Gay boys books in bondage

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100 best gay and lesbian books of the (20th) century (not really; see below)

1. Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann
2. Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin
3. Our Lady of the Flowers, by Jean Genet
4. Remembrance of Things Past, by Marcel Proust
5. The Immoralist, by André Gide
6. Orlando,by Virginia Woolf
7. The Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall
8. Kiss of the Spider Woman, by Manuel Puig
9. The Memoirs of Hadrian, by Marguerite Yourcenar
10. Zami, by Audre Lorde
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
12. Nightwood, by Djuna Barnes
13. Billy Budd, by Herman Melville
14. A Boy's Own Story, by Edmund White
15. Dancer from the Dance, by Andrew Holleran
16. Maurice, by E.M. Forster
17. The City and the Pillar, by Gore Vidal
18. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
19. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
20. Confessions of a Mask, by Yukio Mishima
21. The Member of the Wedding, by Carson McCullers
22. City of Night, by John Rechy
23. Myra Breckinridge, by Gore Vidal
24. Patience and Sarah, by Isabel Miller
25. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein
26. Other Voices, Other Rooms, by Truman Capote
27. The Bostonians, by Henry James
28. Two Serious Ladies, by Jane Bowles
29. Bastard Out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison
30. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
31. Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
32. The Persian Boy, by Mary Renault
33. A Single Man, by Christopher Isherwood
34. The Swimming Pool Library, by Alan Hollinghurst
35. Olivia, by Dorothy Bussy
36. The Price of Salt, by Patricia Highsmith
37. Aquamarine, by Carol Anshaw
38. Another Country, by James Baldwin
39. Cheri, by Colette
40. The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
41. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
42. Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
43. Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott [published 1868]
44. The Friendly Young Ladies, by Mary Renault
45. Young Torless, by Robert Musil
46. Eustace Chisholm and the Works, by James Purdy
47. The Story of Harold, by Terry Andrews
48. The Gallery, by John Horne Burns
49. Sister Gin, by June Arnold
50. Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall, by Neil Bartlett
51. Father of Frankenstein, by Christopher Bram
52. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
53. The Berlin Stories, by Christopher Isherwood
54. The Young and Evil, by Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler
55. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, by Jeanette Winterson
56. A Visitation of Spirits, by Randall Kenan
57. Three Lives, by Gertrude Stein
58. Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli, by Ronald Firbank
59. Rat Bohemia, by Sarah Schulman
60. Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov
61. The Counterfeiters, by André Gide
62. The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson
63. Lover, by Bertha Harris
64. Moby Dick, by Herman Melville [1851]
65. La Batarde, by Violette Leduc
66. Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
67. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
68. The Satyricon, by Petronius
69. The Alexandria Quartet, by Lawrence Durrell
70. Special Friendships, by Roger Peyrefitte
71. The Changelings, by Jo Sinclair
72. Paradiso, by José Lezama Lima
73. Sheeper, by Irving Rosenthal
74. Les Guerilleres, by Monique Wittig
75. Child Manuela (The Novel of Maedchen in Uniform), by Christa Winsloe
76. An Arrow's Flight, by Mark Merlis
77. The Gaudy Image, by William Talsman
78. The Exquisite Corpse, by Alfred Chester
79. Was, by Geoff Ryman
80. Therese and Isabelle, by Violette Leduc
81. Gemini, by Michel Tournier
82. The Beautiful Room Is Empty, by Edmund White
83. The Children's Crusade, by Rebecca Brown
84. The Story of the Night, by Colm Tóibín
85. The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles), by Jean Cocteau
86. Hell Has No Limits, by José Donoso
87. Riverfinger Women, by Elana Nachman (Dykewomon)
88. The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, by Tom Spanbauer [beyond racist]
89. Closer, by Dennis Cooper
90. Lost Illusions, by Honoré de Balzac
91. Miss Peabody's Inheritance, by Elizabeth Jolley
92. Rene's Flesh, by Virgilio Pinera
93. Funny Boy, by Shyam Selvadurai
94. Wasteland, by Jo Sinclair
95. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, by May Sarton
96. Sea of Tranquility, by Paul Russell
97. Autobiography of a Family Photo, by Jacqueline Woodson
98. In Thrall, by Jane DeLynn
99. On Strike Against God, by Joanna Russ
100. Sita, by Kate Millet

What about Stone Butch Blues? Any David Leavitt? The Front Runner?

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Good lord! How did we all miss that?

Thanks Terry!