Josie Gordon | Whacked | There are things they don’t tell you in seminary school. Lonnie Squires is certain that if she’d been warned that her calling could lead to death by c
Sarah Waters | Fingersmith | Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a ‘baby farmer,’ who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her o
Djuna Barnes | Ladies Almanack | Djuna Barnes must have had great fun writing and illustrating this book. It’s a lively lampoon of her lesbian chums of Left Bank Paris in the 1920s. T
Lynn Ames | The Price of Fame | When local television news anchor Katherine Kyle is thrust into the national spotlight, it sets in motion a chain of events that will change her life
Kitty Tsui | Breathless | How to describe writing about sex? ‘Pornography’ seems old fashioned, male-oriented; and ‘erotica,’ while kinder and gentler, feels like a marketing t
Julie Anne Peters | Luna | Regan’s brother Liam can’t stand the person he is during the day. Like the moon from whom Liam has chosen his female namesake, his true self, Luna, on
Garbo | Rusty | Carol Frehardt and her best friend Monica ‘Rusty’ Stone, decide to escape their jobs at Redskin Broom Company and move to Colorado. On their way, they
Sarah Aldridge | All True Lovers | This is a sensual, sensitive feast about two teenage women, growing up during the Great Depression and fighting their way out of the trials they inher