50 best gay books

AfterElton posted a list of the best gay books, as chosen by their readers. And again, I failed miserably. HAHAHAHA. At least I got more things crossed out there than on the music list. :)

On the bright side, I have an excuse to expand my library.

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Update (2008.11.28). Here's the list. Apparently I was wrong: I fared better in the music list after all. Boo!

The items crossed out are the ones I own and have read, borrowed and have read, or own but yet to read. :) I was tempted to cross out those that have been made to movies I watched (The Hours, Mysterious Skin), but that'll be cheating. Hehe!

BTW, I just realized that Michael Thomas Ford wasn't included in this list. Hm.

1. Tales Of The City by Armistead Maupin
2. Maurice by E. M. Forster
3. The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren
4. At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
5. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
6. Hero by Perry Moore
7. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
8. Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
9. A Home At The End of the World by Michael Cunningham
10. Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
11. Dancer From the Dance by Andrew Holleran
12. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
13. Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman
14. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
15. The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
16. And The Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
17. The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
18. The Amazing Adventure of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
19. Running With Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
20. Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim
21. A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
22. The Charioteer by Mary Renault
23. Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley
24. A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice
25. The Catch Trap by Marion Zimmer Bradley
26. Naked by David Sedaris
27. The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt
28. Vintage by Steve Berman
29. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
30. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
31. How Long Has This Been Going On by Ethan Mordden
32. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
33. A Cage of Bones by Jeffrey Round
34. The P-Town Murders by Jeffery Round
35. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
36. Like People in History by Felice Picano
37. Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette
38. Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
39. Rainbow High by Alex Sanchez
40. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
41. Angels in America by Tony Kushner
42. Almost Like Being In Love by Steve Kluger
43. The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo
44. How I Paid For College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater by Marc Acito
45. City of Night by John Rechy
46. Best Little Boy in the World by Andrew Tobias
47. As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
48. The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story by Peter Lefcourt
49. Comfort & Joy by Jim Grimsley
50. A Better Place by Mark A. Roeder