I've been asked for more information and am collecting the books/authors that are affected
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Author/title
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Level of explicitness/genre
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GLTB content?
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Censored on which amazon website
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Link (maybe even a screencap)?
Collection: Books that had their sales ranks removed:
Fiction
Out of a Top 100 Gay Novels List on Elisa Rolle's LJ almost all the books are "purged", including authors such as Jamie O'Neill, Edmund White, Andre Aciman. Link:
James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
Annie Proulx Brokeback Mountain
Stripped of sales rank on amazon.com, but not on amazon.ca
http://www.amazon.ca/BROKEBACK-MOUNTAIN-ANNIE-PROULX/dp/2246699215ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239562478&sr=1-3
Jeanette Winterson's OrangesAre Not The Only Fruit
Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness.
None of which can be called "erotica" by any stretch of the imagination.
(the only "sex scene" in The Well of Loneliness consists in its entirety of the words "And that night they were not divided.")
Alex Beecroft: False Colours, m/m historical romance, just broken through and ranking in top 10 historical novels-- i.e. non-romance, non-gay-- and then it suddenly disappeared entirely from the rankings. The novel is NOT erotica, contains only one non-explicit sex scene, but the central premise features two male characters falling in love.
http://www.amazon.com/False-Colors-M-Romance/dp/0762436581
The Kindle version of False Colors has a sales rank but has had the 'an m/m romance' taken off its name!
http://www.amazon.com/False-Colors-ebook/dp/B0026A6C3Q
Censored on Amazon.com
Alex Beecroft, Captain's Surrender
heat level mild; about one page of sex scenes all told in a book 196 pages long
http://www.amazon.com/Captains-Surrender-Alex-Beecroft/dp/1602020892
Censored on Amazon.com
The Kindle version of Captain's Surrender has no sales rank either.
Erastes Transgressions - similar case to False Colours, screen cap here:
Erastes Standish
Erastes Speak Its Name
Erastes Frost Fair
(on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk)
Storm Grant - Gym Dandy
Level of explicitness/genre: a RomCom with a heat level of 2 out of 5.
GLTB content?: boy meets boy
Censored on which amazon website: .com, .uk, and .ca*
Proof of sales rank:
Leslie Feinberg Stone Butch Blues
http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Butch-Blues-Leslie-Feinberg/dp/1555838537
http://www.amazon.de/Stone-Butch-Blues-Leslie-Feinberg/dp/1555838537
Sales rank removed
Rita Mae Brown Rubyfruit Jungle
http://www.amazon.com/Rubyfruit-Jungle-Rita-Mae-Brown/dp/055327886X
http://www.amazon.de/Rubyfruit-Jungle-Rita-Mae-Brown/dp/055327886X
Sales rank removed
Sarah Waters Tipping The Velvet now has no sales rank in one of its editions ...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tipping-Velvet-Virago-Sarah-Waters/dp/1860495249
http://www.amazon.com/Tipping-Velvet-Novel-Sarah-Waters/dp/1573227889/ref=pd_sim_b_2
http://www.amazon.de/Tipping-Velvet-Novel-Sarah-Waters/dp/1573227889/ref=
pd_sim_b_2
It still does in another edition:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tipping-Velvet-Sarah-Waters/dp/1844080110
The only difference seems to be that this one doesn't have the word "lesbian" anywhere in its "Look for similar items by subject".
E M Forster - Maurice
? ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239550630&sr=1-1
(Amazon.com - "Heat level" - neglegible)
(Sales rank removed)
Charlie Cochrane: Lessons in Love
http://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Love-Charlie-Cochrane/dp/1602021481/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239547504&sr=1-1
(no sex in the book)
(Sales rank removed)
Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man
http://www.amazon.com/Single-Man-Christopher-Isherwood/dp/0816638624/
Gay protagonist. I don't recall any explicit sex.
(Sales rank removed)
Edmund White's The Beautiful Room Is Empty
http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Room-Empty-Novel/dp/0679755403/
Haven't read, however, it's certainly critically acclaimed (as is A Single Man)
(Sales rank removed)
Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story
Both of the Edmund White novels do contain explicit sex scenes, but they're far from not "erotica", and they're acclaimed as literary classics.
(Sales rank removed)
Andrew Holleran's Dancer From The Dance
http://www.amazon.com/Dancer-Dance-Novel-Andrew-Holleran/dp/0060937068/
Gay protagonist. Non-explicit, though much is implied. Harold Robbins is steamier and retains his sales rank.
(Sales rank removed)
JL Langley's Tin Star (Amazon.ca)
(Sales rank removed)
James Buchanan: The Good Thief, Twice the Cowboy, Twice the Ride, Cheating Chance
(Only his print editions have had their sales rank stripped) Amazon.com
Screencap for Good Thief here:
More proof:
R W Day A Strong and Sudden Thaw Iris Press edition - has a ranking, Kindle version of the Lethe edition has a ranking. The print version of the Lethe edition does not (
When you search by title from the Amazon home page, the Lethe print edition doesn't even make the first page of results. In fact, the first hit is a book by another author with the same name as me, and the second is Ginn Hale's Wicke