Gay books

[Lovelace]

Hi All,

Do any of you know of decent gay fiction?

I'm not very fussy about genre, I'm a bit of bookworm, but I've only ever read one gay book before... They aren't very easy to find at the libraries, so I'm just going to buy them...

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Lovelace...

[fenris]

This is great :
"The catch trap" by marion zimmer bradley

This is good
"as meat loves salt" by maria mccann

mile:

[SlipknotRlZZ]

Would you like for it to be erotic, or not necessary? Or not at all?

[JaredEthan]

I'm currently reading 'Soon to be a major motion picture' by Warren Dunford and really enjoying it. I also like anything by Robert Rodi, and the Tales of The City series of books by Armistead Maupin.

[OrphanPip]

The standard gay canon as far as I'm concerned:

E.M. Forster - Maurice
Gore Vidal - The City and the Pillar
James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room
Edmund White - A Boy's Own Story
Andrew Holleran - Dancer from the Dance
Yukio Mishima - Confessions of a Mask (Kamen no Kokuhaku)
Reinaldo Arenas - Before Night Falls
Christopher Isherwood - Berlin Stories and A Single Man
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (have to read between the lines though), also worth reading is his letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, De Profundis.

Poetry
Alan Ginsberg
W.H. Auden

Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart isn't bad, I don't much care for his novel Faggots, but a lot of people like it.

[fredv3b]

I am afraid though quite aware of most of Pip's standard cannon I have to my discredit only read one, Giovanni's Room. I can however thoroughly recommend it.

[invis85]

Object of My Affection by Stephen McCauley. It was made into movie starring Paul Rudd & Jen Aniston. A very sweet, quirky story!

[simon]

Hi All,

Do any of you know of decent gay fiction?

I'm not very fussy about genre, I'm a bit of bookworm, but I've only ever read one gay book before... They aren't very easy to find at the libraries, so I'm just going to buy them...

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Lovelace...

check out a site called gaydarradio.co.uk very good music and it also has a section on gay films and gay book reviews,look under "entertainment" oh and have a peek at the daily male or daily drief whiile you are there :biggrin:

[marshlander]

This is my favourite independent bookshop

Gay's the Word, Gay Fiction

Just finished reading James Hannahan's first novel, God Says No, which I bought from GTW and found unputdownable.