Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Ite lista est: The 2026 BookMen lineup

NOTE: This list includes books on the 2025 list that have not yet been scheduled (marked with an asterisk), as well as a couple of anthologies we have already begun (marked with two asterisks). 

FICTION

Bath Haus: A Thriller by P.J. Vernon

Falconer by John Cheever

Florenzer by Phil Melanson

Hawk Mountain by Conner Habib*

Hemlock and After by Angus Wilson

I’ll Take It by Paul Rudnick

Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig

Lies with Man by Michael Nava

Love Junkie by Robert Plunket*

Small Rain by Garth Greenwell*

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (NOTE: Because of its heft, we’ll discuss this novel over third-Wednesday sessions.)

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray*

The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts by Louis Bayard

The Wrong People by Robin Maugham

NON-FICTION

American Scare: America’s Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives by Robert W. Fieseler

The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo*

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR

Before Night Falls: A Memoir by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Delores M. Koch

Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade

Not My Father’s Son: A Memoir by Alan Cumming*

PLAYS

Picnic by William Inge

The Rolling Stone (Modern Plays) by Chris Urch

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (as revised by the playwright in 2006) by Edward Albee*

ANTHOLOGIES

A Place I’ve Never Been by David Leavitt

Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity by Lee Mandelo (Editor)

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**

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