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
Melusine by Sarah Monette
7
Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff
8
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
9
Hero by Perry Moore
10
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron
11
Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman
12
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
13
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
14
How I Paid for College by Marc Acito
15
Havemercy by Jaida Jones & Danielle Bennett
16
All Through the Night by Suzanne Brockmann
17
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
18
A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice
19
Carnival by Elizabeth Bear
20
The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman
21
Liquor by Poppy Z. Brite
22
The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd
23
Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
24
Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
25
Freak Show by James St. James
26
King of the Screwups by K.L. Going
27
Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger
28
The Last Exit to Normal by Michael Harmon
29
Sprout by Dale Peck
30
Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale
31
The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy by Robert Leleux
32
Totally Joe by James Howe
33
Alternatives to Sex by Stephen McCauley
34
False Colors by Alex Beecroft
35
We Disappear by Scott Heim
36
Two Parties, One Tux, and a Very Short Film about The Grapes of Wrath by Steven Goldman
37
Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon
38
Absolutely Positively Not by Mr. David LaRochelle
39
The Married Man by Edmund White
40
Now Is the Hour by Tom Spanbauer
41
The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure by Storm Constantine
42
Vintage by Steve Berman
43
The Back Passage by James Lear
44
What They Always Tell Us by Martin Wilson
45
Scarlet and the White Wolf by Kirby Crow
46
A Strong and Sudden Thaw by R. W. Day
47
Leave Myself Behind by Bart Yates
48
Another Kind of Cowboy by Susan Juby
49
Becoming Chloe by Catherine Ryan Hyde
50
The Tin Star by J. L. Langley
51
The World of Normal Boys by K. M. Soehnlein
52
Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsberg
53
Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany
54
Not a Day Goes By by E. Lynn Harris
55
David Inside Out by Lee Bantle
56
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai
57
The First Verse by Barry McCrea
58
Fatal Shadows by Josh Lanyon
59
The Coming Storm by Paul Russell
60
The God Eaters by Jesse Hajicek
61
The Year of Ice by Brian Malloy
62
A Bit of Rough by Laura Baumbach
63
The Assignment by Evangeline Anderson
64
Tongue Tied by Richard Stevenson
65
The Sluts by Dennis Cooper
66
Comfort and Joy by Jim Grimsley
67
Saints of Augustine by P.E. Ryan
68
7 Days at the Hot Corner by Terry Trueman
69
Freaks and Revelations by Davida Wills Hurwin
70
Looking For It by Michael Thomas Ford
71
Point of Dreams by Melissa Scott
72
Blue Boy by Rakesh Satyal
73
Tale of Two Summers by Brian Sloan
74
A Secret Edge by Robin Reardon
75
The Notorious Dr. August by Christopher Bram
76
Standish by Erastes
77
When I Knew by Robert Trachtenberg
78
Band Fags! by Frank Anthony Polito
79
The Abomination by Paul Golding
80
A Son Called Gabriel by Damian McNicholl
81
Brethren: Raised By Wolves by W. A. Hoffman
82
Oleander House by Ally Blue
83
Vampire Vow by Michael Schiefelbein
84
Breakfast with Scot by Michael Downing
85
Bareback by Chris Owen
86
Edinburgh by Alexander Chee
87
Ransom by Lee Rowan
88
The Phoenix by Ruth Sims
89
Nothing Pink by Mark Hardy
90
Clay's Way by Blair Mastbaum
91
Half-Life by Aaron Krach
92
Amuse Bouche by Anthony Bidulka
93
The Straight Road to Kylie by Nico Medina
94
Dishes by Rich Wallace
95
A Young Man's Passage by Julian Clary
96
PsyCop: Partners by Jordan Castillo Price
97
Soul Mates: Bound by Blood by Jourdan Lane
98
The Manny Files by Christian Burch
99
Avoidance by Michael Lowenthal
100
Man About Town by Mark Merlis
101
Where The Boys Are by William J. Mann
102
The Price of Temptation by M. J. Pearson
103
Falling by M. L. Rhodes
104
Lawnboy by Paul Lisicky
105
The Trouble Boy by Tom Dolby
106
My Best Man by Andy Schell
107
Desert Sons by Mark Kendrick
108
The Good Neighbor by Jay Quinn
109
Bourbon Street Blues by Greg Herren
110
Shameless by Paul Burston
111
Someone Killed His Boyfriend by David Stukas
112
Every Man For Himself by Orland Outland
113
Strings Attached by Nick Nolan
114
Mind Fuck by Manna Francis
115
America's Boy by Wade Rouse
116
Latter Days by C. Jay Cox
117
He's The One by Timothy James Beck
118
Faith for Beginners by Aaron Hamburger
119
Tricks of the Trade by Ben Tyler
120
Selfish and Perverse by Bob Smith
121
Can't Buy Me Love by Chris Kenry
122
Common Sons by Ronald L. Donaghe
123
Letters to Montgomery Clift by Noel Alumit
124
Bound In Blood by David Thomas Lord
125
Any Kind Of Luck by William Jack Sibley
126
Love & Sex by Michael Cart
127
A Better Place by Mark A. Roeder
128
The Haunted Hillbilly by Derek McCormack
129
On Fire by Drew Zachary
130
The Master of Seacliff by Max Pierce
131
Suspension by Robert Westfield
132
Hot Sauce by Scott Pomfret & Scott Whittier
133
The Center of the World by Andreas Steinhofel
134
Daytime Drama by Dave Benbow
135
Three Day Passes by Sean Michael
136
No Going Home by T. A. Chase
137
The Night We Met by Rob Byrnes
138
Mahu by Neil S. Plakcy
139
What We Do Is Secret by Kief Hillsbery