Dorothy Allison

49 books

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

Bastard Out of Carolina

Dorothy Allison

320 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ dark emotional reflective slow-paced
Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers by Tina McElroy Ansa, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, Ellen Glasgow, Gayl Jones, Mary Hood, Elizabeth Cox, Lee Smith, Dorothy Allison, Margaret Gibson, Katherine Anne Porter, Ellen Gilchrist, Zora Neale Hurston, Mary Noailles Murfree, Doris Betts, Alice Walker, Mary Ward Brown, Elizabeth Spencer, Susie Mee, Flannery O'Connor, Bobbie Ann Mason, Eudora Welty

Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers

Tina McElroy Ansa, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, Ellen Glasgow, Gayl Jones, Mary Hood, Elizabeth Cox, Lee Smith, Dorothy Allison, Margaret Gibson, Katherine Anne Porter, Ellen Gilchrist, Zora Neale Hurston, Mary Noailles Murfree, Doris Betts, Alice Walker, Mary Ward Brown, Elizabeth Spencer, Susie Mee, Flannery O'Connor, Bobbie Ann Mason, Eudora Welty

512 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

fiction short stories emotional reflective medium-paced
High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings by Dorothy Allison, Essex Hemphill, Mary Gaitskill, William S. Burroughs, Amy Scholder, Ira Silverberg, Dennis Cooper

High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings

Dorothy Allison, Essex Hemphill, Mary Gaitskill, William S. Burroughs, Amy Scholder, Ira Silverberg, Dennis Cooper

320 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

fiction short stories challenging slow-paced
Jesus Is Sending You This Message: Stories by Jim Grimsley, Dorothy Allison

Jesus Is Sending You This Message: Stories

Jim Grimsley, Dorothy Allison

208 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ short stories reflective slow-paced
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

The Member of the Wedding

Carson McCullers

163 pages • first pub 1946 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective slow-paced
My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home by Dorothy Allison, Amber L. Hollibaugh, Michele Ainabarale

My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home

Dorothy Allison, Amber L. Hollibaugh, Michele Ainabarale

304 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
New Stories from the South 2010: The Year's Best by Amy Hempel

New Stories from the South 2010: The Year's Best

New Stories from the South

Amy Hempel

400 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

fiction short stories reflective slow-paced
The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories by Anaïs Nin, Frances Gapper, Hilda Doolittle, Merril Mushroom, Jewelle Gomez, Joan Nestle, Dorothy Allison, Renée Vivien, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Strachey, Jeanette Winterson, Beth Nugent, Radclyffe Hall, Kathy Acker, Emma Donoghue, Djuna Barnes, Jane Rule, Rebecca Brown, Katherine Mansfield, Sarah Orne Jewett, Alison Bechdel, Gertrude Stein, Nicole Brossard, Monique Wittig, Ann Bannon, Pat Califia, Jayne Anne Phillips, Anna Livia, Colette, Margaret Atwood, Sara Maitland, Margaret Reynolds, Isak Dinesen

The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories

Anaïs Nin, Frances Gapper, Hilda Doolittle, Merril Mushroom, Jewelle Gomez, Joan Nestle, Dorothy Allison, Renée Vivien, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Strachey, Jeanette Winterson, Beth Nugent, Radclyffe Hall, Kathy Acker, Emma Donoghue, Djuna Barnes, Jane Rule, Rebecca Brown, Katherine Mansfield, Sarah Orne Jewett, Alison Bechdel, Gertrude Stein, Nicole Brossard, Monique Wittig, Ann Bannon, Pat Califia, Jayne Anne Phillips, Anna Livia, Colette, Margaret Atwood, Sara Maitland, Margaret Reynolds, Isak Dinesen

464 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature by Dorothy Allison

Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature

Dorothy Allison

261 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism challenging reflective slow-paced
Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly by Dorothy Allison, Lee Gutkind, Beth Ann Fennelly

Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly

Dorothy Allison, Lee Gutkind, Beth Ann Fennelly

350 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ reflective fast-paced