LGBT HISTORY MONTH
February 2010
The following lists are based on a selection of adult titles with LGBT themes
held in Merton Libraries. They may be reserved at any Merton Library.
183.2
306.7
618.2086
306.7680
153.35
158.1086
613.0866
396.2208
306.8742
362.8292
184
306.7084
306.8740
613.95
Mind, body and spirit
Ahbel-Rappe, Sara
Socrates: a guide for the perplexed
Bloomfield, Barbara
The Relate guide to finding love
Brill, Stephanie
The new essential guide to lesbian
conception, pregnancy and birth
Brill, Stephanie
The transgender child: a handbook for
families and professionals
Gelb, Michael
Think like Da Vinci
Hardin, Kimeron
Loving ourselves: the gay and lesbian
guide to self-esteem
Kerr, Shelly
Preventative health measures for lesbians
and bi-sexual women
Meriano, Gino
Civil partnerships: guide to the perfect day
Morgen, Kenneth
Getting Simon: two gay doctors’ journey to
fatherhood
Renzetti, Claire M
Violence in gay and lesbian relationships
Robinson, Dave
Introducing Plato
Smedley, Keren
Who’s that sleeping in my bed? The art of
successful relationships for grown-ups
Snow, Judith
How it feels to have a gay or lesbian
parent
Vass, Alex
Gay sex, gay health: all you need to know
History of LGBT life
306.7663 Jennings, Rebecca
A lesbian history of Britain
909.822
Moore, Lucy
Anything goes: a biography of the roaring
twenties
306.8153 Nicholson, Virginia
Singled out: how two million women
survived without men after World War 1
306.7609 Stern, Keith
Queers in history: the comprehensive
encyclopedia of historical gays, bisexuals
and transgenders
809.892
Toibin, Colm
Love in a dark time: gay lives from Wilde
to Almodovar
306.7090 Weeks, Jeffrey
The world we have won: the remaking of
erotic and intimate life
780.4216
910.4092
782.4216
782.4216
Music and dance
Buckley, David
Elton John: the Rocket Man
Connelly, Charlie
In search of Elvis
Davis, Sharon
A girl called Dusty
Faithfull, Marianne
Memories, dreams and reflections
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792.8092
782.4216
792.8028
782.4216
782.4216
792.8028
782.4216
780.922
792.8092
791
Garafola, Lynn
Goddard, Simon
James, Russell
Joplin, Laura
Jovanovic, Rob
Kavanagh, Julie
Mercury, Freddie
Nicholas, Jeremy
Ostwald, Peter
Summers, Claude J
780.92
Zamoyski, Adam
792.0280
792.0280
791.4509
791.4302
791.4302
791.4302
791.4509
791.4302
791.4302
792.0280
791.092
792.0280
791.4032
791.4302
Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
Mozipedia: Morrissey and the Smiths
The Maud Allan affair
Love Janis
George Michael
Rudolf Nureyev: a life
Freddie Mercury: a life in his own words
The great composers
Vaslav Nijinski: a leap into madness
Queer encyclopedia of music, dance and
musical theatre
Chopin
Stage and screen
Barratt, Mark
Ian McKellen
Barrowman, John
I am what I am
Bowyer, Alison
Graham Norton laid bare
Chandler, Charlotte
Not the girl next door: Joan Crawford
Coldstream, John
Dirk Bogarde
Eliot, Marc
Cary Grant: a biography
Herbert, Emily
Gok Wan
Kanfer, Stefan
Somebody: the reckless life and
remarkable career of Marlon Brando
Levy, Emanuel
Vincente Minnelli
Munn, Michael
Lord Larry, a personal portrait
Sherrin, Ned
Ned Sherrin: the autobiography
Spoto, Donald
Otherwise engaged: the life of Alan Bates
Ursini, James
Dietrich
Wayne, Jane Ellen
The life and loves of Barbara Stanwyck
Crime and espionage
Clarkson, Wensley
Death at every step: the true story of a
gay serial killer
327.1244 Hamrick, S J
Deceiving the deceivers: Kim Philby,
Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess
364.1523 Miller, Neil
Sex-crime panic: a journey to the paranoid
heart of the 1950s
364.152
O’Leary, Laurie
Ronnie Kray: a man among men
364.082
Rafter, Nicole
Encyclopedia of women and crime
364.1523 Rother, Caitlin
Twisted triangle: a famous crime writer, a
lesbian love affair and the FBI husband’s
violent revenge
364.152
Medicine and science
530.092
Ackroyd, Peter
Isaac Newton
610.7309 Bostridge, Mark
Florence Nightingale: the woman and her
