Gay Fiction Books of the 1980s
The 124 most-read gay fiction books first published between 1980 and 1989, led by A Boy's Own Story (1982), Queer (1985) and Enduring Love (1984).
This list collects 124 books from the 1980s by 84 authors, published between 1980 and 1989. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
A Boy's Own Story
Edmund White
Queer
William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris
Enduring Love
Ian McEwan
Dance on My Grave
Aidan Chambers
The Swimming-Pool Library
Alan Hollinghurst
The Lost Language of Cranes
David Leavitt
Earthly Powers
Anthony Burgess
Further Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin
More Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin
Closer
Dennis Cooper
Mr. Benson
John Preston
Family Dancing
David Leavitt
Babycakes (Tales of the City)
Armistead Maupin
Sure of You
Armistead Maupin
Between Men
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Significant Others
Armistead Maupin
The Motion of Light in Water
Samuel R. Delany
The Little Death
Michael Nava
Equal Affections
David Leavitt
Duluth
Gore Vidal
The Beautiful Room Is Empty
Edmund White
My Dearest Holmes
Rohase Piercy
A History of Shadows
Robert C. Reinhart
Collected Stories
Tennessee Williams
The last testament of Oscar Wilde
Peter Ackroyd
Jack
A. M. Homes
Perfect Freedom
Gordon Merrick
Goldenboy
Michael Nava
Gaywyck
Vincent Virga
Camere Separate
Pier Vittorio Tondelli
Worlds Apart
Camilla Decarnin, Eric Garber
The Object of My Affection
Stephen McCauley
Eighty-Sixed
Feinberg, David B.
Contract with the World
Jane Rule
Voor Een Verloren Soldaat
Rudi van Dantzig
Behold a Pale Horse
Lannon D. Reed
Changing Pitches
Steve Kluger
Entertainment for a Master
John Preston, Mirron Willis
Hold Tight
Christopher Bram
Good Behaviour
Molly Keane
Death Trick
Richard Stevenson
Nights in Aruba (Plume)
Andrew Holleran
The Man on the Bridge
Stephen Benatar
The Blue Star
Robert Ferro
In memory of Angel Clare
Christopher Bram
Blackbird
Larry Duplechan
Cody
Keith Hale
Old Rosa
Reinaldo Arenas
The Long Shot
Paul Monette
The Boys in Blue
Samuel M. Steward
Blue Heaven
Joe Keenan
Men Who Loved Me
Felice Picano
The Great Urge Downward
Gordon Merrick
28 Barbary Lane
Armistead Maupin
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The Complete Tales of the City [books 1-6]
Armistead Maupin
Franny, the Queen of Provincetown (Little Sister's Classics)
John Preston
Surprising Myself
Christopher Bram
Bodies and Souls
John Rechy
Now Let's Talk About Music
Gordon Merrick
I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore
Ethan Mordden
$tud
Samuel M. Steward
In Search of Gay America
Neil Miller
Why we never danced the Charleston
Harlan Greene
Otra Vez El Mar
Reinaldo Arenas
Ice Blues
Richard Stevenson
A Case of Knives
Candia McWilliam
I Once Had a Master and Other Tales of Erotic Love
John Preston
Second Son
Robert Ferro
Somewhere in the Night
Jeffrey N. McMahan
Eight Days a Week
Larry Duplechan
The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket
Weir, John
The Movie Lover
Richard Friedel
Nightwork
Joseph Hansen
On the Other Hand, Death
Richard Stevenson
Everybody Loves You
Ethan Mordden
Horse Crazy
Gary Indiana
Below the Belt & Other Stories
Samuel M. Steward
Obedience
Joseph Hansen
First Love/Last Love
C. Ortleb, Michael Denneny
Punishments
Francis King
The Boys and Their Baby
Larry Wolff
A Simple Suburban Murder
Mark Richard Zubro
Sweet Dreams (Mission of Alex Kane)
John Preston
Buddies
Ethan Mordden
Corporal in Charge of Taking Care of Captain O'Malley
Jack Fritscher
China House
Vincent Lardo
LAST PURITAN
George Santayana
Canary
Nathan Aldyne
A Different Love
Clay Larkin
A Measure of Madness
Gordon Merrick
Dreamlovers
Peter Fisher
Slashed to Ribbons in Defense of Love, and Other Stories
Felice Picano
One Last Waltz
Ethan Mordden
Renegade Hustler
Samuel M. Steward
Late in the Season
Felice Picano
Common Sons
Ronald L. Donaghe