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The Charioteer by Mary RenaultPurgatory by Jeff MannAt Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
Best Gay Romance in Times of War
126 books — 227 voters
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Big Page Count, Epic Historical Fiction
207 books — 230 voters

A Hazard of New Fortunes by William Dean HowellsA Modern Instance by William Dean HowellsThe Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean HowellsThe Earth by Émile ZolaThe Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Best Books of the Decade: 1880s
369 books — 423 voters
The Tenants of Time by Thomas FlanaganWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyAngle of Repose by Wallace StegnerThe Year of the French by Thomas FlanaganAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Historical Fiction that GUYS like, too!
612 books — 273 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueA Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
WWI: The Great War (Historical Fiction)
593 books — 410 voters
The Charioteer by Mary RenaultAt Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'NeillThe Boy Who Picked the Bullets Up by Charles NelsonPurgatory by Jeff MannThe Debacle by Émile Zola
Best Gay Historical Fiction
400 books — 597 voters

Tales of the City by Armistead MaupinMaurice by E.M. ForsterA Single Man by Christopher IsherwoodGiovanni’s Room by James BaldwinThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Gay Fiction by Men
577 books — 253 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryRoots by Alex Haley
Best Historical Fiction
8,313 books — 27,412 voters

A Summer Place by Sloan WilsonExodus by Leon UrisBy Love Possessed by James Gould CozzensPeyton Place by Grace MetaliousAdvise and Consent by Allen Drury
Fiction: 1950s
38 books — 5 voters
The Raj Quartet by Paul ScottThe Rains Came by Louis BromfieldNightrunners of Bengal by John MastersBhowani Junction by John Masters
Tales of the Raj
110 books — 32 voters

Kim by Rudyard KiplingThe Raj Quartet by Paul Scott
India
1,041 books — 892 voters
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska OrczyScaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Swashbucklers
584 books — 514 voters

By Love Possessed by James Gould CozzensA Hazard of New Fortunes by William Dean HowellsAndersonville by MacKinlay KantorPeyton Place by Grace MetaliousThe Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie Jr.
The Great American Novel
674 books — 1,114 voters
Maurice by E.M. ForsterAt Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'NeillThe Charioteer by Mary Renault
Best Gay Historical Romance
926 books — 1,542 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaEthan Frome by Edith WhartonSons and Lovers by D.H. LawrenceDeath in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas MannThe Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
524 books — 781 voters
1984 by George OrwellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasAnimal Farm by George OrwellLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
Must Read Classics
1,901 books — 4,784 voters

A Hazard of New Fortunes by William Dean Howells
Best Books of the Decade: 1890s
496 books — 512 voters
The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean HowellsA Hazard of New Fortunes by William Dean HowellsUncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher StoweMcTeague by Frank NorrisSister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Nineteenth Century American List
32 books — 30 voters

The Absolutist by John BoyneThe German by Lee ThomasThe Zhivago Affair by Peter FinnGalileo's Middle Finger by Alice Domurat DregerThe Tenants of Time by Thomas Flanagan
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,777 books — 70,334 voters
Maurice by E.M. ForsterThe Charioteer by Mary RenaultThe Line of Beauty by Alan HollinghurstDancer from the Dance by Andrew HolleranThe Story of the Night by Colm Tóibín
Smart LGBTQ Literature
52 books — 47 voters

In the Absence of Men by Philippe BessonThe German by Lee ThomasThe Fall of Valor by Charles JacksonThe Leather Boys by Eliot GeorgeA Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
Best Gay Fiction
2,745 books — 3,934 voters
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher StoweThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeRoots by Alex HaleyMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Best Books Ever
79,990 books — 297,750 voters