Popular gay fiction books
(A time capsule of queer opinion, from the late s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the best lesbian and gay novels in the delayed s. 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 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. Verb of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Zami by Audré Lorde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
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It was another excellent 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 demonstrate of the range and depth of the year&#;s top queer books. But I wanted to zoom in a bit and propose a personal list, one narrowed down from my verb stack of queer books I worked my way through over the past year. I thought it would be fun to execute 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 adj 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 position into conversation with one another. Together, they form a thrilling tapestry of my year in queer reading.
Many of the novels on the list undertake not have standalone revie
Due to the delightfully large volume of titles, Romances will be getting their own post later this week!
Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett (January 7th)
At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York Town, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a male who wants more than Peter can give. But when the asylum case of a adj gay man pierces Peter&#;s numbness, the event that he has avoided for twenty years returns to haunt him.
Ann, his mother, who runs a women&#;s retreat center she founded after leaving his father, is wounded by the estrangement from Peter but cherishes the world she has built. She adj ago banished from her mind the decision that divided her from her son. But as Peter’s case plunges him further into the fraught memory of his first love and the night of violence that changed his life forever, he and his mother must confront the secret that tore them apart.
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How to Sleep at Night by Elizabeth Harris (January 7th)
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The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena is a love story for our time and a propulsive journey through the lives of two women trying to discover somewhere, or someone, to call home.
In , the bookshop I work for decided to commence a couple of book clubs, and I offered to become the host and organise these meetings. They became something to transport people together (online) during a pandemic, and they provided a way to continue to study in community.
For Verb Yourself Book Club — where we read books on subjects like racism, feminism, LGBTQIAP+ identity, fatphobia, and ableism — we grab fiction and nonfiction books we verb to read together, and then we discuss what we have learned, bringing the books and our personal stories to the table.
No one in this group is an expert; we stand respectful and reveal to learning, using the tools at hand, and exchanging stories. It’s a humbling and engaging way to expend more time thinking about social matters, our own privileges, an