The 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels (selected by The Publishing Triangle)

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To broaden the appreciation of lesbian and gay literature and to promote discussion between all readers gay and straight, the Triangle is proud to offer our picks for the 100 best lesbian and gay novels. Compiled by Publishing Triangle, "The association of lesbians and gay men in publishing".

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  1. 1.
    Death in Venice
    by Thomas Mann

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    Giovanni's Room
    by James Baldwin

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    Our Lady of the Flowers
    by Jean Genet

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    Remembrance of Things Past
    by Marcel Proust

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    The Immoralist
    by ANDRE GIDE

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  6. 6.
    Orlando: A Biography
    by Virginia Woolf

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    The Well of Loneliness: A 1920s Classic of Lesbian Fiction
    by Radclyffe Hall

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    Kiss of the Spider Woman
    by Manuel Puig

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    Memoirs of Hadrian
    by Marguerite Yourcenar

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    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    by Oscar Wilde

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  11. 12.
    Nightwood
    by Djuna Barnes

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    Billy Budd and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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    Dancer from the Dance: A Novel
    by Andrew Holleran

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    Maurice: A Novel
    by E. m. Forster

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  15. 17.
    The City and the Pillar: A Novel
    by Gore Vidal

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    Rubyfruit Jungle
    by Rita Mae Brown

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  17. 19.
    Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  18. 20.
    Confessions of a Mask (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Yukio Mishima

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  19. 21.
    The Member of the Wedding
    by CARSON MCCULLERS

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  20. 22.
    City of Night (Rechy, John)
    by John Rechy

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    Patience & Sarah
    by Isabel Miller

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  23. 25.
    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
    by Gertrude Stein

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  24. 26.
    Other Voices, Other Rooms
    by Truman Capote

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  25. 27.
    The Bostonians (English Library)
    by Henry James

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    Two Serious Ladies
    by Jane Bowles

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    Bastard out of Carolina (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)
    by Dorothy Allison

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    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by CARSON MCCULLERS

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    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

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    The Persian Boy
    by Mary Renault

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    A Single Man
    by Christopher Isherwood

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    Swimming Pool Library
    by Alan Hollinghurst

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    Olivia
    by Dorothy Bussy

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    The Price of Salt
    by Patricia Highsmith

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    Aquamarine
    by Carol Anshaw

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  36. 38.
    Another Country
    by James Baldwin

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    Cheri
    by Sidonie­Gabrielle Colette

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    The Turn of Screw
    by Henry James

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    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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    Little Women (Penguin Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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    The Friendly Young Ladies
    by Mary Renault

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    YOUNG TORLESS
    by Robert musil

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    Eustace Chisholm and the Works
    by Purdy

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    The story of Harold;: A novel
    by Terry Andrews

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    The Gallery (The Arbor House Library of Contemporary Americana)
    by John Horne Burns

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  47. 49.
    Sister Gin
    by June Arnold

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    Ready to catch him should he fall (90s)
    by Neil Bartlett

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Comments

where to begin — 1 year ago

can anyone recommend a couple of these books to start with.

i’m just trying to get an idea and start with something easy, fun, page-turner…

any ideas apreciated


Untitled — 1 year ago

I have to say that when I checked some of these off I was thinking either I was too young or too naive to recognize the gay or lesbian characters. I’m no longer very naive – I don’t think I’d miss anything like that these days.


Little Women... — 3 years ago

How is this a glbt book? I hope you’re not implying the girls are dating… (I have problems with incest;))