Dorothy Allison

43 books

All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality by Susan Ketchin, Sena Jeter Naslund, Sue Monk Kidd, Jeanie Thompson, Sylvia Rhue, Pauli Murray, Cassandra King, Shirley Abbot, Frances Mayes, Wendy Reed, Lee Smith, Dorothy Allison, Vicki Covington, Diane McWhorter, Mab Segrest, Jan Willis, Jessica Roskin, Barbara Kingsolver

All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality

Susan Ketchin, Sena Jeter Naslund, Sue Monk Kidd, Jeanie Thompson, Sylvia Rhue, Pauli Murray, Cassandra King, Shirley Abbot, Frances Mayes, Wendy Reed, Lee Smith, Dorothy Allison, Vicki Covington, Diane McWhorter, Mab Segrest, Jan Willis, Jessica Roskin, Barbara Kingsolver

nonfiction memoir religion emotional informative reflective medium-paced

216 pages | first published 2006

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

Bastard Out of Carolina

Dorothy Allison

fiction classics lgbtqia+ dark emotional reflective slow-paced

320 pages | first published 1992

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

nonfiction lgbtqia+ challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

172 pages | first published 2015

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

fiction short stories emotional reflective medium-paced

512 pages | first published 1995

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

nonfiction lgbtqia+ emotional reflective medium-paced

336 pages | first published 1994

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

fiction short stories challenging slow-paced

320 pages | first published 1991

Jesus Is Sending You This Message: Stories by Dorothy Allison, Jim Grimsley

Jesus Is Sending You This Message: Stories

Dorothy Allison, Jim Grimsley

fiction lgbtqia+ short stories reflective slow-paced

208 pages | first published 2008

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

The Member of the Wedding

Carson McCullers

fiction classics literary emotional reflective slow-paced

163 pages | first published 1946

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

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced

304 pages | first published 2000

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 with Megan Mayhew Bergman, Emily Quinlan, Ron Rash, Laura Lee Smith, Adam Atlas, Ashleigh Pedersen, Wells Tower, Rick Bass, Brad Watson, Kenneth Calhoun, Wendell Berry, Bret Anthony Johnston, Tim Gautreaux, George Singleton, Ann Pancake, Ben Stround, Aaron Gwyn, Marjorie Kemper, Kevin Wilson, Dorothy Allison, Padgett Powell, Danielle Evans, Elizabeth Spencer, Stephen Marion

fiction short stories reflective slow-paced

400 pages | first published 2010