Category: Award Winner

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

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

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

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

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

Jane Rule | The Young in One Another’s Arms | Winner of the 1978 Best Novel of the Year Award from the Canadian Authors Association.

Melinda Clayton | Appalachian Justice | Billy May Platte is a half Irish, half Cherokee Appalachian woman who learned the hard way that 1940s West Virginia was no place to be different. As B

Jenifer Levin | Snow | nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award

Raina Scott, a daredevil adventuress, is ‘missing’ in the jungle of the American-controlled island of B

Jane Vollbrecht | Picture Perfect | Kate Bingham is living the life of a high-powered accountant in Atlanta while trying to mend a severely broken heart. When she travels to see Nora, an

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