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