Category: Fiction

Han Suyin | Winter Love | Winter Love is a study of Lesbianism, compassionate but nonetheless clinical in its dissection. For the most part the story is viewed through the eyes

Ellen Galford | Dyke and the Dybbuk | Winner of the 1994 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian and Gay Humor; finalist for the 1995 American Library Association Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual

Stephanie Grant | The Passion of Alice | It’s 1984 and Alice Forrester is a 25-year-old anorexic who has just experienced heart failure when she is admitted into a hospital renowned for its e

Marion Douglas | Magic Eight Ball | At age 11, Julia Raine and her best friend, Lois Wilde, use a ‘magic eight ball’ to channel the imaginary voice of Mrs. McCracken, a doll who gives ad

Michele Roberts | The Visitation | Helen is in conflict with her suburban upbringing, her independence, her creativity, and generations of silence surrounding notions of gender and sexu

Fannie Flagg | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe | Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-h

Shirley Jackson | Hangsaman | Shirley Jackson’s chilling second novel, based on her own experiences and an actual mysterious disappearance

Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite

Jane Rule | Contract with the World | Six characters use Art to try and make sense of their lives and establish a relationship with the outside world. For some there is success, for other

Colette | Claudine and Annie | In this final novel in Colette’s famous series it is Claudine’s friend Annie who tells the story in the form of a private diary.

Claudine is

John Roc | Winter Blood | Two landlords – a black man and a white man – set out to evict the tenants from a run-down building in Harlem. But unexpectedly, the partners are draw