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Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.34 — 305,517 ratings — published 1956
Maurice (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.08 — 62,337 ratings — published 1971
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,012,971 ratings — published 1890
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.86 — 231,352 ratings — published 1872
The Price of Salt (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.02 — 89,519 ratings — published 1952
The Well of Loneliness (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,588 ratings — published 1928
Orlando (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 123,484 ratings — published 1928
Rubyfruit Jungle (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.91 — 48,941 ratings — published 1973
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 774,611 ratings — published 1982
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.72 — 98,425 ratings — published 1985
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.56 — 39,938 ratings — published 1993
A Single Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.05 — 39,228 ratings — published 1964
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.40 — 25,015 ratings — published 1982
The City and the Pillar (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.84 — 10,737 ratings — published 1948
Dancer from the Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,385 ratings — published 1978
Tipping the Velvet (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 81,540 ratings — published 1998
Confessions of a Mask (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.95 — 43,265 ratings — published 1949
Another Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.30 — 37,610 ratings — published 1962
Nightwood (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.60 — 15,430 ratings — published 1936
Notes of a Crocodile (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 13,178 ratings — published 1994
City of Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,284 ratings — published 1963
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 132,069 ratings — published 1945
Brokeback Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 57,192 ratings — published 1997
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.77 — 377,240 ratings — published 1925
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.27 — 335,635 ratings — published 1987
Annie on My Mind (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.02 — 57,140 ratings — published 1982
The Charioteer (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,866 ratings — published 1953
The Swimming-Pool Library (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.71 — 11,729 ratings — published 1988
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.47 — 8,914 ratings — published 1977
Patience & Sarah (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,320 ratings — published 1969
Tales of the City (Tales of the City #1)
by (shelved 7 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 49,109 ratings — published 1978
A Boy's Own Story (The Edmund Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.70 — 9,644 ratings — published 1982
The Line of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.78 — 33,487 ratings — published 2004
Death in Venice (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.67 — 74,339 ratings — published 1911
De Profundis (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.22 — 27,480 ratings — published 1897
Olivia (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,149 ratings — published 1949
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 427,969 ratings — published 1959
Our Lady of the Flowers (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,330 ratings — published 1943
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.47 — 25,674 ratings — published 1985
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 238,822 ratings — published 1969
Memoirs of Hadrian: And, Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 5 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.21 — 38,648 ratings — published 1951
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.42 — 22,846 ratings — published -550
Fingersmith (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.02 — 124,351 ratings — published 2002
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.07 — 209,370 ratings — published 2006
The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,798 ratings — published 1972
The Immoralist (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 3.54 — 14,207 ratings — published 1902
Christopher and His Kind (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,867 ratings — published 1976
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.02 — 24,058 ratings — published 1976
Hand in Hand with Love: An Anthology of Queer Classic Poetry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.27 — 257 ratings — published
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as queer-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 630,811 ratings — published 2007