Dorothy Allison

47 books

Swords of the Rainbow by Tanya Huff, Nina Boal, Bruce Zinda, Jewelle L. Gómez, Stan Leventhal, Lawrence Schimel, Mel Keegan, Mark Shepherd, Carrie Richerson, Eric Garber, Jean Stewart, Dorothy Allison, Samuel R. Delany, Jim Provenzano, A.J. Potter, Lauren Wright Douglas

Swords of the Rainbow

Tanya Huff, Nina Boal, Bruce Zinda, Jewelle L. Gómez, Stan Leventhal, Lawrence Schimel, Mel Keegan, Mark Shepherd, Carrie Richerson, Eric Garber, Jean Stewart, Dorothy Allison, Samuel R. Delany, Jim Provenzano, A.J. Potter, Lauren Wright Douglas

352 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction fantasy science fiction short stories adventurous slow-paced
Tin House: Tenth Anniversary Issue by Charles Baxter, Amy Hempel, Jim Shepard, Dorothy Allison, Aimee Bender

Tin House: Tenth Anniversary Issue

Tin House Magazine

Charles Baxter, Amy Hempel, Jim Shepard, Dorothy Allison, Aimee Bender

224 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction essays poetry short stories reflective sad medium-paced
Trash by Dorothy Allison

Trash

Dorothy Allison

240 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ short stories challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

Dorothy Allison

94 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean:Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia by Kathryn Stripling Byer, Jayne Anne Phillips, Sheldon Lee Compton, Lisa Lewis, R.J. Gibson, bell hooks, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Charles Dodd White, Connie May Fowler, Julia Watts, Rob Amberg, Pinckney Benedict, Ida Stewart, Ann Pancake, Sarah Einstein, Crystal Wilkinson, Carter Sickels, Jacinda Townsend, Jeff Mann, Adrian Blevins, Tennessee Jones, Dorothy Allison, Mary Crockett Hill, Jessie van Eerden, Chris Offutt, Jane Springer, Joyce Dyer, Jason Howard, Richard Currey, Michael Croley, David Huddle, Aaron Smith, Silas House, Melissa Range

Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean:Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia

Kathryn Stripling Byer, Jayne Anne Phillips, Sheldon Lee Compton, Lisa Lewis, R.J. Gibson, bell hooks, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Charles Dodd White, Connie May Fowler, Julia Watts, Rob Amberg, Pinckney Benedict, Ida Stewart, Ann Pancake, Sarah Einstein, Crystal Wilkinson, Carter Sickels, Jacinda Townsend, Jeff Mann, Adrian Blevins, Tennessee Jones, Dorothy Allison, Mary Crockett Hill, Jessie van Eerden, Chris Offutt, Jane Springer, Joyce Dyer, Jason Howard, Richard Currey, Michael Croley, David Huddle, Aaron Smith, Silas House, Melissa Range

288 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism reflective slow-paced
Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class by Michelle Tea

Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class

Michelle Tea

224 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism challenging reflective fast-paced
Women on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction by Willyce Kim, Joanna Russ, Camille Roy, Lee Lynch, Margaret Erhart, Rocky Gamez, Lesléa Newman, Joan Nestle, Ida Swearingen, Sherri Paris, Jewelle L. Gómez, Willa Cather, Jess Wells, Sapphire, Beth Brant, Judith McDaniel, Dorothy Allison, Valerie Miner, Leslie Lawrence, Becky Birtha, Kristina McGrath, Jacqueline Woodson, June Arnold, Teya Schaffer, Sarah Schulman, Cathy Cockrell, Bertha Harris, Naomi Holoch

Women on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction

Women on Women #1

Willyce Kim, Joanna Russ, Camille Roy, Lee Lynch, Margaret Erhart, Rocky Gamez, Lesléa Newman, Joan Nestle, Ida Swearingen, Sherri Paris, Jewelle L. Gómez, Willa Cather, Jess Wells, Sapphire, Beth Brant, Judith McDaniel, Dorothy Allison, Valerie Miner, Leslie Lawrence, Becky Birtha, Kristina McGrath, Jacqueline Woodson, June Arnold, Teya Schaffer, Sarah Schulman, Cathy Cockrell, Bertha Harris, Naomi Holoch

320 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ short stories challenging reflective fast-paced
The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House by Kate Bernheimer, Matthea Harvey, Charles D'Ambrosio, Susan Bell, Steve Almond, Nick Flynn, Stephen Elliott, Marie Howe, Jim Shepard, Dorothy Allison, Chris Offutt, Anna Keesey, Denis Johnson, Aimee Bender, D.A. Powell

The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House

Craft Essays from Tin House #1

Kate Bernheimer, Matthea Harvey, Charles D'Ambrosio, Susan Bell, Steve Almond, Nick Flynn, Stephen Elliott, Marie Howe, Jim Shepard, Dorothy Allison, Chris Offutt, Anna Keesey, Denis Johnson, Aimee Bender, D.A. Powell

288 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction essays informative reflective slow-paced
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology Of Autobiographical Narratives By Twentieth Century American Women Writers by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Maxine Hong Kingston, May Sarton, Lucille Clifton, Zora Neale Hurston, bell hooks, Kate Millett, M.F.K. Fisher, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Patricia Hampl, Dorothy Day, Sandra Cisneros, Jane O'Reilly, Madeleine L'Engle, Annie Dillard, Bebe Moore Campbell, Mary Crow Dog, Ann Cornelisen, Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, Beverly Donofrio, Florida Scott-Maxwell, Ellen Glasgow, Lorene Cary, Jane Addams, Eileen Simpson, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Susan Cahill, Hortense Calisher, Dorothy Allison, Audre Lorde, Denise Levertov, Tillie Olsen, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Maya Angelou, Natalie Kusz, Mary Mebane, Joyce Johnson, Mary Antin, Edith Wharton, Nancy Mairs, Kate Simon, Shirley Abbott, Vivian Gornick, Diane Glancy, Maureen Howard, Jamaica Kincaid, Louise Bogan, Nikki Giovanni

Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology Of Autobiographical Narratives By Twentieth Century American Women Writers

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Maxine Hong Kingston, May Sarton, Lucille Clifton, Zora Neale Hurston, bell hooks, Kate Millett, M.F.K. Fisher, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Patricia Hampl, Dorothy Day, Sandra Cisneros, Jane O'Reilly, Madeleine L'Engle, Annie Dillard, Bebe Moore Campbell, Mary Crow Dog, Ann Cornelisen, Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, Beverly Donofrio, Florida Scott-Maxwell, Ellen Glasgow, Lorene Cary, Jane Addams, Eileen Simpson, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Susan Cahill, Hortense Calisher, Dorothy Allison, Audre Lorde, Denise Levertov, Tillie Olsen, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Maya Angelou, Natalie Kusz, Mary Mebane, Joyce Johnson, Mary Antin, Edith Wharton, Nancy Mairs, Kate Simon, Shirley Abbott, Vivian Gornick, Diane Glancy, Maureen Howard, Jamaica Kincaid, Louise Bogan, Nikki Giovanni

509 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction biography feminism informative reflective slow-paced
All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality by

All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality

198 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction memoir religion emotional informative reflective medium-paced