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Posted in Award Winner History

Odd Girls And Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman

Lillian Faderman | Odd Girls And Twilight Lovers | Lillian Faderman tells the compelling story of lesbian life in the 20th century, from the early 1900s to today’s diverse lifestyles. Using journals, u

Posted in Award Winner Biographical Fiction Black Interest

Zami by Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde | Zami | Zami is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lord

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Jewish Interests

Wasteland by Jo Sinclair; Vivian Gornick

Jo Sinclair; Vivian Gornick | Wasteland | Wasteland is a story of Jacob Braunowitz, a young Jewish man who, tortured by self-doubts and nightmare fears, turns his back on his heritage, his hom

Posted in Fiction Grier Rated

The Straggler by Agnete Holk

Agnete Holk | The Straggler | In lieu of a plot, here is an excerpt:

”The people there, the women that is, mainly regard themselves as couples. In order not to draw too m

Posted in Award Winner Grier Rated Romance

The Friendly Young Ladies by Mary Renault

Mary Renault | The Friendly Young Ladies | Set in 1937, The Friendly Young Ladies is a romantic comedy of off-Bloomsbury bohemia. Sheltered, naïve, and just eighteen, Elsie leaves the st

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Grier Rated History

Dear Sammy by Gertrude Stein; Samuel M. Steward; Alice B. Toklas

Gertrude Stein; Samuel M. Steward; Alice B. Toklas | Dear Sammy | Letters to Steward from the famous expatriate pair, dating from the 1930s through 1966, reflect a true friendship among the correspondents, the striki

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Grier Rated Movie/Media Tie-In

Portrait Of A Marriage by Nigel Nicolson

Nigel Nicolson | Portrait Of A Marriage | Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-trave

Posted in Pulp

Jassy by Norah Lofts

Norah Lofts | Jassy | Jassy is about a very unusual girl who might have been born a witch. Its a real love story about how a neighbor saves her from wicked children who wan

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller

Isabel Miller | Patience and Sarah | In the early nineteenth century, in a puritanical New England town, two women fall in love. With no one to guide or support them, Patience and Sarah t

Posted in Award Winner YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Hachiko Waits by Lesléa Newman

Lesléa Newman | Hachiko Waits | The loyalty and devotion of a dog has no bounds as Newman’s novel is inspired by the true story of a faithful dog in Tokyo who met his master at the t