BOOKMEN DC’s 2025 READING LIST
NOTE: This list includes books on the 2024 list that have not yet been scheduled (marked with an asterisk), as well as a current anthology that will carry over into next year (Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington).
FICTION
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Blackbird by Larry Duplechan*
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic, translated from the Akkadian and with essays by Sophus Helle*
Hawk Mountain by Conner Habib
Love Junkie by Robert Plunket
Moffie by Carl Andre van der Merwe
Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White (with new foreword by Garth Greenwell)
Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst
Small Rain by Garth Greenwell
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi*
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell*
NON-FICTION
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington by James Kerchick
(Note: We’re treating this as a third-Wednesday anthology due to its length.)
The Celluloid Closet by Vito Russo*
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Christopher and His Kind: A Memoir, 1929-1939 (FSG Classics) by Christopher Isherwood
Memoirs by Tennessee Williams (with introduction by John Waters)
Not My Father’s Son: A Memoir by Alan Cumming
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp*
PLAYS
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (as revised by the playwright in 2006) by Edward Albee
ANTHOLOGIES
Sanctuary: Short Fiction from Queer Asia, edited by Libay Linsangan Cantor and Yi-Sheng Ng*
Secret Anniversaries of the Heart: New and Selected Stories by Lev Raphael
Slashed to Ribbons in Defense of Love and Other Stories by Felice Picano
This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers by Elias Jahshan (editor)
