List issued in June 1999 by Publishing Triangle, a group consisting of more than 250 gay and lesbian writers, editors, agents, and publishers. (http://www.quatrefoillibrary.org/materials/fiction.php)
''Death in Venice,'' Thomas Mann |
''Giovanni's Room,'' James Baldwin |
''Our Lady of the Flowers,'' Jean Genet |
''Remembrance of Things Past,'' Marcel Proust |
''The Immoralist,'' Andre Gide |
''Orlando,'' Virginia Woolf |
''The Well of Loneliness,'' Radclyffe Hall |
''Kiss of the Spider Woman,'' Manuel Puig |
''The Memoirs of Hadrian,'' Marguerite Yourcenar |
''Zami,'' Audre Lorde |
''The Picture of Dorian Gray,'' Oscar Wilde |
''Nightwood,'' Djuna Barnes |
''Billy Budd,'' Herman Melville |
''A Boy's Own Story,'' Edmund White |
''Dancer From the Dance,'' Andrew Holleran |
''Maurice,'' E.M. Forster |
''The City and the Pillar,'' Gore Vidal |
''Rubyfruit Jungle,'' Rita Mae Brown |
''Brideshead Revisited,'' Evelyn Waugh |
''Confessions of a Mask,'' Yukio Mishima |
''The Member of the Wedding,'' Carson McCullers |
''City of Night,'' John Rechy |
''Myra Breckinridge,'' Gore Vidal |
''Patience and Sarah,'' Isabel Miller. |
''The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas,''
Gertrude Stein.
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''Other Voices, Other Rooms,'' Truman Capote.
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''The Bostonians,'' Henry James.
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''Two Serious Ladies,'' Jane Bowles.
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''Bastard Out of Carolina,'' Dorothy Allison.
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''The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,'' Carson
McCullers.
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''Mrs. Dalloway,'' Virginia Woolf.
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''The Persian Boy,'' Mary Renault.
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''A Single Man,'' Christopher Isherwood.
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''The Swimming Pool Library,'' Alan Hollinghurst.
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''Olivia,'' Dorothy Bussy.
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''The Price of Salt,'' Patricia Highsmith (writing
as Claire Morgan).
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''Aquamarine,'' Carol Anshaw.
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''Another Country,'' James Baldwin.
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''Cheri,'' Colette.
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''The Turn of the Screw,'' Henry James.
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''The Color Purple,'' Alice Walker.
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''Women in Love,'' D.H. Lawrence.
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''Little Women,'' Louisa May Alcott.
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''The Friendly Young Ladies,'' Mary Renault.
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''Young Torless,'' Robert Musil.
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''Eustace Chisholm and the Works,'' James Purdy.
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''The Story of Harold,'' Terry Andrews.
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''The Gallery,'' John Horne Burns.
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''Sister Gin,'' June Arnold.
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''Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall,'' Neil
Bartlett.
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''Father of Frankenstein,'' Christopher Bram.
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''Naked Lunch,'' William Burroughs.
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''The Berlin Stories,'' Christopher Isherwood.
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''The Young and Evil,'' Charles Henri Ford and
Parker Tyler.
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''Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,'' Jeanette
Winterson.
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''A Visitation of Spirits,'' Randall Kenan.
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''Three Lives,'' Gertrude Stein.
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''Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal
Pirelli,'' Ronald Firbank.
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''Rat Bohemia,'' Sarah Schulman.
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''Pale Fire,'' Vladimir Nabokov.
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''The Counterfeiters,'' Andre Gide.
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''The Passion,'' Jeanette Winterson.
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''Lover,'' Bertha Harris.
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''Moby Dick,'' Herman Melville.
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''La Batarde,'' Violette Leduc.
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''Death Comes for the Archbishop,'' Willa Cather.
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''To Kill a Mockingbird,'' Harper Lee.
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''The Satyricon,'' Petronius.
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''The Alexandria Quartet,'' Lawrence Durrell.
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''Special Friendships,'' Roger Peyrefitte.
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''The Changelings,'' Jo Sinclair.
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''Paradiso,'' Jose Lezama Lima.
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''Sheeper,'' Irving Rosenthal.
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''Les Guerilleres,'' Monique Wittig.
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''The Child Manuela (Madchen in Uniform),''
Christa Winsloe.
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''An Arrow's Flight,'' Mark Merlis.
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''The Gaudy Image,'' William Talsman.
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''The Exquisite Corpse,'' Alfred Chester.
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''Was,'' Geoff Ryman.
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''Therese and Isabelle,'' Violette Leduc.
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''Gemini,'' Michael Tournier.
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''The Beautiful Room is Empty,'' Edmund White.
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''The Children's Crusade,'' Rebecca Brown.
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''The Story of the Night,'' Colm Toibin.
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''Les Enfants Terribles,'' Jean Cocteau.
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''Hell Has No Limits,'' Jose Donoso.
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''Riverfinger Women,'' Elana Nachman.
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''The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon,'' Tom
Spanbauer.
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''Closer,'' Dennis Cooper.
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''Lost Illusions,'' Honore de Balzac.
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''Miss Peabody's Inheritance,'' Elizabeth Jolley.
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''Rene's Flesh,'' Virgilio Pinera.
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''Funny Boy,'' Shyam Selvadurai.
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''Wasteland,'' Jo Sinclair.
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''Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing,'' May
Sarton.
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''Sea of Tranquillity,'' Paul Russell.
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''Autobiography of a Family Photo,'' Jacqueline
Woodson.
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''In Thrall,'' Jane DeLynn.
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''On Strike Against God,'' Joanna Russ.
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''Sita,'' Kate Millett. |