Top 100 Gay Novels List

[reviews_and_ramblings]

After more than a year since I drafted the first top list, it's time to see what happened ;-) When I started this list, at first I thought at a top 20, than top 40 and in the end I have a Top 100, since there are too many books and authors and all of them deserve a mention.

First of all a bit of 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 (first of all the Lambda Literary 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 an year, and if in April 2010 I will be still here, 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/608113.html

11-20: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/607976.html

21-30: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/607614.html

31-40: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/607389.html

41-50: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/607191.html

51-60: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/606883.html

61-70: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/606491.html

71-80: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/606222.html

81-90: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/606198.html

91-100: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/605711.html

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

External Link to the Top 100 Gay Novels List (wanted - with photos)

Comments

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's some serious company! I'm very honoured indeed to be on the list :) (Must change my photo, though. I'm sure I have a nicer one somewhere!)

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Thank you ;-) I took the photo from your interview, you are welcome to change it, since it will remain in the "WANTED" list!!! Elisa

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) I think the fault must be in me rather than the photo, though, because I can't find a better one anywhere - unless I go back 20 years!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I recently gave one of my photo for an interview that was 10 years old... it was the only one I liked! Elisa

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

LOL! Good idea. I'll have to do the same in future :)