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)