Top 100 Gay Novels List

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It's that time of the year again, when I update the Top 100 Gay Novels List. Some books went up, some went down, and there are also some new entries. For the first time it is with a sad heart that I have to record that one of the authors in the list is not more with us, E. Lynn Harris, he is a great loss of this past year. 

As usual some boring basic rules: the list considers only books released in print for the first time after January 1, 2000, so you can consider it a Top 100 List of the XXI century. If a book was released in electronic format before that date, and then in print after that date, I listed it. To enter the list I browsed all the LGBT publishers I found, considered all the specific awards and all the recommendation from friends. So friends, obviously I haven't read ALL the books, I, like you, am trying to read as much as possible, but the list is impartial, means that if I didn't like a book, or haven't read it yet, I nevertheless included it in the list.

To decide the ranking, again, I tried to be impartial: I chose to consider the owned copies in LibraryThing, a cataloguing website that seems to be "serious" and of common use; then I applied some adjustment factors to award both the longevity of a book than its novelty. If you want to be bored, ask and I will explain them, and obviously I'm also open to suggestion. For every author I considered only a book, the one with more owned copies, so the list is more a Top 100 Authors than a Top 100 Novels.

The actual list will remain frozen for 6 months, and in June 2010 I will reopened it and track the changes. In the meantime, I will continue to feature an author from that list every week, in my In the Spotlight appointment.

And now, come with me to see the names:

http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/tag/top+100+gay+novels+list (link to the tag for the single posts)

Link to the single posts:

1-10: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/904299.html

11-20: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/903969.html

21-30: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/903847.html

31-40: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/903426.html

41-50: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/903372.html

51-60: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/902964.html

61-70: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/902708.html

71-80: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/902460.html

81-90: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/902355.html

91-100: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/901955.html

101-110: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/901867.html

External Link to the Top 100 Gay Novels List (simple - without photos)

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