Tuesday, October 20, 2026

BookMen DC's 2027 reading list

NOTE: This list includes books on the 2026 list that have not yet been scheduled (marked with one asterisk), as well as two new novels added by acclamation (marked with two asterisks). 

FICTION

Bath Haus: A Thriller by P.J. Vernon*

Creation by Gore Vidal

Enigma Variations by Andre Aciman

Finistère (Little Sister’s Classics Book 8) by Fritz Peters

Florenzer by Phil Melanson*

Hemlock and After by Angus Wilson*

Here the Whole Time by Vitor Martins, translated by Lorissa Helena

John of John by Douglas Stuart**

Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes by Henry Van Dyke

Lies with Man by Michael Nava*

Love Junkie by Robert Plunket*

Small Rain by Garth Greenwell*

The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

The Disappearers by Marlon James**

The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts by Louis Bayard*

Tramps Like Us by Joe Westmoreland

Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer

We the Animals by Justin Torres

NON-FICTION

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

The End of the Gay Rights Revolution by Roman McCrea

The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels Who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler by Chris Bryant

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR

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

Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade*

I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah’s Witness by Daniel Allen Cox

The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin by Daniel Brook

Theater Kid: A Broadway Memoir by Jeffrey Sellers

PLAYS

Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays by Mo Gaffney, Jordan Harrison, Moisés Kaufman, Neil LaBute, Wendy MacLeod, José Rivera, Paul Rudnick and Doug Wright; conceived by Brian Shnipper

POETRY

After the Fall: Poems Old and New (Pitt Poetry Series) by Edward Field

The Tradition by Jericho Brown

ANTHOLOGIES

Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington

Quarantine: A Lyrical Debut–LGBTQ South Asian Short Stories of Family, Identity and Universal Humanity by Rahul Mehta

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