lesbian fiction Archives

‘Captain of Industry’ by Karin Kallmaker

Captain of Industry is subtle and engaging, a Kallmaker love story with the kind of angst to which we can probably all relate

August 15, 2016

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‘The Cosmopolitans’ by Sarah Schulman

Sarah Schulman has given us a finely tuned, clever, and remarkably contemporary historical novel

April 14, 2016

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‘We Love You, Charlie Freeman’ by Kaitlyn Greenidge

That the novel is able to combine ASL culture, race, ambition, family, love, politics, and history is a marvel not to be missed

April 11, 2016 • One Comment

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‘Juliana’ by Vanda

Juliana illustrates a poignant message: to be queer was to be anti-American, in a time where being anti-American meant isolation and ruination

March 30, 2016

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‘Backcast’ by Ann McMan

Backcast is a memorable story about the unbreakable strength and resilience of women

December 20, 2015 • One Comment

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‘Hurricane Days’ by Renée J. Lukas

Hurricane Days is a romantic and gut-wrenching political drama

November 19, 2015

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‘The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghost’ by Tiya Miles

Historians reveal uncomfortable truths and novelists force us to look at them. Perhaps The Cherokee Rose is a nod in support of the New South that recognizes its multicultural past, present, and future.

August 23, 2015

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‘Carry the Sky’ by Kate Gray

Kate Gray has written a stunning book, a blazingly necessary work of fiction for a wounded world.

January 4, 2015

‘Survival Skills: Stories’ by Jean Ryan

The natural world looms large

June 9, 2013 • 2 Comments

‘Damn Love’ by Jasmine Beach-Ferrara

The nine connected stories of Damn

May 28, 2013 • 2 Comments

‘Relative Stranger’ by Barbara Treat Williams

In Relative Stranger, Starr Spenser

May 9, 2013 • One Comment

‘The Albino Album’ by Chavisa Woods

The Albino Album is, at its core, a novel of the human condition. It’s a political novel. It’s a love story and a coming-of-age story. It’s the story of a girl who rides an albino horse and has no patience for the niceties of cultural conditioning. Suffice to say, it’s multifaceted, in the best possible way.

April 14, 2013

‘Dirty Money’ by Ashley Bartlett

Dirty Money is the second

April 11, 2013

‘Makara’ by Kristen Ringman

Traversing from Ireland to India to Venice, Makara (Handtype Press) manages to be both ethereal and incredibly earthly at the same time. It is a coming-of-age story unlike any other.

January 29, 2013 • One Comment

More Colors than Purple

I first saw The Color

January 17, 2013

‘Frozen’ by Carla Tomaso

In the front matter of

November 26, 2012

‘But This Is Different’ by Mary Walker Baron

Amelia Earhart, America’s beloved and

February 8, 2012 • 2 Comments

‘The Last Nude’ By Ellis Avery

While the book begins as a passionate tale from the lush landscape of Paris in the 1920s, livened by entrancing sex scenes and seductive exchanges, the story takes a turn toward the fast-paced—morphing into a plot-driven whodunit…

December 21, 2011 • One Comment