legend
511.3
Petzold, Charles
The annotated Turing: a guided tour
through Alan Turing’s historic paper on
computability and the Turing machine
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943.1550
948.5034
937.0509
938.0709
942
947.0509
940.415
942.0320
942.0360
973.9170
943.6
Politics and war
Beck, Gad
An underground life: memoirs of a gay
Jew in Nazi Berlin
Buckley, Veronica
Christina, Queen of Sweden
Freeman, Philip
Julius Caesar
Heckel, Waldemar
Alexander the Great: a new history
Horspool, David
The English rebel: one thousand years of
trouble-making
Hughes, Lindsay
Peter the Great
Lawrence, T E
Seven pillars of wisdom
Miller, David
Richard the Lionheart
Phillips, J R S
Edward ll
Roosevelt, Curtis
Too close to the sun: growing up in the
glorious shadow of Franklin and Eleanor
Waugh, Alexander
The house of Wittgenstein
Writers and artists
759.6
Barnes, Rachel
Salvador Dali
822.914
Bennett, Alan
Untold stories
759.972
Burrus, Christina
Frida Kahlo: I paint my reality
823.912
Byrne, Paula
Mad world: Evelyn Waugh and the secrets
of Brideshead
746.9209 Charles-Roux, E.
Chanel: her life, her world
759.2
Ficcaci, Luigi
Francis Bacon
823.912
Hastings, Selina
Secret lives of Somerset Maugham
823.912
Mansfield, Katherine
Journal of Katherine Mansfield
759.2
Melia, Paul
David Hockney
821.7
O’Brien, Edna
Byron in love
709.2
Penck, Stefanie
Michelangelo
820.9009 Roiphe, Kate
Uncommon arrangements: seven portraits
of married life in London literary circles
828.809
Robbins, Ruth
Oscar Wilde
Poetry, plays and anthologies
823.92
Batten Rex
Rid England of this plague
822
Crystal, Ben
Shakespeare on toast: getting a taste for
the bard
828.01
Dexter, Gary
Poisoned pens: literary invective from
Amis to Zola
812.52
Hughes, Langston
Political plays of Langston Hughes
812
Kushner, Tony
Angels in America
821.92
Mannix, Aoifee
Growing up an alien
822.3
Marlowe, Christopher Complete plays
809.3003 Rennison, Nick
The Bloomsbury good reading guide
884.01
Sappho
Stung with love: poems and fragments
821
Sassoon, Siegfried
The war poems
821.8
Tennyson, Alfred
In memoriam
808.8035 Vasudevan, A.
Poems and readings for weddings and
civil partnerships
812.54
Williams, Tennessee Sweet bird of youth and other plays
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Arnott, Jake
Baldwin, James
Beers, Georgia
Bennett, Alan
Black, Ronica
Burroughs, William S
Burston, Paul
Burton, Peter
Canning, Peter
Cannon, Julie
Capote, Truman
Cather, Willa
Clary, Julian
Duffy, Stella
Forster, E M
Garnett, Angelica
Gogol, Nikolai
Hughes, Langston
James, Henry
Kallmaker, Karin
Kerouac, Jack
Leavitt, David
MacGregor, K G
Mann, Thomas
Mansfield, Katherine
Maugham, W S
Maupin, Armistead
Murdoch, Iris
Nichols, Brad
Nin, Anais
Picano, Felice
Picardie, Justine
Polito, Frank
Proulx, Annie
Radclyffe
Rechy, John
Renault, Mary
Sackville-West, Vita
Sanderson, Mark
Sontag, Susan
Thorne, Simone
Walker, Alice
Waters, Sarah
Waugh, Evelyn
Wilde, Oscar
Winterson, Jeannette
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Woolf, Virginia
Fiction
The devil’s paintbrush
Another country
Mine
The uncommon reader
The seeker
The naked lunch
The gay divorcee
A casualty of war (short stories)
Between men (best new gay fiction)
Heartland
Other voices, other rooms
The bohemian girl
The devil in disguise
The room of lost things
Maurice
The unspoken truth
Dead souls
Not without laughter
The American
The dawning
Wish I was here
The Indian clerk
Worth every step
Death in Venice
The garden party and other stories
Of human bondage
Michael Tolliver lives
The bell
Best gay love stories 2010
Delta of Venus
Looking glass lives
Daphne
Drama queers
Fine just the way it is
Encounters
City of night
The Persian boy
All passion spent
Snow Hill
In America
Best lesbian love stories 2010
The colour purple
The little stranger
Brideshead revisited
The picture of Dorian Gray
The stone gods
Mary and the wrongs of woman
A room of one’s own
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