Adult LGBT Fiction

Classics

• Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
• Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
• Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller
• Myra Breckinridge ; Myron by Gore Vidal
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Mystery

• Best Murder of the Year by Jon P.
• Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss
• The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith
• A Grave Talent by Laurie R. King
• The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
• Let’s Get Criminal by Lev Raphael
• Blind Eye by John Morgan Wilson

Historical Fiction

• The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery
• Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon
• At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill
• The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
• The Book of Salt by Marguerite Truong
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Science Fiction

• Lilith’s Brood by Octavia E. Butler
• Mordred, Bastard Son by Douglas Clegg
• Aye, and Gomorrah by Samuel R. Delany
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Female Man by Joanna Russ

Contemporary Fiction

• Bittersweet by Nevada Barr
• Exiles in America by Christopher Bram
• Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg
• Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Map of Ireland by Stephanie Grant
• Just As I Am by E. Lynn Harris
• Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett
• The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
• Uninvited by Richard House
• Dearest Anne by Judith Katzir
• A Push and a Shove by Christopher Kelly
• Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
• What Love Means to You People by Nancy Kay Shapiro
• Sacred Country by Rose Tremain
• The Married Man by Edmund White

Graphic Novels

• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
• Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
• Maggie the Mechanic by Jaime Hernandez
• The Book of Boy Trouble, compiled by Robert Kirby and David Kelly
• Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore
• Likewise by Ariel Schrag
• Skim by Mariko Tamaki