Becoming a Man by Paul MonetteCity of Night by John RechyGay New York by George ChaunceyClose to the Knives by David WojnarowiczFaggots by Larry Kramer
Gay Book Club
208 books — 11 voters
The Power Broker by Robert A. CaroThe Right Stuff by Tom WolfeThe Defining Moment by Jonathan AlterWhen We Rise by Cleve JonesDino by Nick Tosches
Best American History Books
2,215 books — 2,624 voters

The Power Broker by Robert A. CaroLow Life by Lucy SanteThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
Best History Books
3,917 books — 4,013 voters

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksHallucinations by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyBeing Mortal by Atul Gawande
Medicine and Literature
1,966 books — 2,141 voters
Giovanni’s Room by James BaldwinWe Think the World of You by J.R. Ackerley
Best Gay Fiction
2,695 books — 3,899 voters

Just Kids by Patti SmithLife by Keith RichardsThis Wheel's on Fire by Levon HelmLet's Talk About Love by Carl WilsonI Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp by Richard Hell
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,472 books — 1,385 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,267 books — 8,082 voters
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom WolfeMotherless Brooklyn by Jonathan LethemBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteJust Kids by Patti SmithLow Life by Lucy Sante
Tales of New York City
1,719 books — 1,290 voters

The Painted Bird by Jerzy KosińskiAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteLess Than Zero by Bret Easton EllisChoke by Chuck Palahniuk
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,280 books — 11,617 voters