Best gay novels
11 gay books every queer bloke should read, at least once
By Emen8, updated 2 months ago in Lifestyle / Entertainment
Whether your interest is in complex gay characters or historically poignant homosexual love stories, here are eleven gay books every queer man should read, at least once.
Here are some of the top gay books for anyone looking to lose themselves in beautifully crafted stories. This list of gay books contains some of the stories that facilitate shape our understandings of the same-sex attracted experience, our history, our loves and our families. If you have already read them all, please get in touch, I believe we may be soulmates. While you’re at it you can also review out our 6 gay fantasy novels to add to your reading list.
1. Call Me by Your Name, Andre Aciman
Many will realize the gorgeous production by the equal title, starring Timothée Chalamet, the king of the direct twinks. Well, the book it’s based on, written by the talented Andre Aciman, is equally captivating. For those unfamiliar, the novel follows 17-year-old Elio Pearlman’s summer admire affair with his father’s PhD learner, Oliver, at his family’s villa in rural northern Italy.
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It was another superb year for LGBTQ books, as evidenced by the sprawling list of 65 standout titles across every genre published by Casey Stepaniuk earlier this month. Her list is a great show of the range and depth of the year’s highest queer books. But I wanted to zoom in a bit and extend a personal list, one narrowed down from my control stack of lgbtq+ books I worked my way through over the past year. I mind it would be fun to accomplish a ranked list of the 12 queer novels that stood out to me this year. And by “fun,” I mean pleasurably agonizing. This was not an manageable list to insert together. There are several novels that almost made the cut and might even be just as worthy of a spot on the list but were nudged out for some abstract reason that would be difficult for me to perfectly explain. What I like about this final 12 is that they’re all very distinct novels from one another, even as some of them can easily be place into conversation with one another. Together, they form a thrilling tapestry of my year in queer reading.
Many of the novels on the list complete not have standalone reviews on Autostraddle yet, as I regrettably fell behind on books coverage this summer.
(A time capsule of homosexual opinion, from the adv 1990s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the 100 best lesbian and gay novels in the late 1990s. Its purpose was to broaden the appreciation of lesbian and gay literature and to promote discussion among all readers gay and straight.
The Triangle’s 100 Best
The judges who compiled this list were the writers Dorothy Allison, David Bergman, Christopher Bram, Michael Bronski, Samuel Delany, Lillian Faderman, Anthony Heilbut, M.E. Kerr, Jenifer Levin, John Loughery, Jaime Manrique, Mariana Romo-Carmona, Sarah Schulman, and Barbara Smith.
1. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
2. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
3. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
4. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
5. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
8. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
10. Zami by Audré Lorde
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
12. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
13. Billy Budd by Herman Melville
14. A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White
15. Dancer from the Dance by A
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