Queer Lit & Queer Writers Before 2000

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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray 4.13 avg rating — 1,783,164 ratings
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Giovanni’s Room
Giovanni’s Room 4.34 avg rating — 226,190 ratings
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Carmilla
Carmilla 3.87 avg rating — 166,973 ratings
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The Price of Salt
The Price of Salt 4.02 avg rating — 80,978 ratings
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Maurice
Maurice 4.08 avg rating — 55,454 ratings
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Annie on My Mind
Annie on My Mind 4.02 avg rating — 55,094 ratings
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 3.73 avg rating — 89,537 ratings
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Tipping the Velvet
Tipping the Velvet 4.05 avg rating — 76,498 ratings
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Orlando
Orlando 3.87 avg rating — 109,462 ratings
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Death in Venice
Death in Venice 3.69 avg rating — 65,727 ratings
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A Single Man
A Single Man 4.06 avg rating — 36,554 ratings
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The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,261 ratings
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The Well of Loneliness
The Well of Loneliness 3.76 avg rating — 18,804 ratings
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Drawing Blood
Drawing Blood 4.03 avg rating — 10,944 ratings
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The Monk
The Monk 3.85 avg rating — 31,712 ratings
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by: Anne Rice
4.02 avg rating — 633,888 ratings
17.
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister 3.95 avg rating — 1,906 ratings
18.
Confessions of a Mask
Confessions of a Mask 3.95 avg rating — 37,131 ratings
19.
Other Voices, Other Rooms
Other Voices, Other Rooms 3.75 avg rating — 17,277 ratings
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Rubyfruit Jungle
Rubyfruit Jungle 3.91 avg rating — 46,000 ratings
21.
Notes of a Crocodile
Notes of a Crocodile 3.82 avg rating — 8,560 ratings
22.
Bertram Cope's Year
Bertram Cope's Year 3.59 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Such Times
Such Times 4.15 avg rating — 172 ratings
24.
Teleny or the Reverse of the Medal
Teleny or the Reverse of the Medal 3.63 avg rating — 2,538 ratings
25.
Imre: A Memorandum
Imre: A Memorandum 3.67 avg rating — 194 ratings
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The Immoralist
The Immoralist 3.55 avg rating — 13,271 ratings
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The City and the Pillar
The City and the Pillar 3.84 avg rating — 10,091 ratings
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The Counterfeiters
The Counterfeiters 3.83 avg rating — 10,132 ratings
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Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers 4.01 avg rating — 6,846 ratings
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Less Than Zero
Less Than Zero 3.60 avg rating — 95,150 ratings
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Ernesto
Ernesto 3.70 avg rating — 1,075 ratings
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Reflections in a Golden Eye
Reflections in a Golden Eye 3.84 avg rating — 7,042 ratings
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A Room in Chelsea Square
A Room in Chelsea Square 3.48 avg rating — 92 ratings
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City of Night
City of Night 3.94 avg rating — 4,904 ratings
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
Kiss of the Spider Woman 4.02 avg rating — 21,126 ratings
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Dancer from the Dance
Dancer from the Dance 3.98 avg rating — 10,108 ratings
37.
Tales of the City (Tales of the City #1)
Tales of the City (Tales of the City #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 46,893 ratings
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Three Lives
Three Lives 3.07 avg rating — 4,475 ratings
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Two Serious Ladies
Two Serious Ladies 3.58 avg rating — 4,156 ratings
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Was
Was 3.88 avg rating — 1,853 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,728 ratings
42.
The Gallery
The Gallery 4.03 avg rating — 470 ratings
43.
Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi
Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Dividing Stream
The Dividing Stream 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Patience & Sarah
Patience & Sarah 3.91 avg rating — 5,147 ratings
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The Female Man
The Female Man 3.47 avg rating — 8,756 ratings
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The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness 4.10 avg rating — 209,489 ratings
48.
My Tender Matador
My Tender Matador 4.47 avg rating — 15,362 ratings
49.
The Marvelous Land of Oz (Oz, #2)
The Marvelous Land of Oz (Oz, #2) 3.80 avg rating — 25,281 ratings
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Wingmen
Wingmen 4.38 avg rating — 365 ratings
51.
The Sins of the Cities of the Plain
The Sins of the Cities of the Plain
by: Jack Saul
3.28 avg rating — 411 ratings
51.
