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Lesbian and Gay Fiction

Not to Be Missed Mysteries Classics

AA=African American
* part of a series

Not to be Missed Lesbian Fiction

Barr, Nevada

Bittersweet
A love story

Blackman, Marci

Po Man's Child
In your face (AA)

Carrera, Juliet

Inside Out
Love triangle

D'Erasmo, Stacey

Tea: A Novel
Literary coming of age

Donoghue, Emma

Hood
Irish reminiscence

Gordon, Jaimy

Bogeywoman
Coming of age

Griffith, Nicola

Slow River
Science fiction

Hucklenbroich, Frankie

A Crystal Diary
Butch survival

McCloy, Kristin

Some Girls
NY lesbian scene

Obejas, Achy

Memory Mambo
Latina in Chicago

Schwab, Rochelle

In a Family Way
Lesbian parenting

Summer, Jane

The Silk Road
Seduction

Vandenberg, Margaret

An American in Paris
Gertrude Stein's Paris

Waters, Sarah

Tipping the Velvet
British historical

Youngblood, Shay

Black Girl in Paris
Self-discovery a la Baldwin (AA)

Lesbian Mysteries

Anshaw, Carol

Seven Moves
Chicago's dark side

Calloway, Kate

7th Heaven*
Cassidy James, intrigue

Clare, Baxter

Bleeding Out
L.A. Franco, LAPD

Drury, Joan

Closed in Silence*
Tyler Jones, Puget Sound

Forrest, Katherine V.

Apparition Alley*
Kate Delafield, LAPD

Fritchley, Alma

Chicken Out*
Letty Campbell, British farmer

Hart, Ellen

Merchant of Venus*
Jane Lawless, amateur sleuth

Maddison, Lauren

Deceptions
Connor Hawthorne, Southwest

McDermid, Val

Booked for Murder*
Lindsay Gordon, journalist

McNab, Claire

Death Club *
Carol Ashton, Aussie detective

Miller, Carlene

Killing at the Cat
Lexy Hyatt, crime reporter

Padgett, Abigail

Last Blue Plate Special*
Blue McCarron, psychologist

Pincus, Elizabeth

Hangdog Hustle *
Nell Fury, San Francisco detective

Redmann, Jean M

Lost Daughters*
Micky Knight, New Orleans P.I.

Scoppettone, Sandra

Gonna Take a Homicidal Journey
Lauren Laurano on vacation

Wings, Mary

She Came in Drag*
Emma Victor, San Francisco P.I.

Lesbian Classics

Allison, Dorothy

Trash
Southern stories

Brown, Rita Mae

Rubyfruit Jungle
Coming out

Feinberg, Leslie

Stone Butch Blues
Transgender

Flagg, Fannie

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
Love and laughter

Forrest, Katherine

Curious Wine
Romance

Hall, Radclyffe

Well of Loneliness
Landmark novel

Miller, Isabel

Patience and Sarah
U.S Historical

Rule, Jane

Desert of the Heart
Romance

Sinclair, April

Coffee Will Make You Black
Coming of Age (AA)

Winterson, Jeanette

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
British literary

Not to be Missed Gay Fiction
Bram, Christopher Gossip
Political intrigue
Corbin, Steven Fragments That Remain
Family (AA)
Cunningham, Michael The Hours
Gay Virginia Woolf
Grimsley, Jim Dream Boy
Adolescent love
Grobeson, Mitchell Outside the Badge
Cop thriller
Hardy, James Earl If Only for One Nite
B-Boy Blues series (AA)
Harris, E. Lynn Invisible Life
Bisexual bestseller (AA)
Hollinghurst, Alan The Spell
British love triangle
Leavitt, David Martin Bauman: Or, a Sure Thing
Literary life
Lefcourt, Peter The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story
Humorous sports romance
Lisicky, Paul Lawnboy
Sexual awakening
Gay Mysteries
Baxt, George * Queer Kind of Death
Pharoah Love, NYPD (AA)
Craft, Michael * Boy Toy
Mark Manning, reporter
Hansen,Joseph Fadeout*
Dave Brandstetter, a classic
Michaels, Grant Dead as a Doornail*
Stan Kraychik, hairdresser
Nava, Michael Rag and Bone*
Henry Rios, LA Latino
Zimmerman, R.D. Innuendo*
Todd Mills, TV reporter
Zubro, Mark One Dead Drag Queen*
Tom and Scott, partners
Gay Classics

Holleran, Andrew

Dancer from the Dance
Coming out

Kramer, Larry

Faggots
Gay ghetto satire

Maupin, Armistead

Tales of the City
San Francisco scene

Mordden, Ethan

I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore
NYC "Buddies" series

Picano, Felice

Like People in History
Fire Island to Act Up epic

Price, Reynolds

The Promise of Rest
AIDS

Puig, Manuel

Kiss of the Spider Woman
Argentine jail cell

Rechy, John

City of Night
Hustling

White, Edmund

A Boy's Own Story
Stonewall trilogy

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