Cleanness
By: Garth Greenwell
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Anything I am you have use for is yours."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that makes so much seem possible, I love you, anything I am you have use for is yours."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
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1. The Swimming-Pool Library
By: Alan Hollinghurst
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an en… read more
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- gay
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- fiction
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3. Giovanni’s Room
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds h… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- novels
- queer
"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
4. Dancer from the Dance
By: Andrew Holleran
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic r… read more
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6. Rent Boy
By: Gary Indiana
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Danny is a rent boy, an architecture student, a waiter, and hot! Working his way through school see… read more
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7. Henry Henry
By: Allen Bratton
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry
8. The New Life
By: Tom Crewe
3.77
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- gay
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- adult
- queer
"Science requires a rational audience."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"True development does not respect comfort."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"-Tom Crewe, The New Life
9. Swimming in the Dark
By: Tomasz Jedrowski
4.26
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story o… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
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"Little sparks cause fires too."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
"I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
"Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
"See it as a game– everyone knows the rules. And if you can’t change them, there’s no point in worrying."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
10. Lie With Me
By: Philippe Besson
4.26
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- gay
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"Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"You get used to everything, even the defection of those you thought you were bound to forever."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
11. All Down Darkness Wide
By: Seán Hewitt
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming… read more
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- lgbt
- gay
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"When they said, 'I'm just scared that you'll be unhappy', what I really felt they were saying was 'I am scared that if you continue being yourself, we will make you unhappy."-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
12. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- gay
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- fiction
- contemporary
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13. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
By: Jeremy Atherton Lin
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more
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- lgbt
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"Gay is the opium of the people."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
14. 100 Boyfriends
By: Brontez Purnell
3.76
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An irreverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero … read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"You never stop looking like art to me"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"I, being what one therapist jokingly referred to as a “clinical sex addict,"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"I had fucked enough boys with Catholic damage to know that if he's wearing a crucifix, he's definitely a ho."-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"My only desire is to be desired. I feel like the whole equation cancels itself out and what it really means is I have no will—I can (at will) rip out all sense of self just so a boy can have one more…"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
15. Just by Looking at Him
By: Ryan O'Connell
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the star of Peacock’s Queer as Folk and the Netflix series Special comes a “funny, tender, and… read more
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- queer
"I used to believe it was a privilege to be loved by anybody. Not anymore."-Ryan O'Connell, Just by Looking at Him
16. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
By: Alexander Chee
4.39
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more
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- lgbt
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"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
17. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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18. Cleanness
By: Garth Greenwell
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- queer
"Anything I am you have use for is yours."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
19. Real Life
By: Brandon Taylor
3.80
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, f… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
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- queer
"Miller: "You are so determined to be unknowable." Wallace: "We are always unknowable."-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
"Memory sifts. Memory lifts. Memory makes due with what it is given. Memory is not about facts. Memory is an inconsistent measurement of the pain in one’s life."-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
"The truly awful thing about beauty is that it reminds us of our limits. Beauty is a kind of unrelenting cruelty. It takes truth, hones it to a terrifying keenness, and uses it to slice us to the bone."-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
"It's... mostly fine," Wallace admits, getting too close to the bone. He doesn't want to go back over the thing about how grief can feel diffuse and dense all at once, like a flock of birds in the sky…"-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
20. Disorderly Men
By: Edward Cahill
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Three gay men in pre-Stonewall NYC find their fates thrown together in the police raid of a Village… read more
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21. Providence
By: Craig Willse
3.27
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An introverted English professor falls for an enigmatic sophomore and is lured into a web of chaos … read more
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- lgbt
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"He reminded me of a scene from a movie, any movie: men standing in doorways, filling the space with their silence."-Craig Willse, Providence
