Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/81599622-liam-ostermann">Liam Ostermann</a> (108 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Liam Ostermann (108 Lists)

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

Down by the River by Edna O'Brien

Novels with Rape as a Theme

149 books — 34 voters

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

Son of Man by Augusto Roa Bastos

A Son Called Gabriel by Damian McNicholl

353 books — 50 voters

We Ate the Children Last by Yann Martel

Aesop’s Fables by Aesop

The Demi-Urge by Thomas M. Disch

Reginald on Christmas Presents by Saki

Reginald's Christmas Revel by Saki

Flash Fiction The Shortest Of The Short Stories

112 books — 11 voters

Denied, Detained, Deported by Ann Bausum

The Beast by Óscar Martínez

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer

Solito by Javier Zamora

Refugee/Immigrant/Asylee Non Fiction

293 books — 72 voters

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Voices of Freedom by Henry Hampton

About a Boy by Nick Hornby

'80s and '90s Nostalgia

372 books — 51 voters

The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood

The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

1,591 books — 138 voters

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

The Tailor of Panama by John le Carré

A Small Town in Germany by John le Carré

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

568 books — 159 voters

Nights in Aruba by Andrew Holleran

Books Set in or Mentioning Aruba

16 books — 2 voters

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

The Book of Salt by Monique Truong

The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Books by Vietnamese/Vietnamese-Diaspora Writers

154 books — 72 voters

Catalina by Markus Orths

Women who Dressed As Men

175 books — 54 voters

Agostino by Alberto Moravia

Byron and Greek Love by Louis Crompton

The Greeks & Greek Love by James Davidson

The Harness Room by L.P. Hartley

Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim

Books about boys and men

42 books — 8 voters

Dangerous Moonlight by Mel Keegan

Fortunes of War by Mel Keegan

Street Lavender by Chris Hunt

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

An East Wind Blowing by Mel Keegan

Best Gay Historical Fiction

376 books — 576 voters

The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West

The Cornerstone by Zoé Oldenbourg

Playing the Game by Ian Buruma

The Road to Jerusalem by Jan Guillou

The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock

Recommended Historical Fiction

3,698 books — 3,643 voters

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

The Other by Thomas Tryon

The Cornerstone by Zoé Oldenbourg

Last Love in Constantinople by Milorad Pavić

Candido or A Dream Dreamed in Sicily by Leonardo Sciascia

Historical Gems from the Past

551 books — 323 voters

Sea of Tranquillity by Paul Russell

The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

A Good School by Richard Yates

Au revoir, les enfants by Louis Malle

The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson

Masturbation in Fiction

157 books — 21 voters

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Religious Characters

478 books — 62 voters

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon

The Sergeant by Dennis Murphy

Boys of Life by Paul Russell

Plays Well with Others by Allan Gurganus

The Fall of Valor by Charles Jackson

Q is for Questioning

53 books — 16 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Books Made into Movies

1,103 books — 448 voters

Derricks by James Barr

Never the Same Again by Gerald Tesch

A Sand Fortress by John Coriolan

Strange Brother by Blair Niles

The Magnificent Maricon by William Charles Spatari

Gay Pulp Fiction - Vintage

94 books — 7 voters

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag

Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave

Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited by Andrew Holleran

Koolaids by Rabih Alameddine

Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman

Best Books about HIV/AIDS (Fiction and Non-Fiction)

344 books — 229 voters

The Empire of the Senses by Alexis Landau

Books with Haircut Scenes

155 books — 25 voters

The Men with the Pink Triangle by Heinz Heger

Gay New York by George Chauncey

Homosexuality and Civilization by Louis Crompton

The Celluloid Closet by Vito Russo

Strangers by Graham Robb

512 books — 140 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Best Books Under 200 Pages

952 books — 426 voters

Day Boy by Trent Jamieson

The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaitre

International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2017

136 books — 15 voters

From Here to Eternity by James Jones

Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

What Happened to Mr. Forster? by Gary W. Bargar

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Fiction Books With Harshly Judged Characters

171 books — 43 voters

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

Favorite books from my childhood

4,434 books — 7,445 voters

Opium by Jean Cocteau

אימפריום by Christian Kracht

A Bohemian Youth by Josef Hiršal

The Ratcatcher by Marina Tsvetaeva

ביצות by André Gide

Unhinged: The Ultimate Guide to Mind-Melting Literature

100 books — 2 voters

Dance on My Grave by Aidan Chambers

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

The Toll Bridge by Aidan Chambers

Face by Benjamin Zephaniah

Two of Us by Leslie Stewart

20th Century YA Set in England

279 books — 8 voters

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter

REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS

260 books — 364 voters

Lucifer with a Book by John Horne Burns

Parents' Day by Paul Goodman

The Western Shore by Clarkson Crane

The End of My Life by Vance Bourjaily

The Brick Foxhole by Richard Brooks

THEY WERE WHAT THEY WERE EARLY GAY FICTION 1862-1960

83 books — 2 voters

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