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All awards · Topic: Lgbtq History & Life · Sorted by score · 141 books · filtered
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American FamiliesJ. Anthony Lukas198534 pts4 wins4 listsKnopfRace & EthnicityFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
Gulag: A History of the Soviet CampsAnne Applebaum200428 pts2 wins6 listsDoubledayHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+2
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to HitlerRebecca Donner202122 pts2 wins4 listsBack Bay BooksBiographyHolocaust+2
A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian RevolutionOrlando Figes199618 pts3 wins3 listsJonathan CapeHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a WomanRobert K. Massie201118 pts2 wins3 listsRandom HouseBiographyPolitical Biography+2
Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of RevolutionAmanda Vaill202516 pts1 wins3 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyLgbtq History & Life+1
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth CenturyCharles King201916 pts2 wins5 listsDoubledayRace & EthnicityLgbtq History & Life+2
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer RadicalsSaidiya Hartman201914 pts2 wins2 listsW. W. NortonRace & EthnicityGender & Feminism+1
In the DarkroomSusan Faludi201614 pts1 wins2 listsMetropolitan BooksMemoir & AutobiographyLgbtq History & Life+2
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the 14th CenturyJohn Boswell198014 pts1 wins2 listsUniversity of Chicago PressHistoryFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
Baldwin: A Love StoryNicholas Boggs202512 pts1 wins4 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
Gay Bar: Why We Went OutJeremy Atherton Lin202110 pts1 wins1 listsLittle, BrownMemoir & AutobiographySports Biography+2
Age of FractureDaniel T. Rodgers201110 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from SexJudith Levine200210 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Minnesota PressGender & SexualityLgbtq History & Life+2
Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold RushSusan Lee Johnson200010 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonHistoryGender & Feminism+3
The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian EnglandAmanda Vickery199810 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryGender & Feminism+2
Britons: Forging the Nation 1707 - 1837Linda Colley199210 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+2
The Rise and Fall of the Third ChimpanzeeJared Diamond199110 pts1 wins1 listsVintage BooksScienceNatural History & Animals+2
Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great DepressionAlan Brinkley198210 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfHistoryLgbtq History & Life+2
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American WomenSusan Faludi198110 pts1 wins1 listsCrownGender & SexualityLgbtq History & Life+2
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing ExpectationsChristopher Lasch198010 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonSociety & CultureLgbtq History & Life+2
The Enlightenment, Vol. I: The Rise of Modern PaganismPeter Gay196710 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryLgbtq History & Life+2
Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of AmericaJacquelyn Dowd Hall201910 pts2 wins3 listsW. W. NortonRace & EthnicityBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+1
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine HansberryImani Perry201810 pts2 wins3 listsBeacon PressBiographyBlack History & Culture+3
Freud: A Life for Our TimePeter Gay19898 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintBiographyLgbtq History & Life+2
1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in DeclineRay Huang19818 pts0 wins2 listsYale University PressHistoryLgbtq History & Life+3
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary ImaginationSandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar19798 pts0 wins2 listsYale University PressArts & CriticismLgbtq History & Life+1
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli MurrayRosalind Rosenberg20176 pts1 wins2 listsOxford University PressBiographyLgbtq History & Life+3
The Right To Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First CenturyAmia Srinivasan20216 pts0 wins2 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxGender & SexualityLgbtq History & Life+2
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot CocktailsSarah Bakewell20166 pts0 wins2 listsOther PressBiographyLgbtq History & Life+2
A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian HellmanAlice Kessler-Harris20126 pts0 wins2 listsBloomsburyBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
All We Know: Three LivesLisa Cohen20126 pts0 wins2 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color LineMartha A. Sandweiss20096 pts0 wins2 listsPenguin PressRace & EthnicityLgbtq History & Life+2
Whiskey TenderDeborah Jackson Taffa20246 pts0 wins2 listsHarperMemoir & AutobiographyTravel, Exploration & Place+2
Apollo’s Angels: A History of BalletJennifer Homans20106 pts0 wins2 listsGranta BooksHistoryMemoir & Personal History+2
Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever ToldJeremy Atherton Lin20254 pts1 wins1 listsLittle, BrownMemoir & AutobiographyLgbtq History & Life+3
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of BuckinghamLucy Hughes-Hallett20244 pts1 wins1 listsHarperBiographyArt, Music & Performance+3
They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's ClassroomsMike Hixenbaugh20244 pts1 wins1 listsMariner BooksPolitics & GovernmentEvangelicalism & Christian Nationalism+3
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate FuturesAyana Elizabeth Johnson20244 pts1 wins1 listsOne WorldNature & EnvironmentLgbtq History & Life+3
Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native AmericaGregory D. Smithers20224 pts1 wins1 listsBeacon PressRace & EthnicityLgbtq History & Life+3
Reaganland: America’s Right Turn (1976-1980)Rick Perlstein20204 pts1 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryLgbtq History & Life+3
Against MemoirMichelle Tea20184 pts1 wins1 listsFeminist PressMemoir & AutobiographyArt, Music & Performance+3
The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a GenderRevolution20184 pts1 wins1 listsNew York University PressGender & SexualityEducation & Universities+3
Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to AmericaNathaniel Frank20174 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressPolitics & GovernmentLgbtq History & Life+3
True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyEmily Skidmore20174 pts1 wins1 listsNew York University PressGender & SexualityEmpire & Colonialism+2
The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of ExplorationDavid Chang20164 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Minnesota PressRace & EthnicityLgbtq History & Life+3
Modernist Mysteries: PersephoneTamara Levitz20124 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+3
The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient WorldJames Davidson20074 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseHistoryArt, Music & Performance+3
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940George Chauncey19944 pts1 wins1 listsBasic BooksHistoryGender & Feminism+2
The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunication in Early ChristianityPeter Brown19884 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressReligionGender & Feminism+3
