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…
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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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2. The Lost Language of Cranes
By: David Leavitt
3.72
Format: 78 pages,
David Leavitt's extraordinary first novel, now reissued in paperback, is a seminal work about famil… read more
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3. 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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4. The Front Runner (Harlan's Story, #1)
By: Patricia Nell Warren
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
First published in 1974, The Front Runner raced to international acclaim - the first novel about ga… read more
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5. A Single Man
By: Christopher Isherwood
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving p… read more
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6. 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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7. What Belongs to You
By: Garth Greenwell
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia's Na… read more
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8. 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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10. The Beauty of Men
By: Andrew Holleran
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
A universal tale of loneliness, aging, and the desires of the human heart, Holleran's long-awaited … read more
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11. 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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12. City of Night
By: John Rechy
3.85
Format: 128 pages,
When John Rechy's explosive first novel, City of Night, was first published in 1963, it became a na… read more
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13. 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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14. 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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15. Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
By: Kathryn Harrison , Paul Monette
4.18
Format: 411 pages, Paperback
A child of the 1950s from a small New England town, "perfect Paul" earns straight A's and shines in… read more
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16. 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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"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
17. Pity
By: Andrew McMillan
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and … read more
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18. 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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"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
19. An Honest Man
By: Ben Fergusson
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In West Berlin in 1989, eighteen-year-old Ralf has just left school and is living a final golden su… read more
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"Like all of my friends, I’d seen the ubiquitous soft-core pornography on late-night German television that our English relatives found scandalous. Police interviews, maths lessons, doctors’ visits tu…"-Ben Fergusson, An Honest Man
20. 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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"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
21. 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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"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
