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14/05/2006
Tales of the City named best gay novel
Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin's six-volume chronicle of life in 1970s San Francisco, was named on Wednesday as Britain's favourite gay novel.
Maupin's series was chosen by public vote as part of the Big Gay Read competition.
The competition was launched last summer, inviting people to nominate the novels they "cherished above all others".
Maupin will collect his award at Manchester's Queer Up North festival.
Sarah Waters took second and joint fifth places with Tipping The Velvet and Fingersmith, while Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit came third.
Irish author Jamie O'Neill was in sixth place with his pre-Easter 1916 novel, At Swim, Two Boys.
25,000 people voted in the poll, which was a joint project between Manchester, Salford and Blackpool libraries, Commonword and Time to Read.
Top ten gay novels
1. Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City
2. Sarah Waters - Tipping the Velvet
3. Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
4. Jackie Kay - Trumpet
5. Sarah Waters - Fingersmith, Stella Duffy - Calendar Girl, Jake Arnott - The Long Firm
6. Jamie O'Neill - At Swim, Two Boys
7. Annie Proulx - Brokeback Mountain
8. Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty
9. Patricia Highsmith - Carol
10. Rita Mae Brown - Rubyfruit Jungle, Jane Rule - Desert of the Heart, Patrick Gale - Rough Music, Julia Darling - Crocodile Soup
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Bibliofemme reviews:
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry, by Jeanette Winterson
State of Happiness by Stella Duffy
Brokeback Mountain by E Annie Proulx
The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx
Bibliofemme interview: An interview with Sarah Waters
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