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GLBT Classic Fiction simply includes early novels including GLBT characters or themes. We'll be adding more books to this section as they come back into print. If you have any suggestions for the glbt classics section, email us and let us know!!

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	All Books by James Baldwin - Author of : Another Country Paperback - 436 pages (February 1993) Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679744711 "GLBT Classic Fiction Books; Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends, Baldwin imbues the best and worst intentions of liberal America in the early 1970s." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Joanne Winning Bryher - Author of : Bryher: Two Novels: Development and Two Selves (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies) Paperback - 376 pages 1 edition (September 4, 2000) The University of Wisconsin Press; ISBN: 0299167747 "GLBT Autobiography/Biography; Blending poetry, prose, and autobiographical details, Development and Two Selves together constitute a compelling bildungsroman that is among the first ever to follow a young woman's process of coming out. Through the fictionalized character Nancy, the novels trace Bryher's life through her childhood and young adulthood, giving the reader an account of the development of a unique lesbian, feminist, and modernist consciousness. Development and Two Selves recover significant work by one of the first experimenters of the modernist movement and are a welcome reintroduction of the enigmatic Bryher." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Katharine Burdekin & All Books by Daphne Patai - Author of : Proud Man Paperback - 350 pages (September 1993) Feminist Pr; ISBN: 1558610677 "GLBT Classic Fiction Books; 1934 pub. - Using the device of time travel, Burdekin places a protagonist who is both male and female, comes from an advanced future civilization, and is identified as the Person in England of the 1930s....(more at Amazon)" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Truman Capote - Author of : Breakfast At Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories Hardcover Reprint edition (January 1994) Modern Library; ISBN: 067960085X "GLBT Classic Fiction Books; Starring its heroine, Holly Golightly, from the popular ">Breakfast at Tiffany's", this volume also contains three of Truman Capote's best-known short stories: "House of Flowers", "A Diamond Guitar", and "A Christmas Memory"." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Leonard Cohen - Author of : Beautiful Losers Paperback - 243 pages Reissue edition (November 1993) Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679748253 "GLBT Classic Fiction Books; One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen’s most defiant and uninhibited work. The novel centres upon the hapless members of a love triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk saint." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada:
	All Books by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus - Author of : The Angel and the Perverts (The Cutting Edge : Lesbian Life and Literature) Paperback - 227 pages (April 1996) New York University Press; ISBN: 0814750982 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "Lucie Delarue-Mardrus lived during the golden age of lesbian literature: Paris in the 1920s. Her work, like that of her pals Renee Vivien, Sarah Bernhardt, and Natalie Barney, explores the boundaries of gender, sex, and desire. This first English translation of The Angel and the Perverts tells the story of Marion/Mario, a hermaphrodite who travels as easily through lesbian salons as s/he does through gay men's dope dens. The rediscovery of this lost classic contributes much to contemporary gender studies. And the plot and style are a hoot." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Nicola Griffith - Author of : The Blue Place Paperback - 320 pages (June 8, 1999) Avon Books (Trd); ISBN: 0380790882 "GLBT Classic Fiction Books; Norwegian noir - Female 'Hero' - Lesbian/Bi Themes" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Ernest Hemingway - Author of : The Garden of Eden Paperback Reprint edition (September 1995) Scribner; ISBN: 0684804522 "GLBT Classic Fiction Books; A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by John Irving - Author of : The Hotel New Hampshire Mass Market Paperback - 419 pages Reissue edition (October 1995) Ballantine Books; ISBN: 034540047X "GLBT Classic Fiction Books; Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, the Berry family "dreams on" in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and A Son of the Circus." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by John Irving - Author of : The World According to Garp Paperback - 609 pages Reissue edition (August 1994) Ballantine Books; ISBN: 034536676X "GLBT Classic Fiction Books; This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes--even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow"; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries--with more than ten million copies in print--this novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Anais Nin - Author of : Cities Of The Interior Paperback - 609 pages (December 1975) Ohio Univ Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0804006660 "GLBT Classic Fiction Books; Short Stories - Bisexual Erotic Fiction" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Manuel Puig - Author of : Kiss of the Spider Woman Paperback - 281 pages Reissue edition (April 1991) Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679724494 "GLBT Classic Fiction Books; Molina is a middle-aged homosexual who passes the long hours in prison by acting out scenes from his favorite movies. Valentin is a young socialist revolutionary, who initially berates Molina for his effeminacy and his lack of political conviction. Sharing the hardships of a six-month prison term, the two eventually forge a strong relationship that becomes sexual." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Tom Robbins - Author of : Another Roadside Attraction Paperback - 337 pages Reissue edition (May 1990) Bantam Books; ISBN: 0553349481 "GLBT Classic Fiction Books; Features Bisexuality - Must Read Reviews" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Tom Robbins - Author of : Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Paperback - 365 pages Reissue edition (May 1990) Bantam Books; ISBN: 055334949X "GLBT Classic Fiction Books; Starring Sissy Hanshaw--flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match--hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bags... Featuring Bonanza Jellybean and the smooth-riding cowgirls of Rubber Rose Ranch. Chink, lascivious guru of yams and yang. Julian, Mohawk by birth; asthmatic esthete and husband by disposition. Dr. Robbins, preventive psychiatrist and reality instructor... Follow Sissy's amazing odyssey from Virginia to chic Manhattan to the Dakota Badlands, where FBI agents, cowgirls, and ecstatic whooping cranes explode in a deliciously drawn-out climax..." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by May Sarton - Author of : Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing Paperback - 224 pages Reissue (1993) The Women's Press; ISBN: 0704343339 "GLBT Classic Fiction Books; Detailing the experiences of a lesbian woman coming to terms with the terminus of her life and the art she has produced, this book bridges ideas and generations." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Angus Wilson - Author of : Hemlock and After Paperback - 246 pages (June 1997) Unknown; ISBN: 0312155441 "GLBT Classic Fiction Books; Pub. 1952 - Published in 1952 in England, Hemlock and After, Angus Wilson's first novel, was considered so shocking that his American publisher refused to accept it. Bernard Sands--novelist, liberal, humanist--sets out to establish a writers' colony which is to be the climax of his career. But Sands has powerful enemies, and his own life is also complicated by his wife's illness and his own homosexual affairs." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Virginia Woolf - Author of : Orlando: a Biography Paperback - 333 pages (May 1993) Harvest Books; ISBN: 015670160X *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "In 1928, way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending and way, way before the terrific movie with Tilda Swinton, Virginia Woolf wrote her comic masterpiece, a fantastic, fanciful love letter disguised as a biography, to Vita Sackville-West. Orlando enters the book as an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the book three centuries and one change of gender later as a liberated woman of the 1920s. Along the way this most rambunctious of Woolf's characters engages in sword fights, trades barbs with 18th century wits, has a baby, and drives a car. This is a deliriously written, breathless-making book and a classic both of lesbian literature and the Western canon." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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