Green I own, blue I’ve read, red I’ve read since posting the list.
1. Anger, Kenneth – Hollywood Babylon
2. Auden, W.H. – The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays
3. Augustine of Hippo [St. Augustine] – Confessions
4. Bacon, Francis (1561–1626) – The Essays, Civil and Moral
5. Bacon, Francis (1909–1992) (with David Sylvester) – The Brutality of Fact
6. Bagemihl, Bruce – Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity
7. Baldwin, James – The Fire Next Time & Nobody Knows My Name [two related books]
8. Barney, Natalie Clifford – Thoughts of an Amazon & More Thoughts of an Amazon [two related books]
9. Barthes, Roland – S/Z
10. Bashô, Matsuo – Narrow Road to the Deep North
11. Beaton, Cecil – Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1926–1974
12. Benedict, Ruth – Patterns of Culture
13. Bernstein, Leonard – The Unanswered Question
14. Bishop, Elizabeth (ed. by Robert Giroux) – One Art: Letters
15. Bowles, Jane (Auer) – Letters
16. Bowles, Paul – Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue
17. Brecht, Bertolt – Brecht on Theatre
18. Burroughs, William S. – The Adding Machine
19. Byron, George Gordon, Lord (ed. by Leslie A. Marchand) – Letters and Journals
20. Caesar, Julius – Commentaries on the Gallic Wars
21. Cage, John – Silence: Lectures and Writings
22. Cammermeyer, Margarethe – Serving in Silence
23. Carson, Rachel – Silent Spring
24. Casement, Roger – The Black Diaries
25. Cellini, Benvenuto (trans. by gay-rights pioneer John Addington Symonds) – Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
26. Cixous, Hélène – The Book of Promethea
27. Cocteau, Jean – The White Book & Diary of a Film: Beauty and the Beast [two contrasting books]
28. Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle) – The Pure and the Impure
29. Copland, Aaron – What to Listen for in Music
30. Coward, Noël (ed. by Graham Payn & Sheridan Morley) – The Noël Coward Diaries
31. Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la (trans. by Electa Arenal & Amanda Powell) – The Answer / La Respuesta
32. Cullen, Countee – My Soul’s High Song: The Collected Writings of Countee Cullen, Voice of the Harlem Renaissance
33. Dickinson, Emily (ed. by Thomas Johnson) – Letters
34. Doty, Mark – Heaven’s Coast
35. Eisenstein, Sergei – The Film Sense & The Film Form [two related books]
36. Eliot, T.S. – Selected Essays
37. Fassbinder, Rainer Werner (ed. by Michael Töteberg & Leon A. Lensing) – Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, Notes
38. Flanner, Janet – Paris Journal
39. Forster, E.M. – Aspects of the Novel
40. Frederick II [Frederick the Great (1712–1786)] (ed. by Jay Luvaas) – Frederick the Great on the Art of War
41. Genet, Jean – Prisoner of Love
42. Goodman, Paul – Growing Up Absurd
43. Goytisolo, Juan – Forbidden Territory
44. Hart, Moss – Act One: An Autobiography
45. Hildegard of Bingen (trans. by Sabina Flanagan) – Secrets of God: Writings of Hildegard of Bingen
46. Hopkins, Gerard Manley – Spiritual Writings
47. Hughes, Langston – The Big Sea: An Autobiography
48. Humboldt, Alexander von, Baron – Cosmos
49. Jarman, Derek – Dancing Ledge
50. James, Henry – The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces
51. Kerouac, Jack – The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
52. Ladies of Llangollen (Lady Eleanor Butler & the Honorable Sarah Ponsonby) (ed. by Mrs. G.H. Bell) – The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen
53. Lawrence, D.H. – Studies in Classic American Literature & Apocalypse [two related books]
54. Lawrence, T.E. – Seven Pillars of Wisdom
55. Leduc, Violette – La Bâtarde
56. Leonardo da Vinci – Notebooks
57. Lincoln, Abraham (ed. by Arthur Brooks Lapsley) – The Writings of Abraham Lincoln
58. Lister, Anne – Diaries
59. Lovecraft, H.P. – Supernatural Horror in Literature
60. Mann, Thomas – Essays of Three Decades
61. Mann, William J. – Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood 1910–1969
62. Marcuse, Herbert – Eros and Civilization
63. Matthiesen, F.O. – American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
64. Mead, Margaret – Coming of Age in Samoa
65. Melville, Herman – Typee & Omoo [two related books]
66. Michelangelo Buonarroti (trans. by Creighton Gilbert) – Letters (in Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo)
67. Mordden, Ethan – Broadway Babies: The People Who Made the American Musical
68. Murdoch, Iris – Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
69. Nietzsche, Friedrich – Thus Spake Zarathustra
70. Nin, Anaïs – Henry and June
71. Orton, Joe (ed. by John Lahr) – The Orton Diaries
72. Pasolini, Pier Paolo (ed. by Oswald Stack) – Pasolini on Pasolini
73. Plutarch – Parallel Lives of Noble Greeks and Romans
74. Proust, Marcel – Contre Sainte-Beuve
75. Przhevalsky, Nikolai Mikhailovich – Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet
76. Rustin, Bayard (ed. by Devon W. Carbado & Donald Weise) – Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
77. Sackville-West, Vita & Nigel Nicolson – Portrait of a Marriage
78. Sand, George (Amantine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin) – The Story of My Life
79. Santayana, George – The Life of Reason
80. Sarton, May – Journal of a Solitude
81. Saslow, James M. – Pictures & Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts
82. Schubert, Franz (ed. Otto Deutsch) – Franz Schubert’s Letters and Other Writings
83. Sedaris, David – Naked
84. Sontag, Susan – Against Interpretation & Styles of Radical Will [two related books]
85. Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Baroness de Staël-Holstein) – A Treatise on the Influence of the Passions Upon the Happiness of Individuals and of Nations
86. Stoddard, Charles Warren – South-Sea Idyls
87. Strachey, Lytton – Eminent Victorians
88. Sullivan, Louis H. – The Autobiography of an Idea
89. Taylor, Bayard – At Home and Abroad: A Sketch-Book of Life, Scenery, and Men
90. Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (ed. by Modeste Tchaikovsky) – Letters
91. Thomson, Virgil – Words With Music: A Composer’s View
92. Thoreau, Henry David – Walden
93. Warhol, Andy – The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
94. Weston, Edward (ed. by Nancy Newhall) – The Daybooks of Edward Weston
95. White, Minor – Mirrors, Messages, Manifestations
96. White, Patrick – Flaws in the Glass: A Self-Portrait
97. Whitman, Walt – Specimen Days
98. Williams, Tennessee (ed. by Albert J. Devlin & Nancy M. Tischler) – Selected Letters
99. Williams, Walter L. – The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture
100. Wittgenstein, Ludwig – Philosophical Investigations
