The Best LGBT Books of 2014

        

    

 

January

Armistead Maupin, The Days of Anna Madrigal [Kindle].

Christos Tsiolkas, Barracuda.

Darwin Porter, Pink Triangle: The Feuds and Private Lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Famous Members of Their Entourages.

Drewey Wayne Gunn, 1960s Gay Pulp Fiction: The Misplaced Heritage.

Frank Spinelli, Pee-Shy.

Sean Strub, Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival.

Tove Jansson, Sculptor's Daughter: A Childhood Memoir. An all-time favorite author.

 

 

February  

 

Catherine Reid, Falling into Place: An Intimate Geography of Home.

Clifford Chase, The Tooth Fairy: A Memoir.

Edmund White, Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris.

Edward White, The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America.

Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word.

Mark Wunderlich, The Earth Avails: Poems.

Masha Gessen, Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot.

Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman.

 

March

Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer. Novel of EM Forster's first trip to India in 1912.

 

April

Douglas Coupland, Worst. Person. Ever.

Emma Donoghue, Frog Music [Kindle]. In San Francisco in 1876, a French burlesque dancer named Blanche Beunon tries to solve the murder of her friend Jenny Bonnet. 

Ivan Coyote & Rae Spoon, Gender Failure.

J.D. McClatchy, Plundered Hearts: New and Selected Poems.

Rupert Smith, Interlude.

Spencer Reese, The Road to Emmaus: Poems.

Tom Spanbauer, I Loved You More. His first novel in seven years, cause for major celebration. A gay love triangle in 80s New York and Portland, with flashbacks to an Idaho childhood. Until April, read his novels The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, In the City of Shy Hunters, Now Is the Hour, and his 1989 novella recently released with an introduction by A.M. Homes, Faraway Places.

Val McDermid, Northanger Abbey. The lesbian crime writer reimagines Jane Austen's gothic novel.

 

May

Christopher Isherwood, The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy.

Edward St. Aubyn, Lost for Words. Not gay but writes as well as one.

Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen.

Stacey D'Erasmo, Wonderland.

 

 

June 

John Waters, Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America.

Jim Magruder, Let Me See It.

Tom Rob Smith, The Farm.

 

July  

Philip Hensher, The Emperor Waltz. Fourth-century Rome, 1920s Germany, and 1980s London.

 

August

How To Both, a novel by Ali Smith. 

 

September

Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests. In London in 1922, a family of women allow a modern young couple to live with them. Trouble ensues.

 

October

Colm Toibin, Nora Webster. A partial sequel to Brooklyn, set ten years later in Ireland.