Jeanette Winterson | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit was published in 1985 and subsequently adapted into a BBC television drama of the same name. It is a coming-of-age stor
Pat Rosier | Poppy’s Progress |
Blanche McCrary Boyd | Terminal Velocity | ‘In 1970 I realized that the Sixties were passing me by. I had never even smoked a joint, or slept with anyone besides my husband. A year later I had
Linda Kay Silva | Tory’s Tuesday | A unique historical novel about a lesbian couple fighting to survive Auschwitz.
Linsey Abrams | Charting By The Stars | Ms. Magazine called Charting by the Stars ‘. a memorable account of growing up . about the ways we invent and reinvent ourselves . remin
Mary Jane | Keep Austin Weird | Residents of Austin, Texas so value individualism, most (but not all!) of them rally around the phrase, ‘Keep Austin Weird.’ In the midst of that off-
Michele Roberts | A Piece of the Night | Julie Fanchot, French born, English convent-school educated, learns to please. The seductive daughter, Virgin Mary, romantic heroine, perfect wife and
Helen Humphreys | Leaving Earth | On August 1, 1933, two young women, the famous aviatrix Grace O’Gorman and the inexperienced Willa Briggs, take off in a tiny Moth biplane to break th
Bett Williams | Girl Walking Backwards | Although the protagonist of Girl Walking Backwards is a young, more-or-less ‘out’ lesbian, this not a lesbian novel so much as a classic, post-
Jackie Kay | Trumpet | Jackie Kay’s mesmerizing and powerfully moving first novel is about the extraordinary life and seeming dissolution of a family — about the boundaries