Books about Women
Barnes, D. (1961). Nightwood. New York: New Directions.
Brown, R. (1973). Rubyfruit jungle. Plainfield, VT: Daughters, Inc.
Garden, N. (1982). Annie on my mind. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux.
Hall, R. (1993). The well of loneliness. New York: Quality Paperback Book Club.
Highsmith, P. (1993). The price of salt. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press.
Holoch, N. & Nestle, J. (1999). The Vintage book of international lesbian fiction. New York: Vintage Books.
Lorde, A. (1982). Zami, a new spelling of my name. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press.
Miller, I. (1969). Patience and Sarah. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Reynolds, M. (1994). The Penguin book of lesbian short stories. New York: Viking.
Sappho (1991). The love songs of Sappho. New York: Signet Classics.
Strachey, D. B. (1995). Olivia. New York: The Quality Paperback Club.
Walker, A. (1982). The color purple. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Waters, S. (2002). Fingersmith. New York: Riverhead Books.
Woolf, V. (1953). Mrs. Dalloway. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.
Books about Men
Baldwin, J. (1988). Go tell it on the mountain; Giovanni's room; The fire next time. New York: The Quality Paperback Club.
Capote, T. (1948). Other voices, other rooms. New York: Random House.
Forster, E. (1981). Maurice. New York: Norton.
Karlinsky, S., Lane, E. & Leyland, W. (1979). Now the volcano : an anthology of Latin American gay literature. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press.
Lawrence, D., Forster, E., Isherwood, C., Coward, N., Ackerley, J., Greene, G.,... & Mitchell, M. (1994). The Penguin book of gay short stories. New York: Viking.
Mann, T. & Chase, J. (1999). Death in Venice and other stories. New York: Signet Classic.
Mishima, Y. (1958). Confessions of a mask. New York: New Directions.
Tóibín, C. (2004). The master : a novel. New York: Scribner.
Vidal, G. (1965). The city and the pillar. New York: New American Library.
White, E. & James, H. (1991). The Faber book of gay short fiction. London Boston: Faber and Faber.
Whitman, W. (1950). Leaves of grass and selected prose. New York: Random House.
Wilde, O. (1995). The picture of Dorian Gray and selected stories. New York: Signet Classic.
Books about Transgender Folks
Ebershoff, D. (2000). The Danish girl : a novel. New York: Viking.
Feinberg, L. (1993). Stone butch blues : a novel. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books.
Woolf, V. (1973). Orlando; a biography. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Scholarly Sources
Foster, J. (1958). Sex variant women in literature. London: Frederick Muller.
Grier, B. (1981). The lesbian in literature. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press.
Kellogg, S. (1985). Essays on gay literature. New York: Harrington Park Press.
Nelson, E. (1993). Critical essays : gay and lesbian writers of color. New York: Haworth Press.
Sedgwick, E. (1985). Between men : English literature and male homosocial desire. New York: Columbia University Press.
Summers, C. (1995). The gay and lesbian literary heritage : a reader's companion to the writers and their works, from antiquity to the present. New York: H. Holt.
What's Next?
Furneaux, H. (2009). Queer Dickens: Erotics, families, masculinities. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Jáuregui, B. (2014). The avowal of difference : queer Latino American narratives. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Marcus, S. (2007). Between women: Friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.