Code of Silence: Sexual Misconduct by Federal Judges, the Secret System that Protects Them, and the Women Who Blew the WhistleLise Olsen20214 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintGender & SexualityGender & Feminism+1
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New YorkElon Green20224 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+3
The Gay RevolutionLillian Faderman20164 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintGender & SexualityGender & Feminism+1
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women WritersHenry Louis Gates Jr.19894 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintGender & SexualityBlack History & Culture+3
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay LiberationRobert W. Fieseler20194 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintNature & EnvironmentLgbtq History & Life+2
The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern LifeSophia Rosenfeld20254 pts0 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from BelowJane Kamensky20244 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonBiographyLgbtq History & Life+2
Circle of Hope: A Reckoning With Love, Power, and Justice in an American ChurchEliza Griswold20244 pts0 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxReligionLgbtq History & Life+2
I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of TransitionLucy Sante20244 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin PressMemoir & AutobiographyLiterary Biography+2
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's ConfessionsKate Cooper20234 pts0 wins1 listsBasic BooksHistoryLgbtq History & Life+1
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and CaliphsMarc David Baer20214 pts0 wins1 listsBasic BooksHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's LivesWalt Odets20194 pts0 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxGender & SexualityGender & Feminism+2
Rebent SinnerIvan Coyote20194 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyCrime, Policing & Violence+3
The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of CultureCharles King20194 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityLgbtq History & Life+3
Common People: The History of an English FamilyAlison Light20144 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin BooksHistoryClass, Poverty & Inequality+2
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall JacksonS. C. Gwynne20144 pts0 wins1 listsScribnerBiographyLgbtq History & Life+1
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century SpainPaul Preston20114 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonHistoryHolocaust+2
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women WorldwideNicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn20094 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfGender & SexualityLgbtq History & Life+2
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of SexOlivia Judson20024 pts0 wins1 listsMetropolitan BooksScienceLgbtq History & Life+2
Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century AmericaHelen Lefkowitz Horowitz20024 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfGender & SexualityLgbtq History & Life+2
Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family HistoryJane Brox20004 pts0 wins1 listsBeacon PressMemoir & AutobiographyLgbtq History & Life+2
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They DoJudith Rich Harris19994 pts0 wins1 listsFree PressSociety & CultureClass, Poverty & Inequality+2
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria WoodhullBarbara Goldsmith19984 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfGender & SexualityLgbtq History & Life+1
Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public-Private LifeJames H. Jones19974 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonBiographyLgbtq History & Life+2
John Sloan: Painter and RebelJohn Loughery19974 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyLgbtq History & Life+2
The Rise and Fall of Gay CultureDaniel Harris19974 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureGender & Feminism+1
Beyond Individualism: How Social Demands of the New Identity Groups Challenge American Political andMichael J. Piore19954 pts0 wins1 listsHarvard University PressPolitics & GovernmentLgbtq History & Life+2
Drinking the Rain: A MemoirAlix Kates Shulman19954 pts0 wins1 listsBloomsburyMemoir & AutobiographyLiterature & Writers+2
The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism on CampusKatie Roiphe19944 pts0 wins1 listsBack Bay BooksGender & SexualityReproductive Rights & Family Policy+2
Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define AmericaJames Davison Hunter19924 pts0 wins1 listsBasic BooksSociety & CultureMedia, Journalism & Public Opinion+2
The Six Wives of Henry VIIIAntonia Fraser19924 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel HuizdalaVáclav Havel, Paul Wilson19904 pts0 wins1 listsFaber & FaberMemoir & AutobiographyLgbtq History & Life+2
The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient AthensEva Keuls19864 pts0 wins1 listsHarperCollinsGender & SexualityGender & Feminism+2
A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New EnglandLyle Koehler19804 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintGender & SexualityLgbtq History & Life+2
Seeing Through ClothesAnne Hollander19784 pts0 wins1 listsAvon BooksArts & CriticismMemoir & Personal History+2
Puritanism in America: New Culture in a New WorldLarzer Ziff19734 pts0 wins1 listsVikingHistoryLgbtq History & Life+1
Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion WarsCynthia Gorney19984 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterPolitics & GovernmentGender & Feminism+2
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for TodayProfessor Eddie S. Glaude Jr20214 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+3
Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee MemoirDanny Ramadan20244 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyLgbtq History & Life+3
Grover Cleveland: A Study in CourageAllan Nevins19334 pts0 wins1 listsDodd, Mead & CompanyBiographyLgbtq History & Life+2
Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas FrontierJoanna Stratton19834 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryLgbtq History & Life+2
Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of RevolutionAmanda Vail20254 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyLgbtq History & Life+1
The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to FreudPeter Gay19944 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonSociety & CultureGender & Feminism+1
Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish Women Coming of AgeRosemary Mahoney19934 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintGender & SexualityFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
With Americans of Past and Present DaysJean Jules Jusserand19174 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryLiterature & Writers+2
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of PowerLeah Redmond Chang20234 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBusiness Biography+2
Your Second Life: Vitality and Growth in Middle and Later Years from the Experiences of the Sage ProgramGay Gaer Luce19804 pts0 wins1 listsDelacorte PressSociety & CultureLgbtq History & Life+2
The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern SportsMichael Waters20254 pts0 wins2 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxGender & SexualityLgbtq History & Life+3
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All awards · Topic: Lgbtq History & Life · Sorted by score · 141 books · filtered