50 gay and lesbian books everybody must read / edited and introduced by Richard Canning.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Canning, Richard
Language:English
Published: New York : Alyson Books, 2009.
Edition:First Alyson Books edition.
Subjects:
Gay people's writings > History and criticism.
Homosexuality in literature.
Homosexuality and literature.
Books and reading.
Physical Description:xviii, 342 pages ; 21 cm
Variant Title:
Fifty gay and lesbian books everybody must read.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Richard Canning
  • Samuel and 2 Samuel (after 960 BC) / Aaron Hamburger
  • Gilgamesh (between 668 and 627 BC) / David McConnell
  • Poems (c. 600 BC), Sappho / Maureen Duffy
  • The symposium (c. 384 BC), Plato / Shaun Levin
  • Letters (1798 and later), Horace Walpole / Duncan Fallowell
  • Moby Dick (1851), Herman Melville / Vestal McIntyre
  • Leaves of grass (1855 and later), Walt Whitman / Philip Clark
  • A season in hell = Une saison en enfer (1873), Arthur Rimbaud / Kevin Killian
  • The Bostonians (1866), Henry James / Regina Marler
  • A Shropshire lad (1896), A.E. Housman / Mark Merlis
  • De Profundis (1895-97, published 1905 and 1962), Oscar Wilde / Fenton Johnson
  • Claudine at school = Claudine à l'école (1900), Colette / Alison Smith
  • Death in Venice = Tod in Venedig (1912), Thomas Mann / Christopher Bram
  • The flower beneath the foot (1923), Ronald Firbank / Brian Bouldrey
  • Mrs. Dalloway (1925), Virginia Woolf / Jane DeLynn
  • Time regained = Le temps retrouvé (1927), Marcel Proust / Felice Picano
  • More women than men (1933), Ivy Compton-Burnett / Lisa Cohen
  • Poems (1935 and later), Constantine Cavafy / David Plante
  • Nightwood (1936), Djuna Barnes / Eric Karl Anderson
  • The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1922-41; 1985), Vita Sackville-West / Carol Anshaw
  • Brideshead revisited (1945), Evelyn Waugh / Bob Smith
  • Memoirs of Hadrian = Mémoires d'Hadrien (1951), Marguerite Yourcenar / Edmund White
  • Carol: The price of salt (1952), Patricia Highsmith / Stella Duffy
  • In the making (1952), G.F. Green / Peter Parker
  • Forbidden colors (1953), Yukio Mishima / Randall Kenan
  • Howl and other poems (1956), Allen Ginsberg / David Bergman
  • Giovanni's room (1956), James Baldwin / Douglas A. Martin
  • First love and other sorrows: stories (1958), Harold Brodkey / Noel Alumit
  • A taste of honey (1958), Shelagh Delaney / John Weir
  • A single man (1964), Christopher Isherwood / Patrick Ryan
  • Paradiso (1966), José Lezama Lima / RIchard Reitsma
  • Eustace Chisholm and the works (1967), James Purdy / Jonathan Franzen
  • My father and myself (1968), J.R. Ackerley / Andrew Holleran
  • Betrayed by Rita Hayworth = La traicion de Rita Hayworth (1968), Mañuel Puig / R. Zamora Linmark
  • The wild boys: a book of the dead (1971), William Burroughs / Kathy Acker
  • The Persian boy (1972), Mary Renault / Jim Grimsley
  • Too much flesh and Jabez (1977), Coleman Dowell / Bradley Craft
  • Dancer from the dance (1978), Andrew Holleran / Matias Viegener
  • The cancer journals (1980), Audre Lorde / Tania Katan
  • The color purple (1982), Alice Walker / Mark Behr
  • A boy's own story (1983), Edmund White / Robert Glück
  • Oranges are not the only fruit (1985), Jeanette Winterson / V.G. Lee
  • To the friend who did not save my life = A l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie (1990), Hervé Guibert / Alistair McCartney
  • The terrible girls (1990), Rebecca Brown / Carol Guess
  • The man who fell in love with the moon (1991), Tom Spanbauer / Larry Duplechan
  • Take me to Paris, Johnny (1993), John Foster / Rob Beeston
  • Palimpsest (1995), Gore Vidal / Paul Reidinger
  • Allan Stein (1999), Matthew Stadler / Blair Mastbaum
  • Ghost dance (2004), Douglas Wright / Richard Canning
  • Burning dreams (2006), Susan Smith / J.D. Glass.