Category: Award Winner

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

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

Posted in Award Winner Romance

The Price of Salt by Claire Morgan

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

Posted in Award Winner Movie/Media Tie-In Pulp

Thérèse and Isabelle by Violette Leduc

Violette Leduc | Thérèse and Isabelle | Therese is sent to an all-girl school when her mother marries a man who dislikes children. She meets Isabelle (Anna Gael) and the two become fast frie

Posted in Award Winner Pulp

Olivia by Olivia

Olivia | Olivia |

Considered one of the most subtle and beautifully written lesbian novels of the century, this 1949 classic returns to print in a Cleis Press edit

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 Romance

The Price of Salt by Claire Morgan

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