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

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".

(found at: http://www.publishingtriangle.org/100best.asp)

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1. Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
 
2. Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
 
3. Our Lady of the Flowers
by Jean Genet
 
4. Remembrance of Things Past
by Marcel Proust
 
5. The Immoralist
by ANDRE GIDE
 
6. Orlando: A Biography
by Virginia Woolf
 
7. The Well of Loneliness: A 1920s Classic of Lesbian Fiction
by Radclyffe Hall
 
8. Kiss of the Spider Woman
by Manuel Puig
 
9. Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
 
10. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
by Audre Lorde
 
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
 
12. Nightwood
by Djuna Barnes
 
13. Billy Budd and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
by Herman Melville
 
14. A Boy's Own Story (Modern Library Classics)  
15. Dancer from the Dance: A Novel
by Andrew Holleran
 
16.
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Maurice: A Novel
by E. m. Forster
 
17. The City and the Pillar: A Novel
by Gore Vidal
 
18. Rubyfruit Jungle
by Rita Mae Brown
 
19. Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Evelyn Waugh
 
20. Confessions of a Mask (New Directions Paperbook)
by Yukio Mishima
 
21. The Member of the Wedding
by CARSON MCCULLERS
 
22. City of Night (Rechy, John)
by John Rechy
 
23. Myra Breckinridge/Myron (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Gore Vidal
 
24.
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Patience & Sarah
by Isabel Miller
 
25. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
 
26. Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Truman Capote
 
27. The Bostonians (English Library)
by Henry James
 
28.
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Two Serious Ladies
by Jane Bowles
 
29. Bastard out of Carolina (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)
by Dorothy Allison
 
30. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by CARSON MCCULLERS
 
31. Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
 
32. The Persian Boy
by Mary Renault
 
33. A Single Man
by Christopher Isherwood
 
34. Swimming Pool Library
by Alan Hollinghurst
 
35.
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Olivia
by Dorothy Bussy
 
36. The Price of Salt
by Patricia Highsmith
 
37. Aquamarine
by Carol Anshaw
 
38. Another Country
by James Baldwin
 
39.
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Cheri
by Sidonie­Gabrielle Colette
 
40. The Turn of Screw
by Henry James
 
41. The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
 
42. Women in Love (Modern Library Classics)  
43. Little Women (Penguin Classics)
by Louisa May Alcott
 
44. The Friendly Young Ladies
by Mary Renault
 
45.
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YOUNG TORLESS
by Robert musil
 
46.
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Eustace Chisholm and the Works
by Purdy
 
47.
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The story of Harold;: A novel
by Terry Andrews
 
48.
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The Gallery (The Arbor House Library of Contemporary Americana)
by John Horne Burns
 
49. Sister Gin
by June Arnold
 
50.
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Ready to catch him should he fall (90s)
by Neil Bartlett
 
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