Gay Fiction Books of the 2000s
The 525 most-read gay fiction books first published between 2000 and 2009, led by A Little Life (2008), Call Me by Your Name (2007) and The Sluts (2005).
This list collects 525 books from the 2000s by 351 authors, published between 2000 and 2009. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.

A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara

Call Me by Your Name
André Aciman

The Sluts
Dennis Cooper

The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst

Boy Meets Boy
David Levithan

The Story of a Marriage
Andrew Sean Greer

Hero
Perry Moore

The Laramie Project
Moisés Kaufman, Tectonic Theater Project

The Danish Girl
David Ebershoff, Noa Shavit

Michael Tolliver lives
Armistead Maupin

Almost Like Being in Love
Steve Kluger

The Cutting Room
Louise Welsh

Cut & Run
Abigail Roux, Madeleine Urban

The Book of Salt
Monique T. D. Truong

Homosex
Simon Sheppard

Dorian
Will Self

Queer Pulp
Susan Stryker

Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
Shyam Selvadurai

Yaoi Hentai
Yamila Abraham, Laila Reimoz

Basketball Jones
E. Lynn Harris

Zero at the Bone
Jane Seville

Rough Stuff
Patrick Califia, Simon Sheppard

Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander
Ann Herendeen

Men Who Love Men
William J. Mann

The Family Man
Elinor Lipman

En L'absence Des Hommes
Philippe Besson

Uncle Max
Chris Kenry

Every Frat Boy Wants It
Todd Gregory

Pulp Friction
Michael Bronski

Wounded
Percival L. Everett

Best Gay Romance 2008
Richard Labonté

Plastic Jesus
Poppy Z. Brite

Fatal Shadows
Josh Lanyon

Brokeback Mountain. Story to Screenplay
Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry

When The Stars Come Out
Rob Byrnes

Horror
Stephen Pagel, Nicola Griffith

Edinburgh
Alexander Chee

Warrior's Cross
Madeleine Urban, Abigail Roux

Connections
Sheila O'Flanagan

Grief
Andrew Holleran

Rag and Bone
Michael Nava

Soul Mates
Jourdan Lane

The God Eaters
Jesse Hajicek

Wicked Gentlemen
Ginn Hale

Martin Baumann
David Leavitt

Box Hill
Adam Mars-Jones

Catalina
Markus Orths

Alliance In Blood
Ariel Tachna, Laurent Tigrou

Full Circle
Michael Thomas Ford

Hornito
Mike Albo

Male Model
Dave Benbow

Thy Neighbor's Wife
Georgia Beers

Dark Reflections
Samuel R. Delany

The Martian Child
David Gerrold

Banana Fish
Akimi Yoshida

The Back Passage
James Lear

I Say a Little Prayer
E. Lynn Harris

Impossible Princess
Kevin Killian

Sellevision
Augusten Burroughs

Bear Me Safely Over
Sheri Joseph

The Order of the Poison Oak
Brent Hartinger

Changing Tides
Michael Thomas Ford

Got 'til It's Gone
Larry Duplechan

My Lucky Star
Joe Keenan

Without Reservations
J. L. Langley

Object of Desire
William J. Mann

I Am My Own Wife
Doug Wright

A House Is Not a Home
James Earl Hardy

Black Like Us A Century Of Lesbian Gay And Bisexual African American Fiction
Dwight A. McBride, Devon W. Carbado

Period
Dennis Cooper

Gods and Monsters
Christopher Bram

The Good Neighbor
Jay Quinn

One Night Stand
Ben Tyler

Troll
Johanna Sinisalo

Love's Tender Warriors
Radclyffe

I Never Fancied Him Anyway
Claudia Carroll

Tom Of Finland The Complete Kake Comics
Dian Hanson

Blood Lust
M. Christian, Todd Gregory

Beauty Salon
Mario Bellatin

Tricks of the Trade
Ben Tyler

Biceps of Death
David Stukas

Chaos
Edmund White

Love the One You're With
James Earl Hardy

Porn!
Ian Philips, Greg Wharton
In the Absence of Men
Philippe Besson

Death of a Pirate King
Josh Lanyon

Mother of Sorrows
Richard McCann
My Fair Captain
J. L. Langley

Smile as They Bow
Nu Nu Yi

What We Remember
Michael Thomas Ford

Lost Gay Novels
Anthony Slide

Baby Remember My Name
Michelle Tea

The Conversion
Joseph Olshan

Izzy and Eve
Neal Drinnan

Light Before Day
Christopher Rice

Alternatives to Sex
Stephen McCauley