(*** we voted our best book of the year)
2005
November Maurice – E. M. Foster
2006
January The story of the Night – Coim Toibin
February 50 Reasons to say Goodbye – N. Alexander
March The Folding Star – A. Hollinghurst
April Running with Scissors – A. Burroughs
May Gents – W. Collins
June Shiva and Arun – P. Parivaraj
July Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
September Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
October Dorian – Will Self
November The Night Watch – Sara Waters
December The Liar – Stephen Fry
? The Way We Are Now – ed. Ben Summerskill
? Goodbye to Berlin – C. Isherwood
2007
January City of Night – J. Rechy
February Wrong Rooms – Mark Sanderson
March Mr. Norris Changes Trains– C. Isherwood
April Strange Meeting – Susan Hill
May Johnny Come Home – M. Arnott
June The Back Passage – J. Lear
July Orange bitter Orange Sweet – Anthony McDonald
September The Talented Mr. Ripley – P. Highsmith
October Notes on a Scandal – Zoe Heller
November Hotel de Dream – Edmund White
December Conundrum – Jan Morris
2008
January “Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud” by Shaun Considine
February Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
March Two Gentlemen Sharing by William Corlett
April A Density of Souls – Christopher Rice
May Mapp and Lucia – E. Benson
June Other Voices, Other Rooms – Truman Capote
July Notes on an Exhibition – P. Gale
September The Charioteer by Mary Renault
October Forbidden Colours by Yukio Mishima and A.H. Marks
November Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar by Coim Toibin
December Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
2009
January Flesh and Blood – M. Cunningham
February Born to be Gay
March At Swim Two Boys ***
April Strange Boy
May Yacoubian Building
June One Hot Summer in St.Petersburg by Duncan Fallowell
July Cleopatra’s Wedding Present: Travels Through Syria by Robert Tewdwr Moss
August Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman
September The Devil’s Paintbrush by Jake Arnott
October Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett ***
November The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer by David Leavitt
December Moab is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
2010
January The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives by Sebastian Faulks
February De Profundis, Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings (Wordsworth Classics) by Oscar Wilde
March Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
April Our Lady of the Flowers – Jean Genet
May The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
June Now is the Hour by Tom Spanbauer
July A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
August Pulp Friction by Michael Bronski
September Probation by Tom Mendicino
October The Page Turner – D. Leavitt
November More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
December By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
2011
January Sellevision: A Novel by Augusten Burroughs
February Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones
March The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst
April The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man’s World by Alan Down
May Hero Perry Moore
June In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann’s: The Way by Swann’s Vol 1 (In Search of Lost Time 1) Marcel Proust
July The History Boys Alan Bennett ***
August Mysterious Skin Scott Heim
September Enemy of the Good, The Michael Arditti
October London Triptych Jonathan Kemp
November Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill
December Vincent River (Modern Plays) by Philip Ridley
2012
January While England Sleeps by David Leavitt:
February West End Front by Matthew Sweet
March My Night With Reg by Kevin Elyot
April The Book Of Salt – Monique Truong
May The Swimming Pool Library Alan Hollinghurst
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