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Queer Book Classics

In this list you'll find queer and LGBT literary classics from antiquity to modern times, also known as the queer literary canon.
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Actes Impurs & Amado Mio (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Actes Impurs & Amado Mio
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
After Dolores, Sarah Schulman
After Dolores, Sarah Schulman
2
AIDS and Its Metaphors (Susan Sontag)
AIDS and Its Metaphors
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Susan Sontag
Alexis (Marguerite Yourcenar)
Alexis
4
Marguerite Yourcenar
Angels in America (Tony Kushner)
Angels in America
5
Tony Kushner
Arthur Rimbaud - Complete Works (Arthur Rimbaud)
Arthur Rimbaud - Complete Works
6
Arthur Rimbaud
As Meat Loves Salt
As Meat Loves Salt
7
At Swim, Two Boys (Jamie O'Neill)
At Swim, Two Boys
8
Jamie O'Neill
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Gertrude Stein)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
9
Gertrude Stein
BABEL-17 Samuel R. Delany
BABEL-17 Samuel R. Delany
10
The Beautiful Room Is Empty (Edmund White)
The Beautiful Room Is Empty
11
Edmund White
Becoming a Man (Paul Monette)
Becoming a Man
12
Paul Monette
Before Night Falls
Before Night Falls
13
The Berlin Stories (Christopher Isherwood)
The Berlin Stories
14
Christopher Isherwood
Blue Is the Warmest Color (Julie Maroh)
Blue Is the Warmest Color
15
Julie Maroh
Borderlands (Gloria E. Anzaldúa)
Borderlands
16
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Borrowed Time (Paul Monette)
Borrowed Time
17
Paul Monette
A Boy's Own Story (Edmund White)
A Boy's Own Story
18
Edmund White
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
19
Evelyn Waugh
Carmilla (J. Sheridan Le Fanu)
Carmilla
20
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Ceremonies (Essex Hemphill)
Ceremonies
21
Essex Hemphill
The Charioteer (Mary Renault)
The Charioteer
22
Mary Renault
Christopher and His Kind (Christopher Isherwood)
Christopher and His Kind
23
Christopher Isherwood
The City and the Pillar (Gore Vidal)
The City and the Pillar
24
Gore Vidal
City of Night
City of Night
25
Claudine at School
Claudine at School
26
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration (David Wojnarowicz)
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
27
David Wojnarowicz
Closer (Dennis Cooper)
Closer
28
Dennis Cooper
The Collected Poems of Audre Lord (Audre Lorde)
The Collected Poems of Audre Lord
29
Audre Lorde
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (Frank O'Hara)
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
30
Frank O'Hara
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen (Wilfred Owen)
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
31
Wilfred Owen
The Compassion Protocol (Hervè Guibert)
The Compassion Protocol
32
Hervè Guibert
The Complete Poems of Cavafy (Constantine P. Cavafy)
The Complete Poems of Cavafy
33
Constantine P. Cavafy
Confessions of a Mask (Yukio Mishima)
Confessions of a Mask
34
Yukio Mishima
Conundrum (Jan Morris)
Conundrum
35
Jan Morris
Corydon
Corydon
36
Dancer From the Dance
Dancer From the Dance
37
Der Tod in Venedig (Thomas Mann)
Der Tod in Venedig
38
Thomas Mann
Despised and Rejected (Rose Allatini)
Despised and Rejected
39
Rose Allatini
Edinburgh (Alexander Chee)
Edinburgh
40
Alexander Chee
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