The Publishing Triangle's list of 100 best lesbian and gay novels

Submitted by Heptapod on Thu, 08/09/2007 - 11:20
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  1. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
  2. Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
  3. Our Lady of the Flowers, Jean Genet
  4. Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
  5. The Immoralist, Andre Gide
  6. Orlando, Virginia Woolf
  7. The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall
  8. Kiss of the Spider Woman, Manuel Puig
  9. The Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar
  10. Zami, Audré Lorde
  11. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
  12. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
  13. Billy Budd, Herman Melville
  14. A Boy's Own Story, Edmund White
  15. Dancer from the Dance, Andrew Holleran
  16. Maurice, Edward Morgan Forster
  17. The City and the Pillar, Gore Vidal
  18. Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown
  19. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
  20. Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima
  21. The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers
  22. City of Night, John Rechy
  23. Myra Breckinridge, Gore Vidal
  24. Patience and Sarah, Isabel Miller
  25. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein
  26. Other Voices, Other Rooms, Truman Capote
  27. The Bostonians, Henry James
  28. Two Serious Ladies, Jane Bowles
  29. Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
  30. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
  31. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
  32. The Persian Boy, Mary Renault
  33. A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood
  34. The Swimming Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst
  35. Olivia, Dorothy Bussy
  36. The Price of Salt (Carol), Patricia Highsmith
  37. Aquamarine, Carol Anshaw
  38. Another Country, James Baldwin
  39. Chéri, Colette
  40. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
  41. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
  42. Women in Love, David Herbert Lawrence
  43. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
  44. The Friendly Young Ladies (The Middle Mist), Mary Renault
  45. Young Törless, Robert Musil
  46. Eustace Chisholm and the Works, James Purdy
  47. The Story of Harold, Terry Andrews
  48. The Gallery, John Horne Burns
  49. Sister Gin, June Arnold
  50. Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall, Neil Bartlett
  51. Father of Frankenstein, Christopher Bram
  52. Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
  53. The Berlin Stories, Christopher Isherwood
  54. The Young and Evil, Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler
  55. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
  56. A Visitation of Spirits, Randall Kenan
  57. Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
  58. Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli, Ronald Firbank
  59. Rat Bohemia, Sarah Schulman
  60. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
  61. The Counterfeiters, André Gide
  62. The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
  63. Lover, Bertha Harris
  64. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
  65. La Bâtarde, Violette Leduc
  66. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
  67. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  68. The Satyricon, Petronius
  69. The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell
  70. Special Friendships, Roger Peyrefitte
  71. The Changelings, Jo Sinclair
  72. Paradiso, José Lezama Lima
  73. Sheeper, Irving Rosenthal
  74. Les Guerilleres, Monique Wittig
  75. The Child Manuela (Mädchen in Uniform), Christa Winsloe
  76. An Arrow's Flight, Mark Merlis
  77. The Gaudy Image, William Talsman
  78. The Exquisite Corpse, Alfred Chester
  79. Was, Geoff Ryman
  80. Théresè and Isabelle, Violette Leduc
  81. Gemini, Michel Tournier
  82. The Beautiful Room Is Empty, Edmund White
  83. The Children's Crusade, Rebecca Brown
  84. The Story of the Night, Colm Toibin
  85. The Holy Terrors, Jean Cocteau
  86. Hell Has No Limits, José Donoso
  87. Riverfinger Women, Elana Nachman (Dykewomon)
  88. The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, Tom Spanbauer
  89. Closer, Dennis Cooper
  90. Lost Illusions, Honoré de Balzac
  91. Miss Peabody's Inheritance, Elizabeth Jolley
  92. René's Flesh, Virgilio Piñera
  93. Funny Boy, Shyam Selvadurai
  94. Wasteland, Jo Sinclair
  95. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, May Sarton
  96. Sea of Tranquillity, Paul Russell
  97. Autobiography of a Family Photo, Jacqueline Woodson
  98. In Thrall, Jane DeLynn
  99. On Strike Against God, Joanna Russ
  100. Sita, Kate Millett
Author Comments: 

This is a lovely list. The ones I've read are in italics. It's nice to know there are many more out there.

Nance08/10/2007

If you want, you could erase my numbers by reput the _ before the title of the novel.

The numbered are the ones I have read.
So it's logical that you removed the numbers of the ones I have read from your list.
Or there will be a confusion. Don't you think? f(^-^)

pablopcosta05/23/2008

My favorite one is "A imitação do amanhecer" (something like "The imitation of dawn"), by Bruno Tolentino. He was a genious poet and Literature teacher at Oxford. This book retells in 539 sonnets the story of a trip of a young man to Alexandria and his passion for a boy there. This boy dies, and he embalms his body to keep it. Sublime. But I don't think it's available in any other language but Portuguese.