Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Ite lista est: BookMen DC's 2022 Reading List

This list incorporates selections approved during last year's nomination process, but not yet scheduled; those are denoted with an asterisk.


FICTION

*A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale. 

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster. 

Alec by William di Canzio. 

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry. 

Just Above My Head by James Baldwin. 

Lie With Me by Philippe Bessone. 

*P.S. Your Cat Is DeadA Novel by James Kirkwood. 

Plays Well With Others by Allan Gurganus. 

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart. 

Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham. 

The Magician by Colm Toibin. 

*The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone by Tennessee Williams. 

NON-FICTION

Blood Brothers by Ernst Haffner. 

*No House to Call My Home: Love, Family and Other Transgressions by Ryan Berg. 

Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples by Rodger Streitmatter.

The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini.

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR

A Tale of Two Omars: A Memoir of Family, Revolution and Coming Out During the Arab Spring by Omar Sharif Jr. 

Careening into Gay Midlife by James Daniels. 

Everything in Its PlaceFirst Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks. 

Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death by Lillian Faderman. 


POETRY

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong. 

Puerilities: Erotic Epigrams of the Greek Anthology translated by Daryl Hine. 

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. 




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