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 and Other Tales
    by Thomas Mann
  2. 2.
    Giovanni's Room
    by James Baldwin
  3. 3.
    Our Lady of the Flowers
    by Jean Genet
  4. 4.
    Remembrance of Things Past Volumes 1-3 Box Set
    by Marcel Proust
  5. 5.
    The Immoralist
    by André Gide
  6. 6.
    Orlando: A Biography
    by Virginia Woolf
  7. 7.
    The Well of Loneliness
    by Radclyffe Hall
  8. 8.
    Kiss of the Spider Woman
    by Manuel Puig
  9. 9.
    Memoirs of Hadrian
    by Marguerite Yourcenar
  11. 11.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    by Oscar Wilde
  12. 12.
    Nightwood
    by Djuna Barnes
  13. 13.
    Billy Budd and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville
  15. 15.
    Dancer from the Dance: A Novel
    by Andrew Holleran
  16. 16.
    ?
    Maurice: A Novel
    by E. m. Forster
  17. 17.
    The City and the Pillar: A Novel
    by Gore Vidal
  18. 18.
    Rubyfruit Jungle
    by Rita Mae Brown
  19. 19.
    Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library)
    by Evelyn Waugh
  20. 20.
    Confessions of a Mask
    by Yukio Mishima
  21. 21.
    The Member of the Wedding
    by CARSON MCCULLERS
  22. 22.
    City of Night (Rechy, John)
    by John Rechy
  23. 23.
  24. 24.
    ?
    Patience & Sarah
    by Isabel Miller
  25. 25.
    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
    by Gertrude Stein
  26. 26.
    Other Voices, Other Rooms
    by Truman Capote
  27. 27.
    The Bostonians (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James
  28. 28.
    ?
    Two Serious Ladies
    by Jane Bowles
  29. 29.
    Bastard Out of Carolina
    by Dorothy Allison
  30. 30.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers
  31. 31.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf
  32. 32.
    The Persian Boy
    by Mary Renault
  33. 33.
    A Single Man
    by Christopher Isherwood
  34. 34.
    The Swimming-Pool Library
    by Alan Hollinghurst
  35. 35.
    ?
    Olivia
    by Dorothy Bussy
  36. 36.
    The Price of Salt
    by Patricia Highsmith
  37. 37.
    Aquamarine
    by Carol Anshaw
  38. 38.
    Another Country
    by James Baldwin
  39. 39.
    ?
    Cheri
    by Sidonie­Gabrielle Colette
  40. 40.
    The Turn of Screw
    by Henry James
  41. 41.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker
  42. 42.
  43. 43.
    Little Women (Penguin Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott
  44. 44.
    The Friendly Young Ladies
    by Mary Renault
  45. 45.
    ?
    YOUNG TORLESS
    by Robert musil
  46. 46.
    ?
    Eustace Chisholm and the Works
    by Purdy
  47. 47.
    ?
    The story of Harold;: A novel
    by Terry Andrews
  48. 48.
    ?
    The Gallery (The Arbor House Library of Contemporary Americana)
    by John Horne Burns
  49. 49.
    Sister Gin
    by June Arnold
  50. 50.
    ?
    Ready to catch him should he fall (90s)
    by Neil Bartlett

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Comments

morethan43

where to begin — 5 years 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

Dec 09, 06:28PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

tassini

Untitled — 5 years 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.

Dec 05, 12:01PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

wbreb

Little Women... — 7 years ago

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

May 25, 07:17AM | 3 comments | Reply to this



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