Reading Group: Books Discussed Since 1997

By Title

• An Accidental Man
• Affinity
• The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book
• All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913–1930
• Angels & Insects
• Another Country
• Aquamarine
• At Swim, Two Boys
• The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
• Balthazar
• Becoming a Man
• Before Night Falls
• The Bell
• Berlin Stories
• Billy Budd, Sailor
• The Bishop's Daughter
• The Black Prince
• Blood Wedding
• Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
• The Book of Salt
• The Boys in the Band
• Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• Brideshead Revisited
• Brokeback Mountain
• By Night in Chile
• Cakes and Ale
• Call Me by Your Name
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Cavedweller
• The Changelings
• Chelsea Girls
• Cherí
• The Children's Book
• The Children's Hour
• Christopher and His Kind
• City Boy
• City of Night
• Claudine
• Close Range : Wyoming Stories
• The Coming Storm
• Confessions of a Mask
• The Counterfeiters
• The Country of the Pointed Firs
• De Profundis
• Death Comes for the Archbishop
• Death in Venice
• Death of the Heart
• Delta of Venus
• Dickinson's Poetry
• Dream Boy
• Earthly Powers
• Eminent Victorians
• The Eye in the Door
• A Fairly Honorable Defeat
• Fingersmith
• Flush: A Biography
• Fun Home
• Funny Boy
• Get Happy: Life of Judy Garland
• Giovanni's Room
• The Good Apprentice
• Gossip
• Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
• The Group
• Haunting of Hill House
• Heart is a Lonely Hunter
• Henry and June
• Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s
• A Home at the End of the World
• The Hours
• The House of Bernarda Alba
• Howards End
• Howl & Other Poems
• I Am My Own Wife
• The Immoralist
• In a Shallow Grave
• In America
• In Cold Blood
• Jacob's Room
• Julian
• Just Kids
• The Last of the Wine
• The Left Hand of Darkness
• Lighthousekeeping
• The Line of Beauty
• Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
• Love! Valour! Compasion!
• Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature
• The Magic Mountain
• Mama Day
• Mansfield's Stories
• The Mask of Apollo
• The Master
• Maurice
• The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
• The Member of the Wedding
• Memoirs of Hadrian
• Middlesex
• Moby-Dick
• The Moon and Sixpence
• Narcissus and Goldmund
• The Night Watch
• The Notorious Dr. August
• O Pioneers!
• Odd Girl Out
• Of Human Bondage
• On the Road
• Onyx
• Original Story By: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood
• Orlando
• Other Voices, Other Rooms
• Our Lady of the Flowers
• Paris Was Yesterday, 1925 – 1939
• A Passage to India
• The Passion
• Patience & Sarah
• The Persian Boy
• Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
• Possession: A Romance
• The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire
• Querelle
• The Rainbow
• The Razor's Edge
• Rebecca
• Reflections in a Golden Eye
• Regeneration
• Remembrance of Things Past (aka In Search of Lost Time) — read in the Proust Discussion Group
• Rendezvous in Black
• Ripley Under Water
• Ripley Under Ground
• Roman Nights and Other Stories
• A Room of One's Own
• Rough Music
• Rubyfruit Jungle
• Sacred Night
• The Sandcastle
• The Savage Detectives
• The Sea, The Sea
• Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
• A Severed Head
• Shakespeare and Company
• The Sheltering Sky
• Shockproof Sydney Skate
• A Single Man
• Slammerkin
• The Song of the Lark
• Sons and Lovers
• The Spell
• Spring Fire
• Strangers on a Train
• Suddenly Last Summer
• Sweet Days of Discipline
• Symposium
• Tales of the City
• The Tenderness of Wolves
• Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Three Junes
• Three Lives
• Tipping the Velvet
• To the Lighthouse
• Tonio Kröger
• True Enough
• Two Serious Ladies
• Under the Net
• Valley of the Dolls
• The Vast Fields of Ordinary
• Vile Bodies
• The Waves
• What Maisie Knew
• The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter
• Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
• Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star
• Women in Love
• You Are Not a Stranger Here
• Young Törless

By Author

• Aciman, Andre – Call Me by Your Name [discussed 2011-03]
• Allison, Dorothy – Cavedweller
• Anshaw, Carol – Aquamarine [discussed 2013-04]
• Arenas, Reinaldo – Before Night Falls [discussed 2010-01 and 2001-04]
• Baldwin, James
  – Another Country
  – Giovanni's Room
• Barker, Pat
  – Regeneration
  – The Eye in the Door
  
