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 Dead: A 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 Place: First 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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