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 …
Want to Read $ 9.49"He reminded me of a scene from a movie, any movie: men standing in doorways, filling the space with their silence."-Craig Willse, Providence
"He reminded me of a scene from a movie, any movie: men standing in doorways, filling the space with their silence."-Craig Willse, Providence
If you liked the queer plot in Providence by Craig Willse , here is a list of 21 books like this:
1. You Should Be So Lucky
By: Cat Sebastian
4.39
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance about grief and found family, b… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"Sometimes you want to look at a guy and say: Well, he’s fucked, but he’s trying."-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
"But he also wants that feeling he had earlier, that feeling of being seen for who he is, and of being liked anyway."-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
"This urge to be kind to a relative stranger is unfamiliar and disconcerting, as if he's discovered in himself a hunger for raw meat or an enthusiasm for vaudeville."-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
"The actual problem is incredibly boring, and Mark hates admitting it even to himself. Unless a couple has the good fortune to get hit by the same freight train, their story ends in exactly one way. H…"-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
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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- 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
3. Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Franci… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- queer
4. Evenings and Weekends
By: Oisín McKenna
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more
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- adult
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
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5. The [Fake] Dating Game
By: Timothy Janovsky
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Ready. Set. Faux . Holden James picked the worst time to have a meltdown. His chance to audit… read more
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- romance
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"Because, despite everything, I want to see the good in people"-Timothy Janovsky, The [Fake] Dating Game
"Amber bulbs dangle on white strings above our heads, making everyone in the restaurant look like a cartoon character with a bright idea."-Timothy Janovsky, The [Fake] Dating Game
"Under the roar of the crowd, Leo whispers into my ear. "You are full of surprises." "On the night we met, you said surprises aren't all they're cracked up to be." "You're the exception to the rule." …"-Timothy Janovsky, The [Fake] Dating Game
6. 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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- romance
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
7. Bury Your Gays
By: Chuck Tingle
4.29
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- queer
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
8. 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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- romance
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"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
9. 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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- romance
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
10. 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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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
11. 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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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
12. 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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- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- adult
- queer
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
Want to Read $ 9.49Similar categories in Craig Willse's Providence book and Craig Willse's Providence
- romance
- mystery thriller
- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- queer
"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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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
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
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"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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- adult
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
17. Nearlywed
By: Nicolas DiDomizio
3.85
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
An engaged couple's compatibility is put to the test during their ill-fated early honeymoon in this… read more
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- romance
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
18. You Had Me at Happy Hour
By: Timothy Janovsky
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this sexy, emotionally satisfying LGBTQIA+ romance, a grumpy sommelier and a flirty mixologist j… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
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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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
20. 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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- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- queer
21. No Road Home
By: John Fram
3.84
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A young father must clear his name and protect his queer son when his wealthy new wife’s televangel… read more
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- mystery thriller
- lgbt
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- queer
