Category: Award Winner

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Posted in Award Winner Canadian Eh History

Awfully Devoted Women by Cameron Duder

Cameron Duder | Awfully Devoted Women | The lives of lesbians before 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have turned the spotlight on upper-middle-class ‘romantic friends’ and on work