Good LGBT fiction for LGBT folk and friends

aulsmith : I couldn't make it through this one.

thorold: Persian eunuch falls for Macedonian warlord.

thorold: Deploys every Irish cliché there is, but somehow gets away with it.

aulsmith : I liked the historical story, but I didn't find the genderqueer character very convincing.

thorold: Are you looking for a lesbian pentecostalist novel set in East Lancashire? Look no further.

aulsmith: This is rather depressing, but I liked the historical material.

thorold: Not a great novel, but worth reading because of when it was written and who wrote it.

thorold: The classic British gay novel.

thorold: Renault in a WWII hospital setting, not Greece for once. But still Plato.

thorold: Love it or hate it, this is one of the key books defining the moment in the 70s when LGBT writing started to be taken seriously.

thorold: White at his most infuriatingly self-important.

Aussiewoman: Classic early lesbian fiction.

aulsmith : I'm not fond of this one. It's sort of dreamy and post-modern. But if your friend likes Aciman's other work, it might be okay

aulsmith: This one is a bit over-the-top with bad things happening, but it is about working-class dykes and genderqueers, which isn't a perspective you often see in lgbt literature.