Felice Picano is considered a founder of modern gay literature.  With the other members of the Violet Quill Club, he founded the SeaHorse Press and Gay Presses of New York.  -- from Saints & Sinners

Fiction

• Smart As the Devil (1975) -- Finalist for P.E.N./Hemingway Award for First Fiction
  Psychological/occult thriller.

• Eyes (1976)
  Psychological thriller/love story.

• The Mesmerist (1977)
  Psychological thriller set in the US West, circa 1900.

• The Lure (1977)
  Psychological thriller set in New York gay world, this was the first gay novel to be taken by major book club.

• An Asian Minor: The True Story of Ganymede (1981)
  Comic novella on mythological theme.

• The Book of Lies (1998)
  Contemporary academic mystery/ comedy of manners.

• Late in the Season (1981)
  Contemporary love story.

• Slashed to Ribbons in Defense of Love and Other Stories (1983)
  Gay stories of contemporary life.

• House of Cards (1984)
  Drama of contemporary bigamy.

• To the Seventh Power (1990)
  Contemporary psychological/Sci-Fi thriller.

• Dryland's End (1995) - Finalist, 1995 Lambda Literary Award for Science/Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
  Sci-Fi epic.

• Like People in History (1995)
  Contemporary/Historical comic/tragic epic of gay life.

• Looking Glass Lives (1998)
  Contemporary & Historical psychological/occult thriller.

• The New York Years: Stories (2000)
  The New York Years: An Asian Minor/ and slashed to Ribbons in Defense of Love reprinted as two books in one

• Onyx (2001)
  Contemporary dramatic/comedy of gay life.

• Fred in Love (2004 release)
  Autobiographical novella.

Memoirs & Nonfiction

• Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children (1985)
  Memoir of 1950's suburban childhood of sex and drugs.

• Men Who Loved Me: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel (1989)
  Memoir of 1960's in Rome's Cinecitta & Greenwich Village around the time of the Stonewall Rebellion.

• The Joy of Gay Sex (1994+) with Charles Silverstein

• A House on the Ocean, a House on the Bay (1997)
  Memoir of gay New York City and Fire Island in the 1970's.

• The Deformity Lover and Other Poems (1978)
  Contemporary gay  poetry

• A True Likenesss: Lebian & Gay Writing Today (1980)
  First lesbian-gay anthology

• Window Elegies (1986)
  Contemporary love poetry

• Best Gay Erotica 1999 (1999) with Richard Labonte
  The year's best gay erotica, including  works by Carol Queen, D. Travers Scott, Justin Chin, Michael Lassell, Scott O'Hara, and others.

• The Burning Pen: Sex Writers on Sex Writing (2001)
  With M. Christian, ed. and Carol Queen, Cecilia Tan, Felice Picano, Jack Fritscher, Laura Antoniou, Lucy Taylor, Patrick Califia-Rice, Shar Rednour, Simon Sheppard, and Thomas Roche.

See also:

• The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture (2004) by David Bergman
  Study of Andrew Holleran, Edmund White, Felice Picano, and others gay writers.