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supergee:
yonmei passes along a list of the 100 best queer novels (source not given; she notes that it slights sf). My notations:
* Have read it
** Have read it more than once
% Have read some of it
And I'll put some notes in next to the ones I've read.
* 1. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
2. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
3. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
4. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
5. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
8. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
9. Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
** 10. Zami by Audre Lorde [Audre Lorde is one of my top favorite authors, full stop. I want to be a poet/essayist of her caliber some day.]
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
12. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
13. Billy Budd by Herman Melville
14. A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
** 15. Dancer From the Dance by Andrew Holleran [This is the book I read to Jeffy when he was dying. It still makes me cry.]
16. Maurice by E.M. Forster
17. The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal
* 18. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown [Forgettable.]
19. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
20. Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
21. The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
22. City of Night by John Rechy
23. Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
* 24. Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller [A favorite of cute-poet-chick; it was sweet.]
* 25. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein [Loved it.]
26. Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
27. The Bostonians by Henry James
28. Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
% 29. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison [Couldn't get past the tension leading up to the first trauma of the book. Some day I would like to be brave enough to read this book all the way through.]
30. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
% 31. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf [I was bored silly.]
32. The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
33. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
34. The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
35. Olivia by Dorothy Bussy
36. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
37. Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw
38. Another Country by James Baldwin
39. Cheri by Colette
40. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
** 41. The Color Purple by Alice Walker [One of my favorite books of all time.]
42. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
43. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
44. The Friendly Young Ladies by Mary Renault
45. Young Torless by Robert Musil
46. Eustace Chisholm and the Works by James Purdy
47. The Story of Harold by Terry Andrews
48. The Gallery by John Horne Burns
49. Sister Gin by June Arnold
50. Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil Bartlett
51. Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram
52. Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
53. The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
54. The Young and Evil by Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler
55. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
56. A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan
57. Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
58. Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli by Ronald Firbank
* 59. Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman [This is the first book cute-poet-chick and I read together; we met Schulman and she was an annoying human being.]
60. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
61. The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide
62. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
63. Lover by Bertha Harris
* 64. Moby Dick by Herman Melville [Read it in high school.]
65. La Batarde by Violette Leduc
66. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
67. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
68. The Satyricon by Petronius
69. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
70. Special Friendships by Roger Peyrefitte
71. The Changelings by Jo Sinclair
72. Paradiso by Jose Lezama Lima
73. Sheeper by Irving Rosenthal
74. Les Guerilleres by Monique Wittig
75. The Child Manuela (Madchen in Uniform) by Christa Winsloe
76. An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis
77. The Gaudy Image by William Talsman
78. The Exquisite Corpse by Alfred Chester
79. Was by Geoff Ryman
80. Therese and Isabelle by Violette Leduc
81. Gemini by Michel Tournier
82. The Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White
83. The Children's Crusade by Rebecca Brown
84. The Story of the Night by Colm Toibin
85. The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles) by Jean Cocteau
86. Hell Has No Limits by Jose Donoso
87. Riverfinger Women by Elana Nachman (Dykewomon)
88. The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon by Tom Spanbauer
89. Closer by Dennis Cooper
90. Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac
91. Miss Peabody's Inheritance by Elizabeth Jolley
92. Rene's Flesh by Virgillio Pinera
93. Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
94. Wasteland by Jo Sinclair
95. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton
96. Sea of Tranquillity by Paul Russell
97. Autobiography of a Family Photo by Jacqueline Woodson
98. In Thrall by Jane DeLynn
99. On Strike Against God by Joanna Russ
100. Sita by Kate Millett
supergee:yonmei passes along a list of the 100 best queer novels (source not given; she notes that it slights sf). My notations: * Have read it
** Have read it more than once
% Have read some of it
And I'll put some notes in next to the ones I've read.
* 1. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
2. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
3. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
4. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
5. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
8. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
9. Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
** 10. Zami by Audre Lorde [Audre Lorde is one of my top favorite authors, full stop. I want to be a poet/essayist of her caliber some day.]
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
12. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
13. Billy Budd by Herman Melville
14. A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
** 15. Dancer From the Dance by Andrew Holleran [This is the book I read to Jeffy when he was dying. It still makes me cry.]
16. Maurice by E.M. Forster
17. The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal
* 18. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown [Forgettable.]
19. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
20. Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
21. The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
22. City of Night by John Rechy
23. Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
* 24. Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller [A favorite of cute-poet-chick; it was sweet.]
* 25. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein [Loved it.]
26. Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
27. The Bostonians by Henry James
28. Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
% 29. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison [Couldn't get past the tension leading up to the first trauma of the book. Some day I would like to be brave enough to read this book all the way through.]
30. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
% 31. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf [I was bored silly.]
32. The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
33. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
34. The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
35. Olivia by Dorothy Bussy
36. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
37. Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw
38. Another Country by James Baldwin
39. Cheri by Colette
40. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
** 41. The Color Purple by Alice Walker [One of my favorite books of all time.]
42. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
43. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
44. The Friendly Young Ladies by Mary Renault
45. Young Torless by Robert Musil
46. Eustace Chisholm and the Works by James Purdy
47. The Story of Harold by Terry Andrews
48. The Gallery by John Horne Burns
49. Sister Gin by June Arnold
50. Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil Bartlett
51. Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram
52. Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
53. The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
54. The Young and Evil by Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler
55. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
56. A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan
57. Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
58. Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli by Ronald Firbank
* 59. Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman [This is the first book cute-poet-chick and I read together; we met Schulman and she was an annoying human being.]
60. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
61. The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide
62. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
63. Lover by Bertha Harris
* 64. Moby Dick by Herman Melville [Read it in high school.]
65. La Batarde by Violette Leduc
66. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
67. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
68. The Satyricon by Petronius
69. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
70. Special Friendships by Roger Peyrefitte
71. The Changelings by Jo Sinclair
72. Paradiso by Jose Lezama Lima
73. Sheeper by Irving Rosenthal
74. Les Guerilleres by Monique Wittig
75. The Child Manuela (Madchen in Uniform) by Christa Winsloe
76. An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis
77. The Gaudy Image by William Talsman
78. The Exquisite Corpse by Alfred Chester
79. Was by Geoff Ryman
80. Therese and Isabelle by Violette Leduc
81. Gemini by Michel Tournier
82. The Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White
83. The Children's Crusade by Rebecca Brown
84. The Story of the Night by Colm Toibin
85. The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles) by Jean Cocteau
86. Hell Has No Limits by Jose Donoso
87. Riverfinger Women by Elana Nachman (Dykewomon)
88. The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon by Tom Spanbauer
89. Closer by Dennis Cooper
90. Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac
91. Miss Peabody's Inheritance by Elizabeth Jolley
92. Rene's Flesh by Virgillio Pinera
93. Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
94. Wasteland by Jo Sinclair
95. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton
96. Sea of Tranquillity by Paul Russell
97. Autobiography of a Family Photo by Jacqueline Woodson
98. In Thrall by Jane DeLynn
99. On Strike Against God by Joanna Russ
100. Sita by Kate Millett