1. the classics

• a single man — christopher isherwood (1964)
• annie on my mind — nancy garden (1982)
• giovanni’s room — james baldwin (1956)
• maurice — e. m. forster (1971)
• middlesex — jeffrey eugenides (2002)
• oranges are not the only fruit — jeanette winterson (1985)
• rubyfruit jungle — rita mae brown (1973)
• the charioteer — mary renault (1953)
• the color purple — alice walker (1982)
• tipping the velvet — sarah waters (1998)

2.1. young adult - fantasy/dystopian

• adaptation (adaptation #1) — malinda lo (2012)
• ash — malinda lo (2009)
• grasshopper jungle — andrew smith (2014)
• hero — perry moore (2007)
• hild — nicola griffith (2013)
• huntress — malinda lo (2011)
• love in the time of global warming — francesca lia block (2013)
• more than this — patrick ness (2013)
• pantomime (micah grey #1) — laura lam (2013)
• the dark wife — sarah diemer (2011)

2.2. young adult - realistic

• almost perfect — brian katcher (2009)
• aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe — benjamin alire sáenz (2012)
• ask the passengers — a. s. king (2012)
• blue boy — rakesh satyal (2009)
• chulito — charles rice-gonzález (2010)
• everything leads to you — nina lacour (2014)
• freakboy — kristin elizabeth clark (2013)
• i am j — cris beam (2011)
• kissing kate — lauren myracle (2007)
• lies we tell ourselves — robbin talley (2014)
• luna — julie anne peters (2006)
• parrotfish — ellen wittlinger (2007)
• starting from here — lisa jenn bigelow (2012)
• the god box — alex sanchez (2007)
• the house you pass on the way — jacqueline woodson (1997)
• the miseducation of cameron post — emily m. danforth (2012)
• the necessary hunger — nina revoyr (1997)
• two boys kissing — david levithan (2013)

3. adult

• affinity — sarah waters (1999)
• as meat loves salt — maria mccann (2001)
• fingersmith — sarah waters (2002)
• fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe — fannie flagg (1987)
• running with scissors — augusten burroughs (2002)
• the paying guests — sarah waters (2014)
• the song of achilles — madeline miller (2011)
• why be happy when you could be normal? — jeanette winterson (2011)

5.2. sequential art - graphic novels

• are you my mother? — alison bechdel (2012)
• calling dr. laura: a graphic memoir — nicole j. georges (2013)
• drama — raina telgemeier (2012)
• fun home: a family tragicomic — alison bechdel (2006)
• le bleu est une couleur chaude — ulie maroh (2010)
• marbles: mania, depression, michelangelo, and me — ellen forney (2012)
• skim — mariko tamaki and jillian tamaki (2008)
• wandering son (wandering son #1) — shimura takako, translated by matt thorn (2003, translation: 2011)