GLBT Challenge -- Progress

Here's my progress list for the GLBT Reading Challenge for 2010. Amanda at The Zen Leaf is kindly hosting this wonderful challenge, which I am very excited about!

I'm signing up at the Pink Triangle level: read 8 books. There's no requirement for nonfiction in this challenge, but I'd like to read one or two nonfiction works if I can get my hands on some.

Books I've already read that would be great candidates for this challenge (in case anyone else is looking for ideas):

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt - gripping & hilarious nonfiction narrative about eccentric local characters in Savannah, GA
  
  
• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel - comics memoir about growing up and coming out while sifting through her parents' many secrets
  
  
• Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo by Ntozake Shange - a novel about three sisters who go their various ways in relation to Black Power, sexuality and spirituality
  
  
• A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan - a novel about a young man facing his demons and homophobia in a Southern black community
  
  
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf - exploration of gender and love, a tribute to Virginia's sometime lover, Vita
  
  
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - sweeping saga of a Greek-American hermaphrodite and the family background that created him
  
  
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - the bond between Charles and Sebastian is the heart of this classic story
  
  
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson - a beautiful, memoirish novel about growing up and discovering there is more to life than a traditional family upbringing
  

Completed:

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (fiction, 1964)

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (short story, 1997)

Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson (fiction, 1989)

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (comics, 2008)


List of possibilities:


Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (fiction, 2002)

Fledgling by Octavia Butler (fiction, 2005)

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (essays, 2000)

Maurice by E.M. Forster (fiction, written 1914, published 1971) -- recommended by Matt at A Guy's Moleskine Notebook

The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (fiction, 1995)

I'd like to add some more nonfiction to the list, but I'll have to look around a bit, or fish for suggestions. Memoirs or biographies might be the way to go, though I like essay collections as well. Any ideas?