Gay & Lesbian Biographies & Memoirs

Last updated: January 2, 2012

1. Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs Published: August 29, 2006 Score: 20.24
2. Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi Published: November 1, 2010 Score: 13.31
3. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Signet Classics) by Harriet Jacobs and Myrlie Evers-Williams Published: January 1, 2000 Score: 4.75
4. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel Published: June 8, 2006 Score: 3.68
5. Tune In Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries by Tim Anderson Published: November 29, 2011 Score: 2.87
6. Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey to God. A Broken Mother's Search for Hope. by Christopher Yuan, Angela Yuan and Kay Warren Published: May 3, 2011 Score: 2.61
7. Me by Ricky Martin Published: November 2, 2010 Score: 2.18
8. Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering by Meredith Baxter Published: March 1, 2011 Score: 1.62
9. I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir (P.S.) by Josh Kilmer-Purcell Published: February 7, 2006 Score: 1.59
10. Like Me: Confessions Of A Heartland Country Singer by Chely Wright Published: May 1, 2011 Score: 1.36
11. Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring Published: July 19, 2011 Score: 1.33
12. Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man by Chaz Bono Published: May 10, 2011 Score: 1.21
13. The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World by Alan Downs Published: May 30, 2006 Score: 1.19
14. Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry Published: July 1, 2003 Score: 1.18
15. My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of Aids by Abraham Verghese Published: May 10, 1994 Score: 1.17
16. She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan Published: August 10, 2004 Score: 1.17
17. The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant by Dan Savage Published: June 5, 2000 Score: 0.7
18. Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts Published: April 13, 2004 Score: 0.65
19. The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed by Judy Shepard Published: May 25, 2010 Score: 0.6
20. Covering: The Hidden assault on American Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino Published: November 2, 2011 Score: 0.59
21. Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir by Susie Bright Published: March 22, 2011 Score: 0.53
22. The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family by Dan Savage Published: September 26, 2006 Score: 0.52
23. Alice in Genderland: A Crossdresser Comes of Age by Richard J. Novic Published: April 1, 2005 Score: 0.52
24. The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir by Staceyann Chin Published: February 9, 2010 Score: 0.51
25. Benedetto Casanova - The Memoirs by Marten Weber Published: March 18, 2011 Score: 0.49