Blood Price (Vicki Nelson #1)
Blood Price (Vicki Nelson #1) 3.76 avg rating — 10,897 ratings
53.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe 4.28 avg rating — 321,395 ratings
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Lost Souls
Lost Souls 3.90 avg rating — 18,831 ratings
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Bom-Crioulo
Bom-Crioulo 3.56 avg rating — 898 ratings
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Exquisite Corpse
Exquisite Corpse 3.79 avg rating — 24,129 ratings
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Dracula
Dracula 4.02 avg rating — 1,415,247 ratings
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Wormwood
Wormwood 3.93 avg rating — 5,953 ratings
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Year in Arcadia: A Shepherd's Calendar
Year in Arcadia: A Shepherd's Calendar 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
60.
Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania
Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania 3.61 avg rating — 54 ratings
61.
Melmoth the Wanderer
Melmoth the Wanderer 3.73 avg rating — 5,453 ratings
62.
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 66,166 ratings
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Sappho
Sappho
by: Sappho
4.20 avg rating — 7,068 ratings
64.
The Portable Walt Whitman
The Portable Walt Whitman 4.31 avg rating — 890 ratings
65.
Strange Brother
Strange Brother 3.74 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent 4.21 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Gentleman Jigger: A Novel of the Harlem Renaissance
Gentleman Jigger: A Novel of the Harlem Renaissance 3.62 avg rating — 40 ratings
68.
Better Angel
Better Angel 3.93 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Nightwood
Nightwood 3.61 avg rating — 14,254 ratings
70.
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 341,983 ratings
71.
A Queer Kind of Death (Pharoah Love, #1)
A Queer Kind of Death (Pharoah Love, #1) 3.57 avg rating — 108 ratings
72.
Two Friends: And Other 19th-Century American Lesbian Stories by American Women Writers
Two Friends: And Other 19th-Century American Lesbian Stories by American Women Writers 3.84 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Sapphic Songs: Eighteen to Eighty
Sapphic Songs: Eighteen to Eighty 3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Claudine at School
Claudine at School
by: Colette
3.72 avg rating — 2,770 ratings
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Olivia
Olivia 3.79 avg rating — 3,500 ratings
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Diana: A Strange Autobiography (The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series)
Diana: A Strange Autobiography (The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series) 3.55 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Desert of the Heart
Desert of the Heart
by: Jane Rule
3.91 avg rating — 4,944 ratings
78.
The Microcosm
The Microcosm 3.34 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972
Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972 4.24 avg rating — 2,511 ratings
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The Ship of Fools
The Ship of Fools 3.91 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Real World
Real World 3.41 avg rating — 8,670 ratings
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Bastard Out of Carolina
Bastard Out of Carolina 4.14 avg rating — 46,995 ratings
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The House You Pass on the Way
The House You Pass on the Way 3.78 avg rating — 1,794 ratings
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How to Suppress Women's Writing
How to Suppress Women's Writing 4.28 avg rating — 2,736 ratings
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Dhalgren
Dhalgren 3.78 avg rating — 12,077 ratings
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Camp Concentration
Camp Concentration 3.73 avg rating — 3,016 ratings
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Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)
Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 30,373 ratings
88.
Watchtower (Chronicles of Tornor, #1)
Watchtower (Chronicles of Tornor, #1) 3.57 avg rating — 1,032 ratings
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Tomoe Gozen (Tomoe Gozen #1)
Tomoe Gozen (Tomoe Gozen #1) 3.77 avg rating — 457 ratings
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The Man Who Folded Himself
The Man Who Folded Himself 3.81 avg rating — 6,653 ratings
91.
Hild (The Hild Sequence, #1)
Hild (The Hild Sequence, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 12,545 ratings
92.
Trouble and Her Friends
Trouble and Her Friends 3.80 avg rating — 1,560 ratings
93.
A Simple Suburban Murder (Tom Mason & Scott Carpenter, #1)
A Simple Suburban Murder (Tom Mason & Scott Carpenter, #1) 3.57 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
Houston, Houston, Do You Read? 3.98 avg rating — 1,480 ratings
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The Heart in Exile
The Heart in Exile 3.60 avg rating — 123 ratings
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The Plaster Fabric
The Plaster Fabric 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Cruising the South Seas
Cruising the South Seas 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Aubade
Aubade 3.53 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Death of My Aunt (Malcolm Warren Mysteries, #1)
Death of My Aunt (Malcolm Warren Mysteries, #1) 3.47 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Look Down in Mercy
Look Down in Mercy 4.01 avg rating — 75 ratings
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