Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Some hopefully welcome election results

 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*


Winters 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)





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