So-called best gay books of all time

This list, assembled by Benoît Denizet-Lewis, is as atrociously presented as one would expect from a site run by incompetent Web developers/SEO whores.

• The whole thing’s split over four pageview-inflating pages; even Readability can’t assemble them into one.

• The markup is so atrocious it can’t even wrap around contributor photos properly.

• There is an obfuscation of Amazon affiliate links that is one step away from cheating.

• Some items are simply misspelled.

• Even the slugs suck, but these people are too stupid to understand why slugs matter.

Because you, like me, want only the merged and deduped list and nothing else, here it is. And these are manifestly not the best “LGBT” books of all time, since, as we know, LGBT is a lie. No, I’m not going to look up links at LibraryThing.

1. À rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans
2. All: A James Broughton Reader, Jack Foley, ed.
3. Another Country by James Baldwin
4. Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
5. Baker Street by Guy Davis
6. The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers
7. Billy Budd by Herman Melville
8. Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette
9. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
10. Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men, Essex Hemphill, ed.
11. The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo
12. Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry by Essex Hemphill
13. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell
14. City of Night by John Rechy
15. Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz
16. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
17. Complete Poems by Constantine Cavafy
18. The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
19. Dancer From the Dance by Andrew Holleran
20. Dar: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary by Erika Moen
21. Don’t Bite the Sun and Drinking Sapphire Wine by Tanith Lee
22. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
23. Falconer by John Cheever
24. The Folded Leaf by William Maxwell
25. The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
26. Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the USA by Jonathan Katz
27. The Gay Militants by Donn Teal
28. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
29. A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
30. The Greeks and Greek Love by James N. Davidson
31. Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal by J.R. Ackerley
32. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Barbara Smith, ed.
33. The Hotel Wentley Poems by John Wieners
34. I Remember by Joe Brainard
35. I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall
36. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
37. In Youth Is Pleasure by Denton Welch
38. Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine
39. Life Mask by Emma Donoghue
40. Love and Rockets by the Hernandez Brothers
41. The Man of the House by Stephen McCauley
42. The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon by Tom Spanbauer
43. The Master by Colm Tóibín
44. Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguérite Yourcenar
45. The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1960–1965 by Samuel Delany
46. Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White
47. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
48. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
49. Picasso and Dora: A Memoir by James Lord
50. The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction 1948–1985 by James Baldwin
51. The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
52. The Pure and the Impure by Colette
53. Reflections of a Rock Lobster: A Story about Growing Up Gay by Aaron Fricke
54. The Satyricon by Petronius
55. Saul’s Book by Paul T. Rogers
56. Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T.E. Lawrence
57. Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
58. The Symposium by Plato
59. Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
60. Undoing Gender by Judith Butler
61. Valencia by Michelle Tea
62. A Voice Through a Cloud by Denton Welch
63. Was by Geoff Ryman
64. The Way We Live Now by Susan Sontag
65. We Too Are Drifting by Gale Wilhelm
66. What’s for Dinner? by James Schuyler
67. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

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