Tag: Great

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

The Unlit Lamp by Radclyffe Hall

Radclyffe Hall | The Unlit Lamp | The Unlit Lamp, is the story of Joan Ogden, a young girl who dreams of setting up a flat in London with her friend Elizabeth (a so-called Boston marri

Posted in Grier Rated Music

Adventures in Women’s Music by Alix Dobkin

Alix Dobkin | Adventures in Women’s Music | Written by a major pioneering figure in the women’s music movement. Dobkin performed with Kay Gardner and other women in the early 1970s before she re

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

The World We Found by Thrity N. Umrigar

Thrity N. Umrigar | The World We Found | As university students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta were inseparable. Spirited and unconventional, they challenged authori

Posted in Pulp

Women’s Barracks by Tereska Torres

Tereska Torres | Women’s Barracks |

Originally published in 1950, this account of life among female Free French soldiers in a London barracks during World War II sold four million cop

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner Black Interest

Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around by Alethia Jones; Virginia Eubanks; Barbara Smith

Alethia Jones; Virginia Eubanks; Barbara Smith | Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around | 2015 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, presented by the Publishing Triangle

2015 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir/Biography, pr

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 Fiction

Never Dies The Dream by Margaret Landon

Margaret Landon | Never Dies The Dream | ‘An unmarried woman missionary in Siam incurs criticism and suspicion when she shows marked favor to an unfortunate American girl at the mercy of the

Posted in Award Winner Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality

Ferocious Romance by Donna Minkowitz

Donna Minkowitz | Ferocious Romance | Intrepid Village Voice reporter Donna Minkowitz thought she knew what she was getting into when she set out to go undercover among the religious right

Posted in Health LGBT Studies/Social Sciences Non-Fiction Sexuality

The Transsexual Phenomenon by Harry Benjamin

Harry Benjamin | The Transsexual Phenomenon | The Transsexual Phenomenon ‘drew on [the author’s] work with clients who had a variety of “sexual disorders.” He argued that transsexuals were a group

Posted in Grier Rated Romance

The Island by Naomi Royde-Smith

Naomi Royde-Smith | The Island | The novel is subtitled A Love Story, and its protagonist is the orphaned Myfanwy Hughes, known as Goosey. Living with her aunt and uncle on a farm in