Top 100 Gay Novels

Final Position	Title and Author
1	Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
2	Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
3	Three Junes by Julia Glass
4	The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
5	Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon
6	Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry
7	The Master by Colm Toibin
8	Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
9	At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
10	The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
11	Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff
12	Melusine by Sarah Monette
13	A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice
14	The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
15	The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman
16	Hero by Perry Moore
17	Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
18	The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan
19	Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
20	As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
21	Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman
22	Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron
23	Shadows Return by Lynn Flewelling
24	How I Paid for College by Marc Acito
25	Liquor by Poppy Z. Brite
26	The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
27	Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger
28	The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
29	I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
30	Carnival by Elizabeth Bear
31	All Through the Night by Suzanne Brockmann
32	Dog Years: A Memoir by Mark Doty
33	Dorian: An Imitation by Will Self
34	Dramarama by E. Lockhart
35	Havemercy by Jaida Jones & Danielle Bennett
36	The Family Man by Elinor Lipman
37	Bear Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
38	The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America by Charles Kaiser
39	Rough Music by Patrick Gale
40	The Chosen by Ricardo Pinto
41	Totally Joe by James Howe
42	The Married Man by Edmund White
43	Freak Show by James St. James
44	Tommy's Tale by Alan Cumming
45	The World of Normal Boys by K. M. Soehnlein
46	The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd
47	Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale
48	Grief by Andrew Holleran
49	The Center of the World by Andreas Steinhofel
50	The Secret Fruit of Peter Paddington by Brian Francis
51	The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure by Storm Constantine
52	Absolutely Positively Not by Mr. David LaRochelle
53	Alternatives to Sex by Stephen McCauley
54	Not a Day Goes By by E. Lynn Harris
55	King of the Screwups by K.L. Going
56	The Coming Storm by Paul Russell
57	The Year of Ice by Brian Malloy
58	Punkzilla by Adam Rapp
59	Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher
60	Leave Myself Behind by Bart Yates
61	The Last Exit to Normal by Michael Harmon
62	My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan
63	Looking For It by Michael Thomas Ford
64	Comfort and Joy by Jim Grimsley
65	The Back Passage by James Lear
66	The Tin Star by J. L. Langley
67	Lust or No Harm Done by Geoff Ryman
68	Point of Dreams by Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett
69	A Strong and Sudden Thaw by R. W. Day
70	The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy by Robert Leleux
71	Brethren: Raised By Wolves by W. A. Hoffman
72	Now Is the Hour by Tom Spanbauer
73	Becoming Chloe by Catherine Ryan Hyde
74	The First Verse by Barry McCrea
75	Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon
76	Vintage by Steve Berman
77	The Notorious Dr. August by Christopher Bram
78	Mordred, Bastard Son (Mordred Trilogy) by Douglas Clegg
79	What They Always Tell Us by Martin Wilson
80	The God Eaters by Jesse Hajicek
81	Breakfast with Tiffany: An Uncle's Memoir by Edwin John Wintle
82	The Sluts by Dennis Cooper
83	Sprout by Dale Peck
84	The Abomination by Paul Golding
85	We Disappear by Scott Heim
86	Saint Morrissey: A Portrait of This Charming Man by an Alarming Fan by Mark Simpson
87	When I Knew by Robert Trachtenberg
88	Another Kind of Cowboy by Susan Juby
89	Two Parties, One Tux, and a Very Short Film about The Grapes of Wrath by Steven Goldman
90	Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsberg
91	Fatal Shadows by Josh Lanyon
92	Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai
93	Tale of Two Summers by Brian Sloan
94	Posted To Death by Dean James
95	Vampire Vow by Michael Schiefelbein
96	A Son Called Gabriel by Damian McNicholl
97	Scarlet and the White Wolf by Kirby Crow
98	America's Boy by Wade Rouse
99	Amuse Bouche by Anthony Bidulka
100	Oleander House by Ally Blue
