Top 100 Inside Readers List

Title and Author

  1. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

  2. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

  3. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

  4. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

  5. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

  6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf

  7. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

  8. Dry by Augusten Burroughs

  9. Magical Thinking: True Stories by Augusten Burroughs

  10. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

  11. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

  12. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

  13. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

  14. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

  15. Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey

  16. Magic's Price by Mercedes Lackey

  17. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

  18. Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice

  19. Maurice by E.M. Forster

  20. Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon

  21. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

  22. A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham

  23. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

  24. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

  25. Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner

  26. Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling

  27. Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

  28. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

  29. The Persian Boy by Mary Renault

  30. Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold

  31. At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill

  32. Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite

  33. Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan

  34. Another Country by James Baldwin

  35. Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault

  36. Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block

  37. The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Holinghurst

  38. The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood

  39. Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

  40. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

  41. Melusine by Sarah Monette

  42. A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White

  43. The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide

  44. A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice

  45. Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham

  46. Angels in America by Tony Kushner

  47. Maybe the Moon by Armistead Maupin

  48. Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin

  49. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany

  50. Luna by Julie Anne Peters

  51. Smoke and Shadows by Tanya Huff

  52. The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt

  53. Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood

  54. China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh

  55. Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez

  56. Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger

  57. Geography Club by Brent Hartinger

  58. Troll by Johanna Sinisalo

  59. Hero by Perry Moore

  60. Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette

  61. The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant by Dan Savage

  62. Trash by Dorothy Allison

  63. As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann

  64. Was by Geoff Ryman

  65. The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White

  66. Liquor by Poppy Z. Brite

  67. Six of One by Rita Mae Brown

  68. The Charioteer by Mary Renault

  69. Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim

  70. Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal

  71. Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley

  72. Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran

  73. The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo

  74. Ash by Malinda Lo

  75. Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima

  76. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chancey

  77. The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp

  78. The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren

  79. Carnival by Elizabeth Bear

  80. My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park by Steve Kluger

  81. The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst

  82. The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

  83. The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal

  84. All Through the Night: A Troubleshooter Christmas by Suzanne Brockmann

  85. Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette

  86. The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer

  87. Diving Into The Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 by Adrienne Rich

  88. The Object of My Affection by Stephen McCauley

  89. The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village by Samuel R. Delany

  90. No Night Is Too Long by Ruth Rendell

  91. Catch Trap by Marion Zimmer Bradley

  92. Family Album by Danielle Steel

  93. The Orton Diaries

  94. SM 101: A Realistic Introduction by Jay Wiseman

  95. Like People in History by Felice Picano

  96. Arkansas: Three Novellas by David Leavitt

  97. The Life to Come: And Other Stories by E.M. Forster

  98. The Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram

  99. Rose of No Man's Land by Michelle Tea

  100. Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger