Alec
By: William di Canzio
4.21
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
William di Canzio's Alec, inspired by Maurice, E. M. Forster's secret novel of a happy same-sex lov…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Did they all see through him? Risley, Mrs. W? This was something new about being queer, this innuendo and subterfuge, and it sickened him."-William di Canzio, Alec
If you liked the lgbt plot in Alec by William di Canzio , here is a list of 19 books like this:
1. Maurice
By: E.M. Forster
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
2. Fellow Travelers
By: Thomas Mallon
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the highly acclaimed author of Bandboxand Dewey Defeats Truman-a searing new historical novel … read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
3. Nocturnes for the King of Naples
By: Edmund White , Michael Denneny
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Noctunes for the King of Naples has all the startlin… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
4. The Charioteer
By: Mary Renault
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' … read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
5. A Boy's Own Story
By: Edmund White
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A B… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
Similar categories in Philippe Besson's In the Absence of Men book and William di Canzio's Alec
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
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- historical fiction
- queer
7. At Swim, Two Boys
By: Jamie O'Neill
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Praised as "a work of wild, vaulting ambition and achievement" by Entertainment Weekly, Jamie O'Nei… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
8. The City and the Pillar
By: Gore Vidal
4.67
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
A literary cause celebrewhen first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal's now-classic Th… read more
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9. 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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10. 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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- romance
- literary fiction
- m m romance
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- 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
11. 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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- romance
- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 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
12. In Memoriam
By: Alice Winn
4.53
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- queer
"It’s intimate."-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Call me Sidney,"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Where’s the rest of it?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Do you believe in magic?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
13. 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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- romance
- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"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
14. 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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- romance
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"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
15. The Kingdom of Sand
By: Andrew Holleran
3.51
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
One of the great appeals of Florida has always been the sense that the minute you get here you have… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- queer
"It is a fact seldom observed that after a certain age a single man is a creature no one has a place for"-Andrew Holleran, The Kingdom of Sand
"When the American novelist Howard Sturgis lay on his deathbed he was cared for so solicitously by his life partner that at one point Sturgis had to remind him, "A watched pot never boils"—surely one …"-Andrew Holleran, The Kingdom of Sand
16. The Dove in the Belly
By: Jim Grimsley
4.17
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
At the University of North Carolina, Ronny's made some friends, kept his secrets, survived dorm lif… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- m m romance
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"Ben was shaking now, sobbing. Ronny watched and let it happen. Ronny wrapped Ben in the blanket. "I came to every game," he said."-Jim Grimsley, The Dove in the Belly
17. The Boy in the Rain
By: Stephanie Cowell
4.07
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
It is 1903 in the English countryside when Robbie, a shy young art student, meets the twenty-nine-y… read more
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- romance
- m m romance
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- queer
18. Alec
By: William di Canzio
4.21
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
William di Canzio's Alec, inspired by Maurice, E. M. Forster's secret novel of a happy same-sex lov… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- m m romance
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- queer
"Did they all see through him? Risley, Mrs. W? This was something new about being queer, this innuendo and subterfuge, and it sickened him."-William di Canzio, Alec
19. 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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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- queer
20. Snow Boys
By: Simon Doyle
4.35
Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition
Dean O’Donnell is a wallflower with a secret and a voice that could steal the show. Preferring to b… read more
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- romance
- m m romance
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
21. The Duke at Hazard (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #2)
By: K.J. Charles
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Don't miss the second thrilling Regency romance in the Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune series by KJ … read more
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- romance
- m m romance
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- queer
