The 2020--2021 Bookmen reading list

I've already disseminated the winning titles from our most recent round of nominations for our next reading list to you via e-mail, but here they are for more general approbation. 

FICTION

A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale. Grand Central, 2016, $16, 384 pages.

A Saint from Texas by Edmund White. Bloomsbury, 2020, $24, 304 pages.

Find Me by Andre Aciman. Picador, 2020, $14, 272 pages. 

Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. Grove Press, 1964, $13, 320 pages.

P.S. Your Cat Is Dead: A Novel by James Kirkwood. (Not currently in print, but available from booksellers.) Warner Paperback Library, 1973, 223 pages.

Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski. William Morrow, 2020, $20, 208 pages.

The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Penguin, 1982, $14, 304 pages.

The Epic of Gilgamesh, translated by Andrew George. Penguin, 2003, $14, 304 pages.

The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt. Bloomsbury, 1986, $17, 320 pages.

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone by Tennessee Williams. New Directions, 1950, $14, 160 pages.

Tin Man by Sarah Winman. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2017, $13, 224 pages.

NON-FICTION

I, John Kennedy Toole by Kent Carroll and Jodee Blanco. Pegasus Books, 2020, $18, 256 pages.

No House to Call My Home: Love, Family and Other Trangressions by Ryan Berg. Bold Type Books, 2016, $17, 320 pages.

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR

Born to be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery.  Little Brown, 2018, $25, 512 pages.

CIty Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara by Brad Gooch.  Harper Perennial, 1993, $13, 576 pages.  

Paris France by Gertrude Stein. Liveright, 1940, $12, 128 pages.

Queer and Loathing: Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone by David Feinberg. Penguin, 1994, $16, 288 pages.

POETRY

Eros in Boystown: Contemporary Gay Poems about Sex, edited by Michael Lassell. (Not currently in print, but available

from booksellers.) Crown Press, 1996, 57 pages.

Live Oak, with Moss by Walt Whitman; illustrated by Brian Selznick. Harry N. Abrams, 2019, $7, 192 pages.

DRAMA

Tea and Sympathy by Robert Anderson. (Not currently in print, but available from booksellers.) Samuel French, 1955, 92 pages.

ANTHOLOGIES

Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914,

edited by Mark Mitchell and David Leavitt. (Not currently in print, but available from booksellers.) Mariner Press, 1998, 

480 pages.

The Violet Quill Reader: The Emergence of Gay Writing after Stonewall, edited by David Bergman. St. Martin’s Press, 1994, 

$18, 410 pages.