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