Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/81599622-liam-ostermann">Liam Ostermann</a> (97 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Liam Ostermann (97 Lists)

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

365 books — 571 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

3,649 books — 3,591 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 — 324 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

477 books — 59 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

1,098 books — 446 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)

339 books — 231 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

505 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

953 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

170 books — 44 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

4,421 books — 7,428 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

261 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

The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan

Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane

Troubles by J.G. Farrell

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín

Best Fiction Set in Ireland

815 books — 547 voters

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel

Best Non-Fiction Books About Books and Reading

1,036 books — 529 voters

De mannen met de roze driehoek by Heinz Heger

How to Survive a Summer by Nick White

Books About Camp

305 books — 53 voters

The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

86 books — 12 voters

A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White

The Persian Boy by Mary Renault

Feels Like the First Time

322 books — 50 voters

A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai

The Coming Storm by Paul Russell

The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis

Gay Coming-Out Fiction

230 books — 122 voters

The Carnivorous Lamb by Agustín Gómez Arcos

Little Sister's Classics (imprint)

10 books — 8 voters

The Folded Leaf by William Maxwell

Sucking Sherbet Lemons by Michael Carson

Why We Never Danced the Charleston by Harlan Greene

The Confessions of Danny Slocum, or, Gay Life in the Big City by George Whitmore

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

Gay Novels From Before 1990

212 books — 17 voters

London Triptych by Jonathan Kemp

Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland

A Country for Dying by Abdellah Taïa

Trilogie sale de La Havane by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez

Hell Has No Limits by José Donoso

Prostitution in Fiction

189 books — 20 voters

Confession d'un masque by Yukio Mishima

Ambidextrous by Felice Picano

Gypsy Boy by Mikey Walsh

Lost and Found in Johannesburg by Mark Gevisser

Best Gay Memoirs

203 books — 93 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Emma by Jane Austen

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

1000 books to read before you die- official

472 books — 25 voters

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