• Bannon, Ann – Odd Girl Out [discussed 2012-06]
• Barnet, Andrea – All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913–1930
• Beach, Sylvia – Shakespeare and Company [discussed 2010-10]
• Bechdel, Allison – Fun Home
• Bolaño, Robert
  – By Night in Chile
  – The Savage Detectives
  
• Bowen, Elizabeth – The Death of the Heart
• Bowles, Jane – Two Serious Ladies [discussed 2009-10]
• Bowles, Paul – The Sheltering Sky
• Bram, Christopher
  – Gossip
  – The Notorious Dr. August
  Christopher Bram Web Page
  
• Brown, Rita Mae – Rubyfruit Jungle
• Burd, Nick – The Vast Fields of Ordinary [discussed 2010-11]
• Byatt, A.S.
  – Angels & Insects [discussed 2011-08]
  – The Children's Book [discussed 2010-02]
  – Possession: A Romance
• Burgess, Anthony – Earthly Powers
• Capote, Truman
  – In Cold Blood
  – Other Voices, Other Rooms
  
• Cather, Willa
  – Death Comes for the Archbishop (also 2000-01)
  – O Pioneers! [discussed 2013-06]
  – The Song of the Lark
• Clarke, Gerald – Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland
  
• Colette
  – Cherí
  – Claudine
  
• Crowley, Mart – The Boys in the Band [discussed 2010-07]
• Cunningham, Michael
  – A Home at the End of the World
  – The Hours
  
• D'Emilio, John – Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
• Dickinson, Emily – Poetry
• Donoghue, Emma – Slammerkin
• Du Maurier, Daphe – Rebecca [discussed 2012-08]
• Durrell, Lawrence – Balthazar
• Eugenides, Jeffrey – Middlesex
• Flanner, Janet – Paris Was Yesterday, 1925 – 1939 [discussed 2010-06]
• Forster, E.M.
  – Howards End
  – Maurice [discussed 2013-05]
  – A Passage to India
  
• Gale, Patrick – Rough Music
• Genet, Jean
  – Our Lady of the Flowers
  – Querelle [discussed 2012-03]
• Gide, André
  – The Counterfeiters
  – The Immoralist [discussed 2013-01]
  
• Ginsberg, Allen – Howl & Other Poems
• Glass, Julia – Three Junes
• Grimsley, Jim – Dream Boy
• Hamilton, Gabrielle – Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef [discussed 2012-12]
• Haslett, Adam – You Are Not a Stranger Here
• Hellman, Lillian – The Children's Hour
• Hesse, Hermann – Narcissus and Goldmund [discussed 2009-01]
• Highsmith, Patricia
  – Ripley Under Ground
  – Ripley Under Water [discussed 2010-02]
  – Strangers on a Train
• Hollinghurst, Alan
  – The Line of Beauty
  – The Spell [discussed 2012-01]
  
• Hurston, Nora Zeale – Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Isherwood, Christopher
  – Berlin Stories
  – Christopher and His Kind
  – A Single Man [discussed 2010-05]
  
• Jackson, Shirley – Haunting of Hill House
• Jaeggy, Fleur – Sweet Days of Discipline
• James, Henry – What Maisie Knew
• Jelloun, Tahar ben – Sacred Night
• Jewett, Sarah Orne – The Country of the Pointed Firs
• Kaufman, Moisés – Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde [discussed 2011-07]
• Kerouac, Jack – On the Road [discussed 2009-09]
• Koestenbaum, Wayne – The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire (1993) [discussed 2009-05]
• Laurents, Arthur – Original Story By: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood [discussed 2012-11]
  
• Lawrence, D.H.
  – The Rainbow
  – Sons and Lovers
  – Women in Love
• LeGuin, Ursula K. – The Left Hand of Darkness
• Lorca, Federico Garcia
  – Blood Wedding
  – The House of Bernarda Alba
  
• Mahlsdorf, Charlotte von – I Am My Own Wife (original title: I Am My Own Woman)
• Mann, Thomas
  – Death in Venice
  – The Magic Mountain [discussed 2009-03]
  – Tonio Kröger
  
