The Male Gazed
By: Manuel Betancourt
3.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Featuring deep dives into thirst traps, drag queens, Antonio Banderas, and telenovelas—all in the s…
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1. 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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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
2. 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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3. 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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- adult
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"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
4. 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
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
5. 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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- audiobook
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
"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
6. Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture
By: Matt Baume
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
There's a secret storyline hidden across some of the most popular sitcoms of the 20th century. F… read more
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- audiobook
- pop culture
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
7. Tweakerworld
By: Jason Yamas
4.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Meet Jason: a college educated documentary film producer, cat parent of two, and one of San Francis… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
8. Let's Get Back to the Party
By: Zak Salih
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
What Does It Mean to Be a Gay Man Today? It’s just weeks after the historic Supreme Court marriage … read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
- adult
- audiobook
9. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
By: Greg Marshall
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
10. 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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- audiobook
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"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
11. Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path
By: Marcus McCann
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long l… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto
By: Zachary Zane
3.82
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of the Year by Buzzfeed A sex and relationship columnist b… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- queer
13. 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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- adult
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
14. Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
By: Anthony Veasna So
4.11
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub By the New… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- queer
"We're minorities within minorities, I'd often repeat to my friend, in an attempt to subdue his frustration with the compounding obstacles of his life."-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
"You can only keep up the precarious act of sustaining this fantasy of a better world for so long when not much has actually changed in our favor. But as long as there's something new in our queue, af…"-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
"But—please, hear me out—don't you think difference breathes in the expanses that lie amid your monotonous thoughts? Even as you see in the future only suicide, your mind fosters so many novel meaning…"-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
15. 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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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
- adult
- audiobook
16. 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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- adult
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
17. 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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- adult
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"He reminded me of a scene from a movie, any movie: men standing in doorways, filling the space with their silence."-Craig Willse, Providence
18. The Male Gazed
By: Manuel Betancourt
3.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Featuring deep dives into thirst traps, drag queens, Antonio Banderas, and telenovelas—all in the s… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- pop culture
- gay
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- queer
19. 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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- audiobook
- adult
- queer
- 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
20. 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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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
- adult
- audiobook
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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