Adult LGBT Fiction
Fiction by and/or about LGBT individuals, selected by Sara D.
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

