Friday, September 29, 2023

The 2024 BookMen DC reading list

I thank everyone who nominated books and voted for them. Here are the results.  

Note that the list includes books on our 2023 list that have not yet been scheduled (marked with an asterisk), as well as a current anthology that will carry over into next year. It does not include our quarterly non-LGBTQ selections.


FICTION

Better Angel by Forman Brown (writing as Richard Meeker)*

Blackbird by Larry Duplechan

City of Night by John Rechy*

Fadeout (A Dave Brandstetter Novel) by Joseph Hansen*

Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epictranslated from the Akkadian and with essays by Sophus Helle*

My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket


Queer by William S. Burroughs*

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown*

The Buddha of Suburbia 
 by Hanif Kureishi

The Left Hand of Darkness  by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Words That Remain by Stenio Gardel, translated by Bruno Dantas Lovato

Winters Orbit by Everina Maxwell

NON-FICTION

In Cold Blood  by Truman Capote

The Celluloid Closet  by Vito Russo

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR

Oscar Wilde: A Life by Matthew Sturgis*

The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp

ANTHOLOGIES


Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Paul Guran*

Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski, edited by Philip Clark and Michael Bronski

Sanctuary: Short Fiction from Queer Asia, edited by Libay Linsangan Cantor and Yi-Sheng Ng

Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington by James Kerchick


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

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