All the World Beside
By: Garrard Conley
3.75
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England …
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1. The Emperor and the Endless Palace
By: Justinian Huang
3.52
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recogniti… read more
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"Despair not. History is carved by men who did not have their fathers' favor."-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace
"You mean like a past life?' Calvin says. Garden snorts. 'Are you for real?' 'Excuse me, this is a "yes and" environment, G,' Calvin replies, 'and billions of people around the world believe in reinca…"-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace
"[River] 'Maybe he was just trying to shake me off. I mean, why would he want to be with me?' Without warning, Calvin bonks me on the side of my head, not hard, though it startles me, and some wine sp…"-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace
2. 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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"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
3. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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4. Blessings
By: Chukwuebuka Ibeh
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, s… read more
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5. Anyone's Ghost
By: August Thompson
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more
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6. Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style
By: Paul Rudnick
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed writer Paul Rudnick, a riotously funny, perceptive, and life-affirming novel fol… read more
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"If all the world's a stage, gay people are often expected to understudy themselves, reinterpreting the truth of their performances, depending on who's out front, and who's paying their salary."-Paul Rudnick, Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style
7. Dayspring
By: Anthony Oliveira
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once a bold retelling of bibli… read more
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"when god died he died whimpering"-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
"the fox has a den and the bird has a nest only humans go homeless"-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
"when i sleep i remember days that never were. i dream a life i never saw and which i now see he never wanted..."-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
"saint sebastian was a roman soldier. hot idiot twink go-go dancer pass around party bottom of the lord pincushioned through with arrows"-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
8. All the World Beside
By: Garrard Conley
3.75
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England … read more
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9. 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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10. Ways and Means
By: Daniel Lefferts
3.84
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In Daniel Lefferts’s searing debut novel Ways and Means, a striving finance student confronts the l… read more
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11. In Tongues
By: Thomas Grattan
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more
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12. How We Named the Stars
By: Andrés N. Ordorica
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Set between the United States and México, Andrés N. Ordorica’s debut novel is a tender and lyrical … read more
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13. 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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"He reminded me of a scene from a movie, any movie: men standing in doorways, filling the space with their silence."-Craig Willse, Providence
14. Cinema Love
By: Jiaming Tang
3.86
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them. For over th… read more
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15. Coexistence: Stories
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.39
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more
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- adult
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"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
16. Four Squares
By: Bobby Finger
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of The Old Place comes a tender, funny, and fresh novel spanning the 1990s … read more
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17. Another First Chance
By: Robbie Couch
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
They Both Die at the End meets You’ve Reached Sam, in this heart-stopping speculative young adult n… read more
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18. We Are Only Ghosts
By: Jeffrey L. Richards
3.89
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1968: The customers at Café Marie don’t come just for the excellent coffee and pastr… read more
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19. The Future Was Color
By: Patrick Nathan
3.74
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling novel about making art, desire, and the inextricable link between the personal and the p… read more
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20. The History of Sound: Stories
By: Ben Shattuck
4.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A stunning collection of interconnected stories set in New England, exploring how the past is often… read more
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"[H]istory is personal, even when it isn't."-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories
"Only two months. The memories of fireflies and swimming naked in the waterfall did nothing but make very fine and long incisions in the membrane of contentedness I’d built up over the years—a good ho…"-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories
21. Hombrecito
By: Santiago Jose Sanchez
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant… read more
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