbo | Rusty | Carol Frehardt and her best friend Monica ‘Rusty’ Stone, decide to escape their jobs at Redskin Broom Company and move to Colorado. On their way, they