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100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels
( The Publishing Triangle )
  Rank Author Title Year Call Number
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 34 Alan Hollinghurst The Swimming Pool Library PR6058.O4467 S9 1989
  78 Alfred Chester The Exquisite Corpse
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 41 Alice Walker The Color Purple PS3573.A425 C6 1992
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 5 Andre Gide The Immoralist PQ2613.I2 I44
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 61 André Gide The Counterfeiters PQ2613.I2 C6
  15 Andrew Holleran Dancer from the Dance
  10 Audré Lorde Zami
  63 Bertha Harris Lover
  37 Carol Anshaw Aquamarine
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 30 Carson McCullers The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter PS3525.A1772 H4 2000
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 21 Carson McCullers The Member of the Wedding PS3525.A1772 M4 1951
  54 Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler The Young and Evil
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 75 Christa Winsloe The Child Manuela (Mädchen in Uniform) PT2647.I67 G43
  51 Christopher Bram Father of Frankenstein
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 33 Christopher Isherwood A Single Man PR6017.S5 S5 2001
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 53 Christopher Isherwood The Berlin Stories PR6017.S5 B4
  39 Colette Chéri
  84 Colm Toibin The Story of the Night
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 42 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love PR6023.A93 W63 1987
  89 Dennis Cooper Closer
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 12 Djuna Barnes Nightwood PS3503.A614 N5
  29 Dorothy Allison Bastard Out of Carolina
  35 Dorothy Bussy Olivia
  16 E. M. Forster Maurice
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 14 Edmund White A Boy's Own Story PS3573.H463 B6 2000
  82 Edmund White The Beautiful Room Is Empty
  87 Elana Nachman (Dykewomon) Riverfinger Women
  91 Elizabeth Jolley Miss Peabody's Inheritance
  19 Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited
  79 Geoff Ryman Was
  25 Gertrude Stein The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 57 Gertrude Stein Three Lives PS3537.T323 T44 2002
  23 Gore Vidal Myra Breckinridge
  17 Gore Vidal The City and the Pillar
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 67 Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird PS3562.E353 T6
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 27 Henry James The Bostonians PS2116 .B6 1991
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 40 Henry James The Turn of the Screw PS2116 .T8 1999
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 13 Herman Melville Billy Budd PS2382 .M6
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 64 Herman Melville Moby Dick PS2384.M6 F67
  90 Honoré de Balzac Lost Illusions
  73 Irving Rosenthal Sheeper
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 24 Isabel Miller Patience and Sarah PS3568.O889 PAT3 1983
  97 Jacqueline Woodson Autobiography of a Family Photo
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 38 James Baldwin Another Country PS3552.A45 A6 1998
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 2 James Baldwin Giovanni's Room PS3552.A45 G5 2000
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 46 James Purdy Eustace Chisholm and the Works PS3566.U7 E9
  28 Jane Bowles Two Serious Ladies
  98 Jane DeLynn In Thrall
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 85 Jean Cocteau The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles) PQ2605.O15 H6
  3 Jean Genet Our Lady of the Flowers
  55 Jeanette Winterson Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
  62 Jeanette Winterson The Passion
  71 Jo Sinclair The Changelings
  94 Jo Sinclair Wasteland
  99 Joanna Russ On Strike Against God
  48 John Horne Burns The Gallery
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 22 John Rechy City of Night PS3535.E4 C5 C3
  86 José Donoso Hell Has No Limits
  72 José Lezama Lima Paradiso
  49 June Arnold Sister Gin
  100 Kate Millett Sita
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 69 Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet PR6007.U76 A68
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 43 Louisa May Alcott Little Women PS1016 2005
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 8 Manuel Puig Kiss of the Spider Woman PQ7798.26.U4 B413 1980
  4 Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 9 Marguerite Yourcenar The Memoirs of Hadrian PS3547.O8 M4
  76 Mark Merlis An Arrow's Flight
  44 Mary Renault The Friendly Young Ladies (The Middle Mist)
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 32 Mary Renault The Persian Boy PR6035.E55 P4 1988
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 95 Mary Sarton Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing PS3537.A832 M58
  81 Michel Tournier Gemini
  74 Monique Wittig Les Guerilleres
  50 Neil Bartlett Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 11 Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray PR5819 .A1 1988
  36 Patricia Highsmith The Price of Salt (Carol)
  96 Paul Russell Sea of Tranquillity
  68 Petronius The Satyricon
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 7 Radclyffe Hall The Well of Loneliness PR6015.A33 W43 1990
  56 Randall Kenan A Visitation of Spirits
  83 Rebecca Brown The Children's Crusade
  18 Rita Mae Brown Ruby Fruit Jungle
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 45 Robert Musil Young Törless PN6120.95.H724 P46 1995
  70 Roger Peyrefitte Special Friendships
  58 Ronald Firbank Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli
  59 Sarah Schulman Rat Bohemia
  93 Shyam Selvadurai Funny Boy
  47 Terry Andrews The Story of Harold
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 1 Thomas Mann Death in Venice PT2625.A44 D42
  88 Tom Spanbauer The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 26 Truman Capote Other Voices, Other Rooms PS3505.A59 O7 2004
  65 Violette Leduc La Bâtarde
  80 Violette Leduc Théresè and Isabelle
  92 Virgilio Piñera René's Flesh
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 31 Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway PR6045.O72 M7
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 6 Virginia Woolf Orlando PR6045.O72 O7
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 60 Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire PS3527.A15 P3
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 66 Willa Cather Death Comes for the Archbishop PS3505.A87 D4
Book Cover courtesy of LibraryThing. 52 William Burroughs Naked Lunch PS3552.U75 N3 2001
  77 William Talsman The Gaudy Image
  20 Yukio Mishima Confessions of a Mask
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The Triangle's list of 100 best lesbian and gay novels was selected by a panel of submitted by our judges, including the lesbian and gay writers Dorothy Allison, David Bergman, Christopher Bram, Michael Bronski, Samuel Delany, Lillian Faderman, Anthony Heilbut, M.E. Kerr, Jenifer Levin, John Loughery, Jaime Manrique, Mariana Romo-Carmona, Sarah Schulman, and Barbara Smith. The Publishing Triangle the association of lesbians and gay men in publishing, including book & magazine writers, editors, agents, marketing, sub-rights, publicity and sales people, booksellers, designers, librarians, and general book lovers.

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