Book list: GLBT authors pick their faves

It's the time of year for lists!  Oh, I love 'em. And Band of Thebes has an awesome one!  — The Best LGBT Books of 2010: 80 Authors Select Their Favorites. I've cut and pasted (below) just four of the dozens and dozens of favorite titles.

WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO ADD YOUR OWN PERSONAL FAVORITES TO the comments section! And if you're a blogger, perhaps you'd like to vote for your favorite book over at this Blogger's Choice GLBT lit. awards (which I have to admit I know nothing about).

Rigoberto González, author of Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa:

Steven Cordova, Long Distance. A book of poetry that's also a personal exploration of one gay man's identity as a New Yorker and a person living with HIV. The body and anti-body coexist within the larger body of the city–the muse that inspires verse from every unexpected encounter at every familiar street.

Kevin Killian, author of Impossible Princess:

The best book of the year is Eileen Myles' Inferno: A Poets Novel. Two other fine novels: Daniel Allen Cox' Krakow Melt and Robin and Ruby by K.M. Soehnlein. And more poetry—Tony Leuzzi's Radiant Losses; Jeffrey Jullich: Portrait of Colon Dash Parenthesis; and Other Flowers, previously uncollected poems by the late James Schuyler. Four 2010 biographies of unconventional entertainers—Sam Irvin's Kay Thompson, Justin Spring's Secret Historian, Michael Michaud's Sal Mineo, and Jeff Gordon's Foxy Lady: The Authorized Biography of Lynn Bari—duke it out on my bookshelves. I actually don't know if biographer Jeff Gordon is gay, but if he's not, I'm Mary Queen of Scots.

Wayne Koestenbaum, author of Hotel Theory:

James Schuyler, Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems, edited by James Meetze and Simon Pettet.  The great Schuyler is dead, and won't be writing any new books;  let's treasure this last bouquet of remnants, flights, experiments, slumbers, asides, still lives, epistles, and contemplations.  From "Stele":  "I will suck you off in Athens / and carry your seed in my mouth / to your friend in Syracuse."

Emanuel Xavier, author of If Jesus Were Gay & Other Poems

James Baldwin's The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings edited and with an introduction by Randall Keenan is my favorite LGBT book of 2010.  Provocative and prophetic, this collection features essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews from one of the most inspiring literary figures of our community.  It's quite fascinating to read his thoughts on everything from the possibility of an African-American president to the hypocrisy of religious fundamentalism to the black church in America.