I just found this while falling down a rabbit hole. I love to illustrate lists of books, and I will get illustrations for these books. But…not yet.
5:10 am 19 June 2019
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the 100 best lesbian and gay novels
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.
Our visitors have voted. We asked for your favorite novels, and the response has been overwhelming–at times heated (We’ve posted a few). The visitor list is below, next to the Triangle’s choices.
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 Triangle’s 100 Best1. 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 by Virginia Woolf 7. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall 8. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig 9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar 10. Zami by Audré Lorde 11. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 12. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes 13. Billy Budd by Herman Melville 14. A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White 15. Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran 16. Maurice by E. M. Forster 17. The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal 18. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown 19. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 20. Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima 21. The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers 22. City of Night by John Rechy 23. Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal 24. Patience and 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 by Henry James 28. Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles 29. Bastard Out of Carolina 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. The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst 35. Olivia by Dorothy Bussy 36. The Price of Salt (Carol) by Patricia Highsmith 37. Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw 38. Another Country by James Baldwin 39. Chéri by Colette 40. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 41. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 42. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence 43. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 44. The Friendly Young Ladies (The Middle Mist) by Mary Renault 45. Young Törless by Robert Musil 46. Eustace Chisholm and the Works by James Purdy 47. The Story of Harold by Terry Andrews 48. The Gallery by John Horne Burns 49. Sister Gin by June Arnold 50. Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil Bartlett 51. Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram 52. Naked Lunch by William Burroughs 53. The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood 54. The Young and Evil by Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler 55. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson 56. A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan 57. Three Lives by Gertrude Stein 58. Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli by Ronald Firbank 59. Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman 60. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov 61. The Counterfeiters by André Gide 62. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson 63. Lover by Bertha Harris 64. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 65. La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc 66. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather 67. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 68. The Satyricon by Petronius 69. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell 70. Special Friendships by Roger Peyrefitte 71. The Changelings by Jo Sinclair 72. Paradiso by José Lezama Lima 73. Sheeper by Irving Rosenthal 74. Les Guerilleres by Monique Wittig 75. The Child Manuela (Mädchen in Uniform) by Christa Winsloe 76. An Arrow’s Flight by Mark Merlis 77. The Gaudy Image by William Talsman 78. The Exquisite Corpse by Alfred Chester 79. Was by Geoff Ryman 80. Théresè and Isabelle by Violette Leduc 81. Gemini by Michel Tournier 82. The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White 83. The Children’s Crusade by Rebecca Brown 84. The Story of the Night by Colm Toibin 85. The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles) by Jean Cocteau 86. Hell Has No Limits by José Donoso 87. Riverfinger Women by Elana Nachman (Dykewomon) 88. The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer 89. Closer by Dennis Cooper 90. Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac 91. Miss Peabody’s Inheritance by Elizabeth Jolley 92. René’s Flesh by Virgilio Piñera 93. Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai 94. Wasteland by Jo Sinclair 95. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton 96. Sea of Tranquillity by Paul Russell 97. Autobiography of a Family Photo by Jacqueline Woodson 98. In Thrall by Jane DeLynn 99. On Strike Against God by Joanna Russ 100. Sita by Kate Millett |
Our Visitors’ 100 Best
1. The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren
2. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
3. The Charioteer by Mary Renault
4. Like People in History by Felice Picano
5. Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden
6. A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
7. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
8. The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt
9. Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim
10. The Object of My Affection by Stephen McCauley
11. Faggots by Lary Kramer
12. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
13. Other Women by Lisa Alther
14. Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel Delany
15. Six of One by Rita Mae Brown
16. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues by Tom Robbins
17. Martin and John by Dale Peck
18. Querelle by Jean Genet
19. The God in Flight by Laura Argiri
20. Totem Pole by Sanford Friedman
21. Falconer by John Cheever
22. Latin Moon in Manhattan by Jaime Manrique
23. Openly Bob by Bob Smith
24. The Lord Won’t Mind by Gordon Merrick
25. The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
26. Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
27. Quatrefoil by James Barr
28. The Better Angel by Richard Meeker
29. Known Homosexual by Joseph Hanson
30. She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
31. Burning Houses by Andrew Harvey
32. The American Woman In The Chinese Hat by Carole Maso
33. Nightswimmer by Joseph Olshan
34. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
35. The Beauty of Men by Andrew Holleran
36. The Folded Leaf by William Maxwell
37. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
38. The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
39. The Sea of Light by Jenifer Levin
40. Bending at the Bow by Marion Douglas
41. Amnesty by Louise Blum
42. Hood by Emma Donoghue
43. Queer by William Burroughs
44. Funeral Rites by Jean Genet
45. The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet
46. Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima
47. The Grandmothers by Glenway Wescott
48. Scissors, Paper, Rock by Fenton Johnson
49. Just Above My Head by James Baldwin
50. Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham
51. Equal Affections by David Leavitt
52. Tim and Pete by James Robert Baker
53. Dance of the Warriors by Kevin Esser
54. Streetboy Dreams by Kevin Esser
55. Livre blanc by Jean Cocteau
56. Confession of Felix Krull by Thomas Mann
57. Pryor Rendering by Gary Reed
58. Winter Birds by Jim Grimsley
59. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
60. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
61. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
62. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton
63. Curious Wine by Katherine V. Forrest
64. In a Shallow Grave by James Purdy
65. The Unlit Lamp by Radclyffe Hall
66. Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King
67. The Wild Boys by William S. Burroughs
68. Paxton Court by Diane Salvatore
69. Quatrefoil by James Barr
70. The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
71. Hemlock and After by Angus Wilson
72. Chamber Music by Doris Grumbach
73. Ernesto by Umberto Saba
74. Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli
75. Bertram Cope’s Year by H.B. Fuller
76. Bom-Criulo by Adolfo Caminha
77. Nights in the Underground by Marie Claire Blais
78. The High Cost of Living by Marge Piercy
79. Toilet by Tom Woolley
80. Red Azalea by Anchee Min
81. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
82. Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley
83. Kissing the Witch by Emma Donohue
84. Biography of Desire by Mary Dorcey
85. Mother of the Grass by Jovette Marchessault
86. Six Chapters of a Floating Life by Shen Fu
87. The Four Winds by Gerd Brantenberg
88. China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHug