Year of publication is written in parentheses. In cases where the writing and publication have taken place decades apart, both years are included.
Classic Gay Fiction
- Another Country by James Baldwin
- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
- Queer by William S. Burroughs (1952/1985)
- Maurice by E.M. Forster (1914/1971)
- Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran (1978)
- The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (1988)
- The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst (1998)
- A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964)
- City of Night by John Rechy (1963)
- Numbers by John Rechy (1967)
- A Boy’s Own Story(1982) and The Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White (1988)
- Two People by Donald Windham (1965)
Classic Lesbian Fiction
- Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown (1980)
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (1987)
- The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall (1928)
Classic Queer Fiction
- Written on the Body by Jeannette Winterson
Lesbian Pulp Fiction
- Beebo Brinker by Ann Bannon (1962)
- Odd Girl Out by Ann Bannon (1957)
- I am a Woman by Ann Bannon
- Women in the Shadows by Ann Bannon
- Journey to a Woman by Ann Bannon
- Satan Was a Lesbian by Monica Roberts w/a Fred Haley
- Three Women by March Hastings (1958)
- The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith w/a Claire Morgan (1952)
- Women’s Barracks by Tereska Torres (1950)