Dangerous Moonlight by Mel KeeganFortunes of War by Mel KeeganStreet Lavender by Chris HuntThe Lacuna by Barbara KingsolverAn East Wind Blowing by Mel Keegan
Best Gay Historical Fiction
365 books — 571 voters
The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca WestThe Cornerstone by Zoé OldenbourgPlaying the Game by Ian BurumaThe Road to Jerusalem by Jan GuillouThe Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock
Recommended Historical Fiction
3,649 books — 3,591 voters

I Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Other by Thomas TryonThe Cornerstone by Zoé OldenbourgLast Love in Constantinople by Milorad PavićCandido or A Dream Dreamed in Sicily by Leonardo Sciascia
Historical Gems from the Past
551 books — 324 voters
Sea of Tranquillity by Paul RussellThe Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan LethemA Good School by Richard YatesAu revoir, les enfants by Louis MalleThe Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson
Masturbation in Fiction
157 books — 21 voters

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughGo Tell It on the Mountain by James BaldwinInferno by Dante AlighieriBrighton Rock by Graham GreeneAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Religious Characters
477 books — 59 voters
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael ChabonThe Sergeant by Dennis MurphyBoys of Life by Paul RussellPlays Well with Others by Allan GurganusThe Fall of Valor by Charles Jackson
Q is for Questioning
53 books — 16 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenInterview with the Vampire by Anne RiceThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Godfather by Mario PuzoLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Books Made into Movies
1,098 books — 446 voters
Derricks by James  BarrNever the Same Again by Gerald TeschA Sand Fortress by John CoriolanStrange Brother by Blair NilesThe Magnificent Maricon by William Charles Spatari
Gay Pulp Fiction - Vintage
94 books — 7 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 HegerGay New York by George ChaunceyHomosexuality and Civilization by Louis CromptonThe Celluloid Closet by Vito RussoStrangers by Graham Robb
LGBTQ History
505 books — 140 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnimal Farm by George OrwellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Books Under 200 Pages
953 books — 426 voters

Dance on My Grave by Aidan ChambersI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Toll Bridge by Aidan ChambersFace by Benjamin ZephaniahTwo of Us by Leslie Stewart
20th Century YA Set in England
279 books — 8 voters
Absalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriFaust by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
261 books — 364 voters

De mannen met de roze driehoek  by Heinz HegerHow to Survive a Summer by Nick  White
Books About Camp
305 books — 53 voters

The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Gay Dads
86 books — 12 voters
A Boy's Own Story by Edmund WhiteThe Persian Boy by Mary Renault
Feels Like the First Time
322 books — 50 voters

A Boy's Own Story by Edmund WhiteThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyCinnamon Gardens by Shyam SelvaduraiThe Coming Storm by Paul RussellThe 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 MaxwellSucking Sherbet Lemons by Michael CarsonWhy We Never Danced the Charleston by Harlan GreeneThe Confessions of Danny Slocum, or, Gay Life in the Big City by George WhitmoreDhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Gay Novels From Before 1990
212 books — 17 voters
London Triptych by Jonathan KempFanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John ClelandA Country for Dying by Abdellah TaïaTrilogie sale de La Havane by Pedro Juan GutiérrezHell Has No Limits by José Donoso
Prostitution in Fiction
189 books — 20 voters

Confession d'un masque by Yukio MishimaAmbidextrous by Felice PicanoGypsy Boy by Mikey WalshLost and Found in Johannesburg by Mark Gevisser
Best Gay Memoirs
203 books — 93 voters


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