Category: Award Winner

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner

Paris Was a Woman by Andrea Weiss

Andrea Weiss | Paris Was a Woman | A rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the century, this ‘scrapbook’ of their work–along with Weiss’s lively commentary–highl

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Licking Our Wounds by Elise D’Haene

Elise D’Haene | Licking Our Wounds | A fresh, engagingly sarcastic and determinedly bawdy voice goes a long way toward giving dimensionality to a tale about recovering from lost love. Aft

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller

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

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Three Lives (Kessinger) by Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein | Three Lives (Kessinger) | Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounde

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Sister Gin by June Arnold

June Arnold | Sister Gin | Aging, lesbian consciousness, the difficulty of escaping from alcoholism — these are the themes of June Arnold’s extraordinary novel, first published

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 Fiction

Give Me A Reason by Lyn Gardner

Lyn Gardner | Give Me A Reason | Intelligent, confident and beautiful, Antoinette Vaughn had it all until one night she went to help a friend and paid for it…with a life sentence in

Posted in Award Winner Historical Romance

Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller

Isabel Miller | Patience & 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

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Sports

Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw

Carol Anshaw | Aquamarine | Olympic swimmer Jesse Austin is seduced and consequently edged out for a gold medal by her Australian rival. From there, Anshaw intricately traces thr

Posted in Award Winner Romance

Welcome Home by Glenda Poulter

Glenda Poulter | Welcome Home | Shelby Livingston left home thirty years ago, vowing never to permanently return. But she’s tired of her itinerant lifestyle as a photojournalist and