Suggested Reading
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The following list was compiled by Matthew Halse who is currently studying towards a Master's degree at
L' Université de Montréal, specialising in LGBT literature.
Gay Fiction - Teen
Shyam Selvadurai - Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
Alex Sanchez - Rainbow Boys
Alex Sanchez - Rainbow Road
Alex Sanchez - Rainbow High
Alex Sanchez- So Hard To Say
David Levithan - Boy Meets Boy
Todd Brown - Entries From a Hot Pink Notebook
Perry Moore - Hero
Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Rigoberto Gonzalez - The Mariposa Club
Gay Fiction - 17+
Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst - The Swimming Pool Library
Shyam Selvadurai - Funny Boy - from Sri Lanka - won a Lambda Award for gay male fiction
Gore Vidal - The City and the Pillar
E. M. Forster - Maurice
Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City
Edmund White - A Boy’s Own Story
Edmund White - The Beautiful Room is Empty
Augusten Burroughs - Running With Scissors
Michael Cunningham - A Home at the End of the World
Christopher Isherwood - A Single Man
James O’Neill - At Swim, Two Boys
Colm Toibin - The Master
James Baldwin - Giovanni’s Room
David Leavitt- The Lost Language of Cranes
Recent Gay Plays, Short Stories and Poetry
James Merrill- The Complete Poems
Tony Kushner - Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
Jonathan Larson- RENT
Moises Kaufman - The Laramie Project
Alberto Manguel (Ed.) - Meanwhile, In Another Part of the Forest: Gay Stories from Alice Munro to Yukio Mishima
Mark Doty - Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems
Eve Ensler - The Vagina Monologues
Lesbian Fiction - Teen
Rita Mae Brown - Rubyfruit Jungle
Rita Mae Brown - Six of One
Nancy Garden - Annie On My Mind
Lauren Myracle - Kissing Kate
Julie Anne Peters - Keeping you a Secret
Malinda Lo - Ash
Patricia Nell Warren - The Front Runner - first novel about gay lore to become popular with mainstream
Lesbian Fiction - 17 +
Sarah Waters - Tipping the Velvet - maybe not appropriate for teens - a great author though!
Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
Jeanette Winterson - Written on the Body
Jeanette Winterson - Sexing the Cherry
Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Virginia Woolf - Orlando
Zoe Whittall - Bottle Rocket Hearts
Carol Anshaw - Aquamarine
Gertrude Stein - Three Lives
Leslie Feinberg - Stone Butch Blues
Djuna Barnes - Nightwood
Transgender - Teen
Julie Anne Peters - Luna
Not categorized by age or interest but highly recommended :
Julie Anne Peters:
Keeping You a Secret
Define Normal
Far From Xanadu
grl2grl (fiction short stories)
RAGE: A Love Story
Anne-Marie MacDonald - Fall on Your Knees
Garret Freymann Weyr - My Heartbeat
Ali Smith - Girl Meets Boy
Jaclyn Friedman & Jessica Valenti - Yes Means Yes - anthology - visions of female sexual power and a world without rape
***** Allan Cumming
Tommy's Tale - highly recommended
Many thanks to Anabel Maler, and Emil Brione for their invaluable help in creating this list.
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