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1. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
This autobiography by the author of the long-running strip, Dykes to Watch Out For, deals with her childhood with a closeted gay father, who was an English teacher and proprietor of the local funeral parlor (the former allowed him access to teen boys). Fun Home refers both to the funeral parlor, where he put makeup on the corpses and arranged the flowers, and the family's meticulously restored gothic revival house, filled with gilt and lace, where he liked to imagine himself a 19th-century aristocrat.

2 Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back by Norah Vincent Former Los Angeles Times op-ed columnist Vincent [was] employed to trick dozens of people into believing her a man was carefully thought out. As "Ned," Vincent joined an all-male bowling league, dated women, worked for a door-to-door sales force, spent three weeks in a monastery, hung out in strip clubs... She creates rich portraits of the men she met in these places and the ways they behaved—as a lesbian, she's particularly good at separating the issues of sexuality from those of gender. But the most fascinating part of the story lies within Vincent herself—and the way that censoring her emotions to pass as a man provoked a psychological breakdown.

3. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, this book ends with its beginning in 1941 This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, Helen, Viv, Duncan... Their lives, and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. War leads to strange alliances...


4. Grief: A Novel by Andrew Holleran An understated, eloquent novel by Holleran (Dancer from the Dance) captures the pain of a generation of gay men who have survived the AIDS epidemic and reached middle age yearning for fidelity, tenderness and intimacy. The unnamed, silver-haired narrator has just relocated from Florida, where he cared for his recently deceased mother for the last 12 years, to Washington, D.C., to "start life over" and teach a college seminar on literature and AIDS.

5. Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino Seldom has a work of such careful intellectual rigor and fairness been so deeply touching. Yoshino, a law professor at Yale and a gay, Asian-American man, masterfully melds autobiography and legal scholarship in this book, marking a move from more traditional pleas for civil equality to a case for individual autonomy in identity politics. In questioning the phenomenon of "covering," a term used for the coerced hiding of crucial aspects of one's self, Yoshino thrusts the reader into a battlefield of shifting gray areas.

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