Category: Fiction

Isabel Miller | Patience and 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

Red Jordan Arobateau | Lay Lady Lay | love story of 2 white working class dikes in foggy san francisco and mendicino county.

Reprinted from archives, a little known work by Red Jo

Cathie Dunsford | Manawa Toa: Heart Warrior | Cowrie boards a ship bound for Moruroa Atoll during the French nuclear tests. She is in for a rough ride. As international attention is focused on the

Michelle Tea | Valencia | You don’t have to be part of the emerging postpunk subculture of queer urban girls to relish this smooth ride of a novel, like Kathy Acker on Prozac o

Jane Rule | This Is Not For You | This Is Not For You, perhaps Rule’s most self-consciously literary and philosophical novel, tells the story of a young woman in the late 1950s and ear

Natalia Zabaneh | Backlash | ‘It is growing dark, night is approaching and I am alone.’

Margaret Dean is attractive, middle-aged and a lesbian. A schoolteacher, she has suppr

Brigid Brophy | The King Of A Rainy Country | In this captivating novel the stylish Brigid Brophy portrays the impoverished bohemianism of young Londoners during the post-war years. Susan, working

Nancy Werking Poling | Out of the Pumpkin Shell | The teaching careers of lifelong friends Harriet (Hat) and Elise have come to an end in spectacular style, with the two women leaving more than burnin

David Leavitt | A Place I’ve Never Been | From Publishers Weekly

Conventional American tourists observe uninhibited families in Italy; a woman learns independence when the gay man who is t

Linnea A. Due | Give Me Time | Novel with radical and lesbian themes, with particular focus on the Bay Area and the dramatic events of the 1970s – the SLA, the city hall murders and