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Position:Home>Books & Authors> Any good gay books.?Question: Any good gay books!.!? Any good gay books!? No tacky, erotic (well maybe a little) books!. I hate them! I want a normal, non-fiction (no HERO bullshit i hated that book), i don't want it to be about a guy that goes out clubbing every night!. i want something deeper and meaningful, poetical and i dunno maybe philosophicalWww@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I really liked the novel Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham, and try Augusten Burroughs and David Sedaris if you haven't already!.!.!. those two guys are funny!. I know you didn't ask about movies, but I just saw a sweet independent film called SHELTER on DVD, it was wonderful - a great date movie and I highly recommend that, as well!. Www@QuestionHome@Com If you want nonfiction, I would suggest Becoming a Man by Paul Monette, Firebird by Mark Doty, and Famous Builder by Paul Lisicky!. For fiction, I enjoyed Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram; they based Gods & Monsters (the movie) on that book!. And like the other commenter, I also like Michael Cunningham, though my favorites are The Hours and A Home at the End of the World!. This page lists a bunch of titles, fiction and nonfiction: http://jclarkmedia!.com/gaybooks/recommen!.!.!. also you can find out a lot of stuff about gay literature through the Lamdba Literary Foundation--their Lambda Book Report will keep you posted if you subscribe! http://lambdalit!.orgWww@QuestionHome@Com I don't know about being poetical or philosophical but I liked How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater which is a coming of age tale set in the 1980's!. Its funny and a little ridiculous but also sweet!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Go read Janet Fitch's latest book!. It's not about homosexuality, yet has an even better sexual twist at its end!.!.!.!. Your question is somewhat confusing!. Fitch is a fictional writer!. But if you're looking for non-fiction then disregard this!.Www@QuestionHome@Com the red pony by steinbeckWww@QuestionHome@Com the house on manga street!. that book was pretty gay!.!.!. but!.!.!. there's no homosexual stuff!.!. Www@QuestionHome@Com well there is always Harry Potter!.!.!. or Lord of the Rings (Frodo/Sam)Www@QuestionHome@Com Actually I just read a gay book!. Though I personally do not like such books, I quite appreciated the story line!. It's Philadelphia by Ron Nyswaner!. These are the most recent books I've read:- Swan by Frances Mayes Flight of the Archangel (sorry, I just can't bring to mind the name of the author) The Chase by Louisa May Alcott The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier Almonds and Raisins by Maisie Mosco Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Sister of My Heart, Arranged Marriage and The Lives of Others by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni!. She's really a great author!. Here's a standard list I always advise:- Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner by George Eliot Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, The Old Curiosity Shop, Little Dorrit, Martin Chuzzlewit, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol, A tale of Two Cities and Bleak House by Charles Dickens!. The Grapes of wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl,Tortilla flat by John Steinbeck Tess of the Duberville, Jude the Obscure, The return of the Native, Under the Greenwood tree, A Pair of Blue eyes,The Mayor of Casterbridge, Far from the Madding Crowd and The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy Villette, Shirley, The Professor,and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Agnes Grey, The tenant of Windfell Hall by Anne Bronte Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe The Alchemist and Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute The Great Gatsby by F!. Scott Fitzgerald Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Diary of Anne Frank Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth and any other play by Shakespeare The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart and other stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Awakening by Kate Chopin The Sun also Rises by Earnest Hemingway The Sound and the Fury and Light in August by William Faulkner All Quite on the Western Front by Eric Maria Remarque Night by Elie Wiesel Black Boy by Richard Wright The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Canterville Ghost, Salome, Vera Or The Nihilists,The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Don Quixote by Cervantes Oedipus Rex and Antigone by Sophocles Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malroy The Metamorphosis by Kafka Candide by Voltaire Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Lost world and the Time Machine by H!.G!.Wells Roll of Thunder, Hear my cry and Let the Circle be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor A Grain Of Wheat, Matigari and Devil on the Cross by Ngugi Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe The Grass is Singing by Dorris Lessing Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe!. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London A Room with A View and A Passage to India by E!.M!.Forster Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marquez A House For Mr Biswas and Mr Stone and the Knights companion by V!.S!.Naipaul The Guide, The English Teacher, Waiting for the Mahatma and Malgudi Days by R!.K!.Narayan Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Michael Crichton( It's nothing like the film, it's a million times times more interesting) A Streetcar named Desire, The Glass Menagerie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennesse Williams All My Sons, Death of A Salesman, The Crucible and A View From The Bridge by Arthur Miller Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys The Reef, The Custom of the Country, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Mary Barton and North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James Hope this helps!Www@QuestionHome@Com |