Category: Award Winner

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

Posted in Award Winner Black Interest Poetry

Rock | Salt | Stone by Rosamond s. King

Rosamond s. King | Rock | Salt | Stone | Rock | Salt | Stone sprays life-preserving salt through the hard realities of rocks, stones, and rockstones used as anchors, game pieces, or weapons.

Posted in Award Winner Historical Fiction

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters | Fingersmith | ‘We were all more or less thieves at Lant Street. But we were that kind of thief that rather eased the dodgy deed along, than did it … We could pass a

Posted in Award Winner Grier Rated Poetry

Wonders by Karen Snow

Karen Snow | Wonders | This collection of 14 long, harrowing, extremely skillful poems, winner of the 1978 Walt Whitman Award for best first book, jells chiefly because the

Posted in Award Winner Canadian Eh YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard

M-E Girard | Girl Mans Up | Lambda Literary Award Winner * Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2016 * Children’s Book Council Books Best Book of 2016 * Kirkus Reviews Best Teen