Gay Books - any recommendations?

[legs11]

Hope theres not already a thread about this, but can't see one

The local 'gay' bookshop here has closed down!!! And it seems harder to find any good gay books. The only way looks to be to order them.

I am currently reading 'Faggots' by Larry Kramer (an oldie, but I'm really enjoying it)
Recently I read 'The Wishing Game' by Patrick Redmond (absolutely brilliant story!!)

I've also read Patricia Nell Warren's 'The Front Runner' & 'Harlens Race' (both also great)

My appetite has been whetted!! Can anyone suggest any other good titles to look out for?

 

[ixthrock]

I was just blown away by a really good queer short story, "In the Quake Zone," by David Gerrold. It was in the 23rd annual Year's Best Science Fiction.

 

[Croynan]

there have been several threads on this subject - and one just recently.

try doing another search or contact the moderators and i think they can help you.

but in the mean time

The Lost Language of Cranes

Another Country (a play - dealing with two of the Cambridge Spies)

And The Band Played On - (about the AIDS crises)

The Year of Ice

Where the Rainbow Ends

Take Me Out (a play)

The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde

Gross Anatomy (a play about the three trials of Oscar Wilde)

eM.

also you might try this publisher - they specialize in books regarding homosexuality - fiction and non fiction

http://www.alyson.com/​

 

[gabriel1]

The Mayor of Castro Street - a great book about Harvey Milk.

 

[sb]

Holding The Man by Timothy Conigrave

 

[DeafFoxDemon]

i just finish read freak show, and i love it. i am reading hero by perry moore

 

[_yamato_]

I liked a book called "Southern Sissy" although I have to say
it is not for the faint-hearthed.

 

[Jersey_guy]

I loved Felice Picano's "Like People in History"

Its a great book about a relationship between 2 gay friends that spans from the 1950's to the early 90's. Its a really engrossing novel that captures gay culture through the 60's, 70's, and the tragic 80's. As a younger gay man, I loved it. It was very enlightening to read about the evolution of gay america through the crazy sex & drug fueled 60's and 70's in San Fransisco, Manhattan, and Fire Island, and makes you realize what a tragic time is was for gay people in the 1980's.
To be educated and entertained, check it out!

 

[DiverDude]

A Push and a Shove.

I'd give the author, but I'm too lazy to look it up on Amazon tonight and I left the book at work.

 

[SilverRRCloud]

I am a Hollinghurst fan and would always go for his novels first.

Bibliography and basic info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hollinghurst

SC

 

[legs11]

Wow thanks guys, that gives me a bit of home work to do. I'm sure most would still be available. You've also jolted my memory of several others I've read in the past.

Another good one that I liked was "The Arrival of Fergal Flynn" by Brian Kennedy.

 

[ZeroPoint84]

At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O'Neill

check out http://jclarkmedia.com/gaybooks/recommended.html#contemporary for a great list

 

[SFLMAN]

A Book I just finished reading from my book club is "Back Where he Started" by Jay Quinn.

It was a really great book.

 

[Linxus87]

Just finishing up Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman. Bought it two days ago, and rarely put it down. I love it. I brought this up in the other book topic.

 

[muttley]

I'm a fan of Patricia Cornwell, not particularly gay books but a gay author.

 

[syntax]

I second Hollinghurst. He's veddy, veddy British, but a good storyteller and prominent gay novelist.

Jean Genet's "Our Lady of the Flowers" is a classic and one of my personal favorites.

The Ripley mysteries by Patricia Highsmith are loaded with a homosexual/homoerotic subtext which is very intriguing and alluring. She also wrote a novel with an openly lesbian love affair set in Manhattan in the 30s or 40s (?) that is notable for its frank depiction of what was still "the love that dare not speak its name." I think it's called "The Price of Salt."

 

[handyman22]

Read 'Say It Out Loud' a few months ago. A biography of Adam Sutton who was a gay cowboy and featured on Australian Story a while back.
I saw him on TV the other night where he was at Olivia Newton-John's house where he got the news of the death of Heath Ledger.

Conduct Unbecoming - Unnatural Relations - Out of Bounds all by Mike Seabrook

Novels by Gordon Merrick, I think of them as the gay equivalent of Barbara Cartland.
Light reading with 6ft blond adonis', or dark hot interesting men with great bodies, travelling round the Mediterranean.