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GAY MEN'S BESTSELLER LIST � JANUARY, 1996

HARDBACKS
This     Last     Months
Month   Month   On
1          1          2          YOU KNOW YOU�RE GAY WHEN, Joseph Cohen,
Contemporary, $22.00
2          6          2          IN DEFENSE OF BEAUTY, Tom Bianchi, Crown,
$12.00
3          2          4          VIRTUALLY NORMAL, Andrew Sullivan, Knopf,
$22.00
4          --         1          FAIRY TALES, Peter Cashorali,
HarperCollins, $18.00
5          --         1          YOUNG MAN FROM THE PROVINCES, Alan Helms,
Faber&Faber, $22.95
6          --         1          DRAG QUEEN, Robert Rodi, Dutton, $21.95 
7          4          3          PALIMPSEST, Gore Vidal, Random House, $27.50
8          8          2          CITY AND THE PILLAR..., Gore Vidal,
Random House, $24.00


PAPERBACKS 
This     Last     Months
Month   Month   On
1          --         6          MY FIRST TIME, ed. by Jack Hart, Alyson, $9.95
2          8          7          WHY GAY GUYS ARE...,  Karen Rauch & Jeff
Fessler, Fireside, $7.95
3          2          8          GROWING UP GAY, Funny Gay Males,
Hyperion, $9.95 
4          1          3          GLAMOURPUSS, Christian McLaughlin, Plume,
$10.95
5          9          8          JUST AS I AM, E. Lyn Harris, Anchor, $10.95 
6          4          2          FORTUNES OF WAR, Mel Keegan, Gay Men�s
Press, $10.95 
7          --         1          HIS, ed. by Robert Drake with Terry
Wolverton, Faber&Faber, $14.95
8          5          2          CLOSET, R. D. Zimmerman, Dell, $4.99 
9          --         1          RATTLER!, Cap Iversen, Alyson, $8.95
10        7          4          UNCHARTED LIVES, STanley Siegel/ Ed Lowe,
Jr., Plume, $10.95 

LESBIAN BESTSELLER LIST � JANUARY, 1996

HARDBACKS
This     Last     Months
Month   Month   On
1          2          3          VIRTUAL EQUALITY, Urvashi Vaid,
DoubleDay, $24.95
2          5          12        KEY TO EVERYTHING, ed. by Gerry Pearlburg,
St. Martins, $10.00 
3          4          4          MARTINA, Adrianne Blue, Birch Lane, $19.95
4          7          8          SEWING CIRCLE, Alex Madsen, Carol, $19.95 
5          8          3          TWO OR THREE THINGS..., Dorothy Allison,
Dutton, $14.95
6          --         2          PAXTON COURTS, Diane Salvatore, Naiad, $21.95
7          --         2          BABE, Susan E. Cayleff, University of
Illionis, $29.95
8          1          6          AND SAY HI TO JOYCE, Deb Price & Joyce
Murdoch, Doubleday, $23.95 
            
PAPERBACKS

This     Last     Months
Month   Month   On
1          2          3          DO WHAT I SAY, Meryl Cohn, Houghton
Mifflin, $10.95
2          1          3          UNNATURAL DYKES, Alison Bechdel,
Firebrand, $10.95
3          --         1          DOUBLE BLUFF, Claire McNab, Naiad, $10.95
4          9          4          BEACH AFFAIR, Barbara Johnson, Naiad, 10.95
5          --         8          MY SWEET UNTRACEABLE YOU, Sandra
Scoppetone, Ballentine, $5.99
6          3          4          SOME GIRLS, Kristin McCloy, Plume, $10.95 
7          --         1          BAR GIRLS, Lauran Hoffman, Naiad, $10.95
8          --         4          BAD COMPANY, Sara Dreher, New Victoria, $10.95
9          8          2          FOR EVERY EVIL, Ellen Hart, Ballantine, $5.99
10        --         1          DARK ANGELS, ed. by Pam Keesey, Cleis, $10.95

(This bestseller list reflects sales during the previous month in Lambda
Rising�s three retail bookstores in Washington, Baltimore, and Rehoboth
Beach, as well as national mail order sales and electronic sales through
Lambda Rising Online on America Online and through our Internet e-mail
address, lambdarising@his.com)

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