Category: Grier Rated

Peter DeVries | The Tents of Wickedness | After the wild adventures of Comfort Me with Apples, Chick Swallow has found domestic peace in Decency, Connecticut, accepting his fate as a middle-cl

Ruth Simpson | From the Closet to the Courts | Ruth Simpson’s pioneering work examines the intersections of lesbianism, feminism and other civil rights movements. From the Closet to the Courts chro

Sally Miller Gearhart | The Wanderground | The Wanderground is a speculative fiction novel by Sally Miller Gearhart, published in 1979 by Persephone Press. It is Gearhart’s first and most famou

Alan Marshall; Donald E Westlake | Sally | ‘The girl who was willing to try anything once. ‘Of course I like men,’ Sally said. ‘Why shouldn’t I?’ ‘Because men are animals,’ Marie said. ‘They do

Ann Bannon | Women in the Shadows | Cover copy reads: ‘Their dark and troubled loves could flourish only in secret.’

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A guarded look across the room. That was all sh

Don Holliday; David Case | The Lust Circuit | Her wanton body was bait on the Lust Circuit ~ front cover

Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall’s own life, it was banned outrig

Ann Bannon | Odd Girl Out | Beth was there when Laura arrived…

She was the brain, the sparkle, the gay rebel voice, and wonder of wonders, she choose Laura as her room

Valerie Taylor | The Girls in 3-B | ‘Men terrified her and for a good reason. When she finally fell in love it was with a woman.’

N. Martin Kramer | The Hearth and the Strangeness | An excellent novel of the fear of inherited insanity in a family. The youngest child, Aliciane, becomes a lesbian; this is one of the few realistic an