RSSSummer Reading Recommendations from QUE(E)RY
Jul 01
As June comes to a close and the Pride parade has passed, the team from Que(e)ry would like to share our very favorites in GLBT literature:
- Billey Bibliographic Control -
It’s so hard to choose! There are so many great queer books! And how to decide? So many GLBT books comes into our lives at just the right time. When we are teenagers exploring our who we are, when we just want to identify with the characters a little better, or simply when they are just great works of literature that happen to be real gay. My choices fall into coming of age and good queer reads. (oh and I have a real soft spot for short stories that might sway my opinion)
Allison, Dorothy. 2002. Trash: stories. New York: Plume.
Baldwin, James. 1956. Giovanni’s room; a novel. New York: Dial Press.
Barnes, Djuna. 1937. Nightwood. [New York]: New Classics. 
Brown, Rebecca. 1994. The gifts of the body. New York: HarperCollins.
Feinberg, Leslie. 1993. Stone butch blues: a novel. Ithaca, N.Y.: Firebrand Books.
Sedaris, David. 2000. Me talk pretty one day. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
Winterson, Jeanette. 2007. The stone gods. Orlando: Harcourt.
- LOC Casanova / Tara -
Ok, my list of “5 favorite queer books” must be a list of books my Dad once sent me in the mail. Before I “officially” told my father I was queer, he gave me a number of books, telling me: “I bought these after discovering that my old girlfriend in high school was a lesbian…I think you should have them.”
His selections are endearing:
Hall, Radclyffe. 1928. The well of loneliness. Garden City, N.Y.: Sun Dial Press.
Sappho. 2002. Poems and Fragments. Indianapolis: Hackett.
Wittig, Monique. 1986. The lesbian body. Boston: Beacon Press.
Barnes, Djuna. 1937. Nightwood. [New York]: New Classics.
I also recommend the following:
Genet, Jean. 1974. Querelle. New York: Grove Press : distributed by Random House.
Mishima, Yukio. 1958. Confessions of a mask. Norfolk, Conn: New Directions.
Peraldi, François. 1995. Polysexuality. New York: Semiotext(e).
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