Category: Fiction

Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene | For Sizakele | Taylor, a queer Nigerian college student, is in a passionate relationship with Lee, a black American basketball-playing pianist. When Taylor develops

Struthers Burt | Entertaining The Islanders | Sophisticated, satirical, novel in which a man becomes aware that his ex-sweetheart has been captivated by another woman

Ntozake Shange | Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo | Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo is the story of three ‘colored girls,’ three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina: Sassafrass, the ol

Vance Bourjaily | The End Of My Life | When Thomas “Skinner” Galt leaves Greenwich Village to volunteer as an ambulance driver with the British Army, he anticipates the adventure of a lifet

Arnold Bennett | The Pretty Lady | ‘The Pretty Lady’ is considered to be one of Bennett’s most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christine, who ha

Jay Richard Kennedy | Short Term | Very minor lesbian content (Laurie’s sister thought she was a lesbian).

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Honore de Balzac | The Girl With The Golden Eyes | Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form be

May Sarton | Journal Of A Solitude | In this, her bestselling journal, May Sarton writes with keen observation and emotional courage of both inner and outer worlds: a garden, the seasons,

Ariel Gore | We Were Witches | Spurred on by nineties “family values” campaigns and determined to better herself through education, a teen mom talks her way into college. Disgusted

Angela Du Maurier | The Little Less | A story of a woman whose emotional life never quite comes to fruition, first because her passion in early maturity is centered on a woman, beautiful,