 | The Swimming-pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.51 A cutting and often amusing portrait of a vanishing way of gay life
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 | A Boy's Own Story (Picador Books) by Edmund White
Buy used from: £0.01 A classic account of growing up gay at a time when attitudes were very different from now
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 | Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.27 With plotlines more convoluted than the average soap opera, Maupin's novels have lost none of their power to delight
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 | Books of Blood Omnibus: v. 1 by Clive Barker
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £0.70 Barker's novels can often seem laboured and clunky, but his short stories remain as chilling as ever
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 | Approaching Our Destination by Peter Campbell
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £10.28 Surreal and oddly disconcerting short stories
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 | Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
Buy used from: £7.51 a graphic novel describing the intertwined birth of gay liberation and black rights
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 | Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £6.66 Genet's novel, written while in prison, is unpredictable, shocking, and wonderfully written
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 | Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by William S. Burroughs
Buy used from: £3.00 Burrough's book, once described as pornographic, is in fact blacky funny, and a modern classic
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 | Dream Boy by Grimsley
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £6.50 As dreamy as the title suggests, this is an unusual look at familiar gay themes
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 | Was by Geoff Ryman
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 A very modern take on The Wizard of Oz. Simply stunning
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