7 best-selling historical books like After Francesco by Brian Malloy

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After Francesco

By: Brian Malloy

4.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An Apple Books Best of the Month Selection Return to New York City and Minneapolis in 1988, at t…

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1. When We Rise: My Life in the Movement

By: Cleve Jones

4.34

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

The partial inspiration for the forthcoming ABC television mini-series from Academy Award-winning s… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • gay
  • queer
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2. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940

By: George Chauncey

3.84

Format: None pages, Paperback

Gay New Yorkbrilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet… read more

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  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt

3. 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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4. Family Meal

By: Bryan Washington

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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5. 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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  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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6. 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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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

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7. Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise

By: Jack Parlett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

* A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer * *A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE* *A Washington Post… read more

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  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • audiobook
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8. The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America

By: Eric Cervini

4.31

Format: 494 pages, Hardcover

The secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957… read more

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  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • audiobook
"What the hell ever happened to the concept of freedom and equality that we espouse?"

-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America

"And if society rejected him? ‘Why, society can,’ as he later described the realization. ‘They’ll lose more than I will."

-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America

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9. The Boyfriend Subscription

By: Steven Salvatore

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Equal parts sizzling, sweet and irresistibly fresh, Steven Salvatore’s The Boyfriend Subscription i… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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10. 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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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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11. The Prettiest Star

By: Carter Sickels

4.43

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it’s where Brian is from, where his fami… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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12. 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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  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"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

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13. Big Gay Wedding

By: Byron Lane

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An unashamedly proud, loud, and hilarious novel about a small town that’s forever changed by a big … read more

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  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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14. Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition

By: Anton Treuer

4.40

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions an… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
". . . we are souls. We have bodies, which are just temporary houses for our souls. . .The body is a container."

-Anton Treuer, Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition

"Here in the United States, very little effort has been made to voice formal apologies, make reparations, or pass political mandates about education. Yet this country was founded in part by genocidal …"

-Anton Treuer, Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition

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15. The Language of Love and Loss

By: Bart Yates

4.04

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

When his difficult mother is diagnosed with ALS, a sharp-witted yet sensitive artist reluctantly re… read more

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  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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16. 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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  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
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17. The Gay Best Friend

By: Nicolas DiDomizio

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

an alternate cover edition can be found here He's always been the token gay best friend. Now, st… read more

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  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Worryin only gives the small things big shadows"

-Nicolas DiDomizio, The Gay Best Friend

Cover of After Francesco by Brian Malloy

18. After Francesco

By: Brian Malloy

4.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An Apple Books Best of the Month Selection Return to New York City and Minneapolis in 1988, at t… read more

Similar categories in Brian Malloy's After Francesco book and Brian Malloy's After Francesco

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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19. First Time for Everything

By: Henry Fry

3.67

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

A novel about a down-on-his-luck gay man working out how he fits into the world, making up for lost… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing, and Self-Trust by Chloe Dulce Louvouezo

20. Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing, and Self-Trust

By: Chloe Dulce Louvouezo

4.25

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Foreword by Elaine Welteroth In this stunningly illustrated essay collection inspired by the popula… read more

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21. 1981-My Gay American Road Trip: A Slice of Our Pre-AIDS Culture

By: J D Doyle

3.42

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

1981. Rich with promise and possibility, the post-Stonewall era saw queer Americans standing up for… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer

13 Best fiction books like After Francesco by Brian Malloy

Transform Your Habits

Family Meal

Bryan Washington

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

Armistead Maupin

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Kingdom of Sand

Andrew Holleran

3.51

Transform Your Habits

The Boyfriend Subscription

Steven Salvatore

3.59

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24 best-selling fiction books like The Language of Love and Loss by Bart Yates

Transform Your Habits

You Only Call When You're in Trouble

Stephen McCauley

3.45

Transform Your Habits

Best Men

Sidney Karger

3.34

Transform Your Habits

Bloom

N.R. Walker

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Small Joys

Elvin James Mensah

3.94

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