BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN BIO of Pulitzer-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein is hampered by its subject’s reserve.

INTENSE, SENSITIVE, EVOCATIVE story of the impact of a hate crime in a small town; YA that resonates for adults.

THE GREAT AMERICAN Opera Novel is sprawling, sensual, erudite, campy, and not for everyone–just like opera!

LESBIAN SLEUTH/RESTAURATEUR Jane Lawless’s 18th outing offers tensely plotted scenes, but too much backstory.

THOUGHTFUL, UPBEAT, sometimes hilarious memoir by a lesbian mom whose partner was birth mom to their daughter. B PLUS

SHE LOOKS JUST LIKE YOU: A MEMOIR OF (NONBIOLOGICAL LESBIAN) MOTHERHOOD
Beacon
2010

ENGROSSING BIOGRAPHY of 20th-century gay writer, scholar, tattoo artist, sexual revolutionary Samuel Steward. B PLUS

SECRET HISTORIAN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SAMUEL STEWARD, PROFESSOR, TATTOO ARTIST, AND SEXUAL RENEGADE
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2010