Reading Group: Books Discussed Since 1997
The next four G&L Reading Group selecions are listed on the GLBT Literature Homepage. Below are all of the books discussed by the Reading Group since 1997, alternating each month between female and male authors, and encompassing classic and contemporary works of fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry.
Below, each title since 1999 links to online resources for the author, that I selected after visiting all related sites. For books read between 1999 and 2004, there is also a summary of our discussion.
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1998
| December | Palimpsest – Gore Vidal's 1995 memoir |
| November | The Passion – Jeanette Winterson's 1987 novel |
| October | Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin's 1953 novel |
| September | Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar's 1951 novel |
| August | The Dreyfus Affair – Peter Lefcourt's 1992 novel |
| July | The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein's 1933 novel |
| June | Labyrinths – Jorge Luis Borges's 1964 collection of stories and essays |
| May | Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel |
| April | The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel |
| March | The Price of Salt – Patricia Highsmith's ("Claire Morgan") 1952 novel |
| February | Invisible Life – E. Lynn Harris's 1991 novel |
| January | Nightwood – Djuna Barnes's 1936 novel |
1997
| December | Kiss of the Spider Woman – Manuel Puig's 1976 novel |
| November | Another Mother Tongue – Judy Grahn's 1984 memoir |
| October | The Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt's 1986 novel |
| September | Virtual Equality – Urvashi Vaid's 1995 political study |
| August | Angels in America (Part I: Millennium Approaches & Part II: Perestroika) – Tony Kushner's 1992 play |
| July | Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson's 1989 novel |
| June | Gay New York: 1890-1940 – George Chauncey's 1994 history |
Thanks to Howard L for the following five titles read earlier in 1997, before I joined the group: |
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| May | Bastard Out of Carolina – Dorothy Allison's 1992 novel |
| April | Father of Frankenstein – Christopher Bram's 1995 novel. (SPECIAL: Mr. Bram appeared for questions & answers) |
| March | The Leather Boys – Gillian Freeman's 1966 novel |
| February | Let the Dead Bury Their Dead – Randall Kenan's 1992 short story collection |
| January | The Front Runner – Patricia Nell Warren's 1974 novel |
Although this page includes all books discussed since 1997 by the G&L Reading Group, it was originally founded circa 1982 — making it one of the longest continuously-meeting GLBT organizations in New York. |
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