Gulf Dreams by Emma Perez
Emma Perez | Gulf Dreams | Gulf Dreams is the story of a Chicana who comes of age in a racist, rural Texas town. Through memory, the protagonist reexamines her unresolved obsess
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Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse | Steppenwolf | Contains highly sympathetic homosexual characters (male and female)
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With its generous helpings of sex and drugs, its darkly romantic urban
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie Macdonald
Ann-Marie Macdonald | Fall on Your Knees | Fall on Your Knees, award-winning actor and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald’s sprawling and powerful first novel, reads like a literary soap ope
Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac | Cousin Bette | Cousin Bette (1847) vividly brings to life the rift between the old world and the new and is, among other things, a serious study of the Paris demimon
The Rains Came by Louis Bromfield
Louis Bromfield | The Rains Came | In a long novel of India there is a brief but important episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an engaging old battleax, muses as she
The Small Room by May Sarton
May Sarton | The Small Room | This is a perceptive, deeply questioning novel of a New England college, its students and it’s faculty. It is a novel about women and the unique relat
Uncharted Seas by Eric Ward
Eric Ward | Uncharted Seas | An excellent, perceptive and controlled story of Diana Bellew, a young married woman with children, a childish husband and too much money and time on
Lonely Parade by Fannie Hurst
Fannie Hurst | Lonely Parade | Very minor mention of lesbians in a novel of lonely women at hotels.
Sistine Heresy by Justine Saracen
Justine Saracen | Sistine Heresy | Eros, art, and gorgeous blasphemy… Adrianna Borgia, survivor of the Borgia court, presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life wh
The Threshing Floor by Barbara Burford
Barbara Burford | The Threshing Floor | In the pioneering work, Towards a Black Feminist Criticism, Barbara Smith examines the realities of criticizing works that are both Black feminist and