Category: Award Winner

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Olivia by Olivia

Olivia | Olivia | When Olivia turns sixteen she is sent to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her education. Soon after her arrival, she finds herself falling under

Posted in Award Winner Non-Fiction

Another Country by Scott Herring

Scott Herring | Another Country | The metropolis has been the near exclusive focus of queer scholars and queer cultures in America. Asking us to look beyond the cities on the coasts, S

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner True Crime

The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich | The Fact of a Body | Bustle’s 20 Best Non-Fiction Books for MayEntertainment Weekly Books You Have to Read in MayReal Simple’s Best New Books to Read in May “A True Crime

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Three Lives (Pocket Books) by Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein | Three Lives (Pocket Books) | 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 Autobiography/Biography Award Winner

The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar

Joan Schenkar | The Talented Miss Highsmith | Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling  as that of her favorite ‘hero-criminal

Posted in Award Winner YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Like Water by Rebecca Podos

Rebecca Podos | Like Water | A gorgeously written and deeply felt literary young adult novel of identity, millennial anxiety, and first love, from the widely acclaimed author of T

Posted in Award Winner Poetry

Fox: Poems 1998-2000 by Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich | Fox: Poems 1998-2000 | In this volume, Adrienne Rich pursues her signature themes and takes them further: the discourse between poetry and history, interlocutions within and

Posted in Award Winner Coming Out Fiction

The Four Winds by Gerd Brantenberg

Gerd Brantenberg | The Four Winds | A novel by a well-known Norwegian feminist writer about a young woman who, after a variety of experiences with family, friends, and lovers, gradually

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 Fiction Short Story Collection (Single Author)

All the Pretty Girls by Chandra Mayor

Chandra Mayor | All the Pretty Girls | In each of these short stories, set against a finely-crafted backdrop of poverty and violence, abuse and hope, Chandra Mayor provides a glimpse into t