Posted in Mystery

Death Down Under by Claire McNab

Claire McNab | Death Down Under | Four women are dead, each strangled with an orange cord, their bodies ritually arranged. Detective Inspector Carol Ashton and Detective Sergeant Mark

Posted in Checklist by Marion Zimmer Bradley Fiction Gay Pulp Fiction

The End Of My Life by Vance Bourjaily

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

Posted in Black Interest Speculative Fiction

Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden

Nicky Drayden | Escaping Exodus | Don’t be alarmed – that dizzy pleasurable sensation you’re experiencing is just your brain slowly exploding from all the wild magnificent worldbuildin

Posted in Black Interest Fiction

The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

Gloria Naylor | The Women of Brewster Place | The National Book Award-winning novel–and contemporary classic–that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor

“[A] shrewd and lyrical

Posted in Black Interest Fiction Native/Indigenous Interest

The Cherokee Rose by Tiya Miles

Tiya Miles | The Cherokee Rose | Three young women are drawn to the Chief Vann House Historic Site in Chatsworth, Georgia, where scenes of extreme cruelty and equally extraordinary co

Posted in Award Winner YA Fiction (Young Adult)

If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

Sara Farizan | If You Could Be Mine | In Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death, seventeen-year-olds Sahar and Nasrin love each other in secret until Nasrin’s parents announce th

Posted in Fiction

Despised And Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy

A.T. Fitzroy | Despised And Rejected | In July 1914 a family gathers at a holiday hotel in Devon. There is a dominant father and a socially ambitious mother who adores her son Dennis. When

Posted in Religion & Spirituality

Refocusing My Family by Amber Cantorna

Amber Cantorna | Refocusing My Family | In 2012, at the age of twenty-seven, Amber Cantorna came out to her family as gay. As the daughter of a Focus on the Family executive, that transparen

Posted in Checklist by Marion Zimmer Bradley Historical Fiction

Poor White by Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson | Poor White | Nothing quite like it has ever been done in America. . . . It is so vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly life-like and glowing, that the book is li

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Graphic Novel Memoir

Calling Dr. Laura: a Graphic Memoir by Nicole J. Georges

Nicole J. Georges | Calling Dr. Laura: a Graphic Memoir | Nationally, Portland, Oregon is known for being a rainy green city of bicyclists, 20-something hipsters, and enough log-jammed trends from the ninetie