Green I own, blue I’ve read, red I’ve read since posting list.

1. Horatio Alger, Ragged Dick or, Street Life in New York

2. Clive Barker, Imajica

3. James M. Barrie, Peter Pan

4. William Beckford, Vathek

5. Aphra Behn, Oronooko

6. E.F. Benson, Make Way for Lucia

7. Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

8. Poppy Z. Brite, Exquisite Corpse

9. Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

10. Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffmann

11. John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle

12. Bruce Chatwin, On the Black Hill

13. Samuel R. Delany, Triton (aka Trouble on Triton)

14. Patrick Dennis (pseudonym of Edward Everett Tanner III), Auntie Mame

15. Norman Douglas, South Wind

16. Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

17. Brett Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

18. John Fox, The Boys on the Rock

19. Henry Blake Fuller, Bertram Cope’s Year

20. Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

21. Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

22. Juan Goytisolo, Marks of Identity

23. Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against the Grain

24. Sarah Orne Jewett, Country of the Pointed Firs

25. Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

26. Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O…

27. John Knowles, A Separate Peace

28. Larry Kramer, Faggots

29. Nella Larsen, Passing

30. David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes

31. Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness

32. Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk

33. H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth

34. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

35. Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City Series

Tales of the City (1978)

More Tales of the City (1980)

Further Tales of the City (1982)

Babycakes (1984)

Significant Others (1987)

Sure of You (1989)

Michael Tolliver Lives (2007)

36. James McCourt, Mawrdew Czgowchwz

37. Michael Nava, Henry Rios Series (seven novels)
The Little Death (1986)

Goldenboy (1988)

How Town (1990)

The Hidden Law (1992)

The Death of Friends (1996)

The Burning Plain (1997)

Rag and Bone (2001)

38. Edward Prime-Stevenson (under pseudonym “Xavier Mayne”), Imre

39. Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

40. Frederick William Rolfe (under pseudonym “Baron Corvo”), Hadrian VII

41. Bram Stoker, Dracula

42. Bayard Taylor, Joseph and His Friend

43. Bruno Vogel, Alf

44. Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

45. Patricia Nell Warren, The Front Runner

46. Anna Weirauch, The Scorpion

47. Denton Welch, In Youth is Pleasure

48. Glenway Wescott, The Grandmothers

49. Thornton Wilder, The Cabala

50. Cornell Woolrich, I Married a Dead Man6 years ago