Contemporary Literature |
Allison, Dorothy | Bastard Out of Carolina | Young woman survives a brutal childhood; 1992 |
Alther, Lisa | Kinflicks | Coming out in tumultuous 1950s/60s; 1976 |
Barker, Pat | Regeneration | World War I through historical and fictional characters; author continues trilogy with Eye in the Door and Ghost Road; 1992 |
Bartlett, Neil | Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall | Passionate, experimental novel about gay and straight families; 1990 |
Bolaño, Robert | By Night in Chile | Last night of a gay priest who secretly instructed the dictator Pinochet; 2000 |
Bram, Christopher | Surprising Myself | A moving exploration of gay, and many other, relationships; 1987 |
Bram, Christopher | Father of Frankenstein | Fiction about the last days of great filmmaker James Whale; 1995 |
Brown, Rita Mae | Rubyfruit Jungle | Spunky lesbian comes out with a bang; 1973 |
Burgess, Anthony | Earthly Powers | Relationship of gay novelist and Pope; 1980 |
Cameron, Peter | The Weekend | Three people remember their dead friend; 1994 |
Chabon, Michael | Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Two brilliant cousins create a comic book superhero, in this epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel; 2000 |
Chatwin, Bruce | On the Black Hill | 80 years in lives of Welsh twin brothers; 1982 |
Cooper, Dennis | Closer | Obsessions about an enigmatic man; 1989 |
Cunningham, Michael | The Hours | Experiences of three women, including Virginia Woolf, spanning the 20th c.; 1998 |
Dykewomon, Elana | Riverfinger Women | Woman triumphs over prostitution and abuse; 1974 |
Ellis, Bret Easton | Less Than Zero | How a group of nihilistic Generation X college students spend their Christmas vacation; 1985 |
Feinberg, Leslie | Stone Butch Blues | Lesbian passes as man in 1960s NY; 1993 |
Ferro, Robert | The Family of Max Desir | Man tries to unite his gay and straight lives; 1983 |
Flagg, Fannie | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe | Two women become partners, in love and business, running a small Alabama cafe; 1987 |
Forrest, Katherine | Curious Wine | Best-selling lesbian love story; 1983 |
Fox, John | Boys on the Rock | Tender, funny gay coming of age novel; 1984 |
Glass, Julia | Three Junes | Loves and losses in a Scottish family during three fateful summers; 2002 |
Grimsley, Jim | Dream Boy | Boy survives incest through a friend's love; 1995 |
Grumbach, Doris | The Ladies | Based on historical 18th c. lesbian couple in Wales; 1984 |
Harris, Bertha | Lover | Experimental work "from the libido"; 1976 |
Holleran, Andrew | Dancer from the Dance | Life in '70s NYC fast lane; 1978 |
Hollinghurst, Alan | The Swimming-Pool Library | Interracial affair in pre-AIDS London; 1988 |
Kenan, Randall | Let the Dead Bury Their Dead | Stories about the diverse people living in a small North Carolina town; 1992 |
Leavitt, David | Lost Language of Cranes | Father and son, both gay, come to terms; 1986 |
Lurie, Alison | The Last Resort | "Perfect housewife" explores lesbian life; 1998 |
Maupin, Armistead | Tales of the City Series | Six funny, moving novels centering on San Francisco's freewheeling 28 Barbary Lane; 1978-91 |
McCauley, Stephen | The Object of My Affection | Gay man and straight woman share a Brooklyn apartment – and their lives; 1987 |
Monette, Paul | Halfway Home | Dying drag performance artist finds love; 1991 |
Nadas, Peter | Book of Memories | Magnum opus about postwar Hungary; 1985 |
O'Neill, Jamie | At Swim, Two Boys | Two young men seek political and romantic freedom during Dublin's tumultuous 1916 Easter Uprising; 2001 |
Plante, David | Francoeur Trilogy | Boy grows up in a Franco-American home: Family, Country, & Woods; 1978-82 |
Puig, Manuel | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Apolitical gay man and straight revolutionary share Argentine prison cell; 1976 |
Purdy, James | In a Shallow Grave | Passionate, lyrical tale of a disfigured war veteran returned home; 1975 |
Renault, Mary | The Persian Boy | Alexander the Great and his lover; 1972 |
Russell, Paul | The Coming Storm | Four interwoven perspectives on a student/teacher affair at a private boys' school; 1999 |
Sadownick, Douglas | Sacred Lips of the Bronx | Moves between a young man's first love in the 1970s Bronx and relationships in 1991 L.A.; 1994 |
Schulman, Sarah | Rat Bohemia | Cast-off lesbians and a gay man form a family; 1995 |
Selvadurai, Shyam | Funny Boy | Growing up gay in Sri Lanka; 1996 |
Shockley, Ann Allen | Loving Her | Landmark novel of interracial lesbian relationship; 1974 |
Spanbauer, Tom | The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon | Taming of Wild West, as told by a gay shaman; 1992 |
Swift, Edward | Splendora | Man returns to hometown as Miss Jessie; 1978 |
Tóibín, Colm | The Story of the Night | Gay man comes of age during Argentina's violent struggle towards democracy in the 1980s; 1993 |
Truong, Monique | The Book of Salt | Fictional memoir of Vietnamese cook to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas; 2003 |
Walker, Alice | The Color Purple | Abused woman finds self-acceptance through love with a blues singer; 1982 |
Warren, Patricia Nell | The Front Runner | Track coach and star runner fall in love; 1974 |
Waters, Sarah | Tipping the Velvet | Young lesbian seeks a "life of sensation" in 1890s England; 1999 |
White, Edmund | A Boy's Own Story | A self-corrupting gay youth in the 1950s; 1982 |
Winterson, Jeanette | Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
| Lesbian teen grows up in British fundamentalist family; 1985 |