• Mann, William J. – Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star [discussed 2012-07]
• Mansfield, Katherine – Stories
• Martin, Douglas – Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother
• Maugham, Somerset
  – Cakes and Ale
  – The Moon and Sixpence
  – Of Human Bondage
  – The Razor's Edge [discussed 2011-01]
• Maupin, Armistead – Tales of the City
• McCarthy, Mary – The Group
• McCauley, Stephen – True Enough
• McCullers, Carson
  – The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
  – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
  – The Member of the Wedding
  – Reflections in a Golden Eye
  
• McNally, Terrence – Love! Valour! Compasion! [discussed 2010-07]
• Meaker, Marijane
  – Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s [discussed 2009-08]
  – Shockproof Sydney Skate [discussed 2013-02]
  
• Melville, Herman
  – Billy Budd, Sailor
  – Moby-Dick [discussed 2012-09]
• Miller, Isabel – Patience & Sarah
• Mishima, Yukio – Confessions of a Mask
• Monette, Paul – Becoming a Man
• Moore, Honor
  – The Bishop's Daughter [discussed 2009-12]
  – The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter [discussed 2010-04]
• Murdoch, Iris
  – An Accidental Man [discussed 2011-10]
  – The Bell
  – The Black Prince
  – A Fairly Honorable Defeat
  – The Good Apprentice [discussed 2011-04]
  – The Sandcastle [discussed 2009-02]
  – The Sea, The Sea
  – A Severed Head
  – Under the Net
  
• Myles, Eileen – Chelsea Girls
• Musil, Robert – Young Törless
• Naylor, Gloria – Mama Day [discussed 2010-08]
• Nicolson, Nigel – Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson [discussed 2013-03]
• Nin, Anaïs
  – Delta of Venus
  – Henry and June
• O'Neill, Jamie – At Swim, Two Boys
• Oates, Joyce Carol – Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway [discussed 2009-06]
• Packer, Vin – Spring Fire [discussed 2012-10]
• Pasolini, Pier Paolo – Roman Nights and Other Stories
• Penney, Stef – The Tenderness of Wolves (2004) [discussed 2009-04]
• Picano, Felice – Onyx [discussed 2010-09]
• Plato – Symposium
  
• Proulx, Annie – Close Range : Wyoming Stories (includes "Brokeback Mountain")
• Proust, Marcel – A Remembrance of Things Past (aka In Search of Lost Time) — read in the now-concluded Proust Discussion Group
• Purdy, James – In a Shallow Grave
• Rechy, John – City of Night
• Renault, Mary
  – The Last of the Wine
  – The Mask of Apollo
  – The Persian Boy
  
• Russell, Paul – The Coming Storm
• Selvadurai, Shyam – Funny Boy
• Shilts, Randy – The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk [discussed 2009-07]
  
• Sinclair, Jo – The Changelings
• Smith, Patti – Just Kids [discussed 2011-06]
• Sontag, Susan – In America
• Spring, Justin – Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade [discussed 2011-11]
• Stein, Gertrude – Three Lives
• Strachey, Lytton – Eminent Victorians [discussed 2009-11]
• Susann, Jacqueline – Valley of the Dolls [discussed 2012-04]
• Tóibín, Colm – Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature [discussed 2013-07]
  – The Master
• Toklas, Alice B. – The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book [discussed 2010-12]
• Truong, Monique – The Book of Salt
• Vidal, Gore – Julian
• Waters, Sarah
  – Affinity
  – Fingersmith
  – The Night Watch
  – Tipping the Velvet
  
• Waugh, Evelyn – Brideshead Revisited
  – Vile Bodies [discussed 2009-09]
• White, Edmund – City Boy [discussed 2011-05]
• Wilde, Oscar – De Profundis [discussed 2011-07]
• Wilder, Thornton – The Bridge of San Luis Rey [discussed 2012-05]
• Williams, Tennessee
  – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  – Suddenly Last Summer
  
• Winterson, Jeanette
  – Lighthousekeeping
  – The Passion (also 11/1998)
• Woolf, Virginia
  – Flush: A Biography
  – Jacob's Room
  – Orlando [discussed 2012-02]
  – A Room of One's Own
  – To the Lighthouse
  – The Waves
• Woolrich, Cornell – Rendezvous in Black
• Yourcenar, Marguerite – Memoirs of Hadrian [discussed 2011-12 and 1998-09]

Thanks to Howard L for the following five titles read earlier in 1997, before I joined the group:

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.