Dorothy Allison

46 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
Crooked Letter i: Coming Out in the South by Thom Koch, Merril Mushroom, B. Andrew Plant, Beth Richards, Connie Griffin, Jeff Mann, Dorothy Allison, Elizabeth Craven, Christina Holzhauser, Logan Knight

Crooked Letter i: Coming Out in the South

Thom Koch, Merril Mushroom, B. Andrew Plant, Beth Richards, Connie Griffin, Jeff Mann, Dorothy Allison, Elizabeth Craven, Christina Holzhauser, Logan Knight

172 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

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

Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers

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

512 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

fiction short stories emotional reflective medium-paced
Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology by Billie Tallmij, Jill Frushtick, James Purdy, Martina Navratilova, Jeanne Manford, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, James Baldwin, David Kopay, Erna Pahe, Lev Raphael, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Radclyffe Hall, Steven Saylor, Nancy Garden, Quentin Crisp, Linda Heal, Sean Mills, Terry Wolverton, Morty Manford, Perry Deane Young, Pat Parker, Paula Gunn Allen, David Leavitt, David J. Deschamps, Beth Harrison, M.E. Kerr, Travis Wise, Kitty Tsui, Clifford Chase, Kevin Jennings, Dorothy Allison, Audre Lorde, Bennett L. Singer, Essex Hemphill, Paul Phillips, Calvin Glenn, Nancy D. Kates, Joseph Steffan, Walt Whitman, Becky Birtha, David Bergman, Jesse G. Monteagudo, Karl Bruce Knapper, Dennis Cooper, Jeanette Winterson, Tom Shepard, Paul Monette, John Reid, Julia Sullivan

Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology

Billie Tallmij, Jill Frushtick, James Purdy, Martina Navratilova, Jeanne Manford, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, James Baldwin, David Kopay, Erna Pahe, Lev Raphael, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Radclyffe Hall, Steven Saylor, Nancy Garden, Quentin Crisp, Linda Heal, Sean Mills, Terry Wolverton, Morty Manford, Perry Deane Young, Pat Parker, Paula Gunn Allen, David Leavitt, David J. Deschamps, Beth Harrison, M.E. Kerr, Travis Wise, Kitty Tsui, Clifford Chase, Kevin Jennings, Dorothy Allison, Audre Lorde, Bennett L. Singer, Essex Hemphill, Paul Phillips, Calvin Glenn, Nancy D. Kates, Joseph Steffan, Walt Whitman, Becky Birtha, David Bergman, Jesse G. Monteagudo, Karl Bruce Knapper, Dennis Cooper, Jeanette Winterson, Tom Shepard, Paul Monette, John Reid, Julia Sullivan

336 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

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

High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings

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

320 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

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

Jesus Is Sending You This Message: Stories

Dorothy Allison, Jim Grimsley

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 Amber L. Hollibaugh, Dorothy Allison, Michele Ainabarale

My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home

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

The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories

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

464 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ short stories challenging reflective slow-paced