101	Bareback by Chris Owen
102	Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany
103	Standish by Erastes
104	Edinburgh by Alexander Chee
105	Blue Boy by Rakesh Satyal
106	A Secret Edge by Robin Reardon
107	Clay's Way by Blair Mastbaum
108	Breakfast with Scot by Michael Downing
109	False Colors by Alex Beecroft
110	A Bit of Rough by Laura Baumbach
111	Every Nine Seconds: A Queer as Folk Novel by Joseph Brockton
112	The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity by Daniel Mendelsohn
113	Saints of Augustine by P.E. Ryan
114	7 Days at the Hot Corner by Terry Trueman
115	Freaks and Revelations by Davida Wills Hurwin
116	The Phoenix by Ruth Sims
117	The Assignment by Evangeline Anderson
118	Rag and Bone by Michael Nava
119	American Writers at Home by J. D. McClatchy
120	Ransom by Lee Rowan
121	Half-Life by Aaron Krach
122	In the Absence of Men by Philippe Besson
123	The Kiss Murder by Mehmet Murat Somer
124	The Price of Temptation by M. J. Pearson
125	A Young Man's Passage by Julian Clary
126	Out of the Closet and Nothing to Wear by Leslea Newman
127	The Trouble Boy by Tom Dolby
128	Latter Days by C. Jay Cox
129	Avoidance by Michael Lowenthal
130	Desert Sons by Mark Kendrick
131	Bourbon Street Blues by Greg Herren
132	Where The Boys Are by William J. Mann
133	Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett
134	Going the Other Way: Lessons from a Life In and Out of Major League Baseball by Billy Bean
135	Frontiers by Michael Jensen
136	David Inside Out by Lee Bantle
137	Metes and Bounds by Jay Quinn
138	Lawnboy by Paul Lisicky
139	Fortunes Of War by Mel Keegan
140	Man About Town by Mark Merlis
141	PsyCop: Partners by Jordan Castillo Price
142	Venus as a Boy by Luke Sutherland
143	The Manny Files by Christian Burch
144	A Perfect Waiter by Alain Claude Sulzer
145	Lake Overturn by Vestal Mcintyre
146	He's The One by Timothy James Beck
147	Shameless by Paul Burston
148	Jeremy Thrane by Kate Christensen
149	Fool's Errand by Louis Bayard
150	Zero at the Bone by Jane Seville
151	Band Fags! by Frank Anthony Polito
152	Gay Haiku by Joel Derfner
153	Someone Killed His Boyfriend by David Stukas
154	Hornito: My Lie Life by Mike Albo
155	My Best Man by Andy Schell
156	Can't Buy Me Love by Chris Kenry
157	Name Games by Michael Craft
158	Faith & Fidelity by Tere Michaels
159	Tigers and Devils by Sean Kennedy
160	Crossing Borders by Z.A. Maxfield
161	Mind Fuck by Manna Francis
162	Collision Course by K.A. Mitchell
163	Letters to Montgomery Clift by Noel Alumit
164	Every Man For Himself by Orland Outland
165	Caught Running by Madeleine Urban & Abigail Roux
166	Faith for Beginners by Aaron Hamburger
167	The Summer They Came by William Storandt
168	Tricks of the Trade by Ben Tyler
169	Fixer Chao by Han Ong
170	Men Like That: A Southern Queer History by John Howard
171	The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You by S. Bear Bergman
172	Soul Mates: Bound by Blood by Jourdan Lane
173	The Straight Road to Kylie by Nico Medina
174	Common Sons by Ronald L. Donaghe
175	Selfish and Perverse by Bob Smith
176	Design Flaws of the Human Condition by Paul Schmidtberger
177	50 Ways of Saying Fabulous by Graeme Aitken
178	One Dead Drag Queen by Mark Richard Zubro
179	The Death of a Constant Lover by Lev Raphael
180	Nothing Pink by Mark Hardy
181	Easter by Michael Arditti
182	Falling by M. L. Rhodes
183	Tongue Tied by Richard Stevenson
184	The Actor's Guide To Murder by Rick Copp
185	Bitch Goddess by Robert Rodi
186	Limits of Justice by John Morgan Wilson
187	What Love Means to You People by NancyKay Shapiro
188	Everything I Have Is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men About More-or-Less Gay Life by Wendell Ricketts
189	Any Kind Of Luck by William Jack Sibley
190	Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin
191	Broadway Nights: A Romp of Life, Love, and Musical Theatre by Seth Rudetsky
192	The Music of Your Life: Stories by John Rowell
193	Whose Song?: And Other Stories by Thomas Glave
194	The Coming of the Night by John Rechy
195	On Fire by Drew Zachary
196	Three Day Passes by Sean Michael
197	Bound In Blood by David Thomas Lord
198	My Tender Matador by Pedro Lemebel
199	Guess Again by Bernard Cooper
200	Queer Fear: Gay Horror Fiction by Michael Rowe
	No Going Home by T. A. Chase
	Dishes by Rich Wallace
	A Better Place by Mark A. Roeder
	Talking In The Dark by Billy Merrell
	Bad Case of Loving You by Laney Cairo
	Love & Sex by Michael Cart
	The Haunted Hillbilly by Derek McCormack
	Daytime Drama by Dave Benbow
	The Master of Seacliff by Max Pierce
	Suspension by Robert Westfield
	Hot Sauce by Scott Pomfret & Scott Whittier
	The Night We Met by Rob Byrnes
	What We Do Is Secret by Kief Hillsbery
	Mahu by Neil S. Plakcy