Gay and Lesbian Themes

Lesbian Fiction
Odd Girl Out by Bannon, Ann
Rubyfruit Jungle by Brown, Rita Mae
Slammerkin by Donoghue, Emma
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Flagg, Fannie
The Well of Loneliness by Hall, Radclyffe
The Price of Salt by Highsmith, Patricia
Patience and Sarah by Miller, Isabel
Desert of the Heart by Rule, Jane
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by Sarton, May
The Night Watch by Waters, Sarah
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Winterson, Jeanette


Gay Fiction
Giovanni’s Room by Baldwin, James
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Capote, Truman
Maurice by Forster, E. M.
Dancer From the Dance by Holleran, Andrew
A Single Man by Isherwood, Christopher
Tales of the City by Maupin, Armistead
Billy Budd by Melville, Herman
The City and the Pillar by Vidal, Gore


Contemporary, Mystery, Romance…
Call Me By Your Name by Aciman, Andre
Just a Boy by Clinger, R. W.
B-Boy Blues by Hardy, James Earl
Pink by Harris, Jennifer
My Lucky Star by Keenan, Joe
Idaho Code by Opyr, Joan
A Boy’s Own Story by White, Edmund


Coming Out Memoirs
Mama’s Boy, Preacher’s Son: A Memoir of Becoming a Man by Kevin Jennings (306.76 Jen)
Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods – My Mother’s, My Father’s and Mine
by Noelle Howey (306.87 How)
My One-Night Stand with Cancer: A Memoir by Tania Katan (616.994 Kat)
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (741 Bec)
The Confession by James E. McGreevey (B McGreevey McG)
Naked by David Sedaris (B Sedaris Sed)