Shetland Library

 

Books with a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender theme:

Fiction

 

Alderson, Maggie                             Mad about the boy

Anshaw, Carol                                   Lucky in the corner

Arnott, Jake                                       The long firm

Baldwin, James                                 Giovanni’s room

Besson, Phillipe                                In the absence of men

Boulter, Amanda                               Around the houses

Breneman, Terri                                Delusional

Brownrigg, Sylvia                              Pages for you

Burston, Paul                                     The gay divorcee

Cooper, Steven                                 Deadline

Craft, Michael                                    Body language

Cumming, Alan                                  Tommy’s tale

Cunningham, Michael                       A home at the end of the world

Cunningham, Michael                       The hours

Darling, Julia                                      Crocodile soup

Dessaix, Robert                                Corfu

Duffy, Stella                                        Calendar girl

Dunker, Patricia                                Hallucinating Foucault

Everett, Percival                                Wounded

Eugenides, Jeffrey                            Middlesex

Forest, Katherine V                          Lesbian pulp fiction

Forster, E.M.                                      Maurice

Gale, Patrick                                      The cat sanctuary

Gale, Patrick                                      Rough music

Glass, Julie                                        Three Junes

Gunthorpe, Dale                                Georgiana’s closet

Hall, Radclyffe                                    The well of loneliness

Highsmith, Patricia                           Carol

Hollinghurst, Alan                              The swimming pool library

Kabil, Amjeed                                    Straightening Ali

Keenan, Joe                                      Blue heaven

Kennedy, Brian                                  The arrival of Fergal Flynn

Leavitt, David                                    The page turner

LeRoy, J.T.                                         The heart is deceitful above all things

Lieshout, Ted van                              Brothers

Magrs, Paul                                       Strange boy

Maupin, Armistead                           The night listener

Maupin, Armistead                           Michael Tolliver lives

Mishima, Yukio                                  Confessions of a mask

Murdoch, Iris                                      The bell

Nadal, Barbara                                  A passion for killing

O’Neill, Jamie                                    At swim, two boys

Orton, Joe                                          The boy hairdresser

Picano, Felice                                   Like people in history

Porter, Dorothy                                  The monkey’s mask

Proulx, Annie                                     Brokeback mountain

Renault, Mary                                     The Charioteer

Ridley, Elizabeth                               The remarkable journey of Miss Tranby Quirke

Rule, Jane                                          Desert of hearts

Scott, Lawrence                                Aelred’s sin

Self, Will                                             Dorian, an imitation

Selvaduria, Shyam                            Funny boy

Solomon, Andrew                             A stone boat

Stace, Wesley                                   Misfortune

Stevenson, Richard                          Shock to the system

Sutcliffe, William                                New boy

Tobin, Colm                                       Story of the night

Truong, Monique                               The book of salt

Tym, Kate                                           Living upside down

Vidal, Gore                                        The city and the pillar

Waters, Sarah                                   Fingersmith

Welsh, Louise                                    The cutting room

White, Edmund                                  A boy’s own story

Winterson, Jeanette                          Oranges are not the only fruit

Witkowski, Michal                             Lovetown

Woolf, Virginia                                   Orlando         

 

 

 

 

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Books with a  Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender theme:

non-fiction

           

Ambrose, Tom                                  Heroes to exiles: gay icons through the ages

Bailey, Paul                                        The stately homo: a celebration of the life of Quentin Crisp

Baker, Paul                                        Hello sailor!: the history of gay life at sea

Beard, Richard                                  Becoming Drusilla

Boy George                                       Straight

Brett, David                                        Rock Hudson

Brooks, Greg                                     Freddie Mercury: his life in his own words

Butters, Wes                                      Kenneth Williams unseen

Carter, Miranda                                 Anthony Blunt: his lives

Clary, Julian                                       A young man’s passage

Crisp, Quentin                                   The naked civil servant

Davidson, James                              The Greeks and Greek love

Duralde, Alonso                                101 must-see movies for gay men

Hill, Nicola                                          A very pink wedding

McLellan, Diana                                The girls: Sappho goes to Hollywood

Miller, Neil                                          Out of the past: gay and lesbian history from 1869 to the present

Naphy, William                                  Born to be gay: a history of homosexuality

Sappho                                              Stung with love : poems and fragments of Sappho

Slater, Nigel                                       Toast

Stern, Ketih                                        Queers in history

Vass, Alex                                          Gay sex, gay health: all you need to know about sex, relationships and sexual health

White, Edmund                                  My lives

Wintle, John Edwin                           Breakfast with Tiffany: a memoir