Top 100 Gay Novels
Final Position
Title and Author
Year
1
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
2000
2
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
2002
3
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
2004
4
The Master by Colm Toibin
2004
5
Shadows Return by Lynn Flewelling
2008
6
Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff
2005
7
Melusine by Sarah Monette
2005
8
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron
2007
9
Hero by Perry Moore
2007
10
Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman
2007
11
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
2003
12
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
2001
13
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
2007
14
Havemercy by Jaida Jones & Danielle Bennett
2008
15
All Through the Night by Suzanne Brockmann
2007
16
How I Paid for College by Marc Acito
2005
17
Carnival by Elizabeth Bear
2006
18
The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd
2009
19
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
2003
20
Liquor by Poppy Z. Brite
2004
21
A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice
2000
22
The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman
2002
23
Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
2003
24
Freak Show by James St. James
2007
25
Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
2001
26
The Last Exit to Normal by Michael Harmon
2008
27
False Colors by Alex Beecroft
2008
28
Sprout by Dale Peck
2009
29
Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale
2007
30
Totally Joe by James Howe
2005
31
We Disappear by Scott Heim
2008
32
Alternatives to Sex by Stephen McCauley
2006
33
Tongue Tied by Richard Stevenson
2009
34
Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon
2007
35
What They Always Tell Us by Martin Wilson
2008
36
Now Is the Hour by Tom Spanbauer
2007
37
Vintage by Steve Berman
2007
38
Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger
2004
39
The Back Passage by James Lear
2006
40
Absolutely Positively Not by Mr. David LaRochelle
2005
41
The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure by Storm Constantine
2003
42
Brethren: Raised By Wolves by W. A. Hoffman
2006
43
The Married Man by Edmund White
2000
44
Scarlet and the White Wolf by Kirby Crow
2008
45
Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsberg
2008
46
Leave Myself Behind by Bart Yates
2004
47
The Tin Star by J. L. Langley
2006
48
A Strong and Sudden Thaw by R. W. Day
2006
49
Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany
2007
50
A Bit of Rough by Laura Baumbach
2007
51
The Assignment by Evangeline Anderson
2008
52
The World of Normal Boys by K. M. Soehnlein
2000
53
The First Verse by Barry McCrea
2005
54
Fatal Shadows by Josh Lanyon
2007
55
The Sluts by Dennis Cooper
2005
56
Saints of Augustine by P.E. Ryan
2007
57
Not a Day Goes By by E. Lynn Harris
2000
58
Band Fags! by Frank Anthony Polito
2008
59
A Secret Edge by Robin Reardon
2007
60
The God Eaters by Jesse Hajicek
2006
61
The Coming Storm by Paul Russell
2000
62
The Year of Ice by Brian Malloy
2002
63
Standish by Erastes
2006
64
Tale of Two Summers by Brian Sloan
2006
65
Oleander House by Ally Blue
2007
66
Comfort and Joy by Jim Grimsley
2000
67
Looking For It by Michael Thomas Ford
2005
68
Point of Dreams by Melissa Scott
2001
69
Dishes by Rich Wallace
2008
70
The Notorious Dr. August by Christopher Bram
2000
71
The Straight Road to Kylie by Nico Medina
2007
72
The Good Neighbor by Jay Quinn
2007
73
A Son Called Gabriel by Damian McNicholl
2004
74
The Abomination by Paul Golding
2000
75
Nothing Pink by Mark Hardy
2008
76
Falling by M. L. Rhodes
2007
77
Ransom by Lee Rowan
2006
78
Vampire Vow by Michael Schiefelbein
2001
79
Clay's Way by Blair Mastbaum
2004
80
Soul Mates: Bound by Blood by Jourdan Lane
2007
81
Bareback by Chris Owen
2003
82
PsyCop: Partners by Jordan Castillo Price
2006
83
Breakfast with Scot by Michael Downing
2000
84
A Young Man's Passage by Julian Clary
2000
85
Half-Life by Aaron Krach
2004
86
The Phoenix by Ruth Sims
2004
87
Edinburgh by Alexander Chee
2001
88
Lawnboy by Paul Lisicky
2006
89
The Price of Temptation by M. J. Pearson
2005
90
The Trouble Boy by Tom Dolby
2004
91
Man About Town by Mark Merlis
2004
92
Strings Attached by Nick Nolan
2006
93
Where The Boys Are by William J. Mann
2003
94
Avoidance by Michael Lowenthal
2002
95
Shameless by Paul Burston
2004
96
Selfish and Perverse by Bob Smith
2007
97
My Best Man by Andy Schell
2000
98
Desert Sons by Mark Kendrick
2001
99
Faith for Beginners by Aaron Hamburger
2005
100
Latter Days by C. Jay Cox
2004
101
Bourbon Street Blues by Greg Herren
2003
102
Someone Killed His Boyfriend by David Stukas
2001
103
Every Man For Himself by Orland Outland
2000
104
He's The One by Timothy James Beck
2003
105
On Fire by Drew Zachary
2006
106
Common Sons by Ronald L. Donaghe
2000
107
The Master of Seacliff by Max Pierce
2006
108
Can't Buy Me Love by Chris Kenry
2001
109
Letters to Montgomery Clift by Noel Alumit
2002
110
Tricks of the Trade by Ben Tyler
2001
111
Bound In Blood by David Thomas Lord
2001
112
The Haunted Hillbilly by Derek McCormack
2004
113
Any Kind Of Luck by William Jack Sibley
2001
114
Hot Sauce by Scott Pomfret & Scott Whittier
2005
115
No Going Home by T. A. Chase
2006
116
A Better Place by Mark A. Roeder
2001
117
What We Do Is Secret by Kief Hillsbery
2005
118
Suspension by Robert Westfield
2002
119
Mahu by Neil S. Plakcy
2005
120
Three Day Passes by Sean Michael
2003
121
Daytime Drama by Dave Benbow
2003
122
The Night We Met by Rob Byrnes
2003