Amazon provides a list of authors who must mention something about gay issues in their books. There are some surprising inclusions in the list, but at least it is a good starting point.
GOOD READS
I have a list of books I have read on GOOD READS, a website you can join and list the books you have read and see books others have read. Unfortunately I can’t link you to my page unless you are a member.
Good Reads has a great list of Gay and Lesbian books too, which again I don’t think you can see unless you join. But to join is free.
But here I will tell you of some good books I have read with a gay theme. Of course this is a work in progress. At first I will list the authors then slowly add more information. Click on each author for information on their books.
I will list only the books I enjoyed. I have read some crap too, and much mediocre stuff which I will not include.
Early writers
Petronius (c.27-66AD)
* Satyricon
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
* Billy Budd
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
* A Picture of Dorian Gray
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
* Death in Venice
EM Forster (1879-1970)
* Maurice (book and movie)
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
* Brideshead Revisited (book and TV series)
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
* Goodbye to Berlin
* Mr Norris Changes Trains
Mary Renault (1905-1983)
* The Friendly Young Ladies
* The Charioteer
* The Last of the Wine
* Fire from Heaven
* The Persian Boy
Jean Genet (1910-1986)
* A Thief’s Journal
William Golding (1911 – 1993)
* Rites of Passage
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
* Another Country
Contemporary Writers
Cunningham, Michael
* A Home at the End of the World
Greenaway, Trewin
* The Cronnex
Grimsley, Jim
* Comfort and Joy
* Dream Boy
* Kirith Kirin
Hawthorne, Nan
* Beloved Pilgrim
Hollinghurst, Andrew
* The Folding Star
McCann, Maria
* As Meat Loves Salt
O’Neill, Jamie
* At Swim: Two Boys
Proulx, Annie
* Brokeback Mountain
Sims, Ruth
* ThePhoenix
* Counterpoint, Dylan’s Story
White, Edmund
* A Boy’s Own Story
* The Married Man
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