Leading Men
By: Christopher Castellani
3.53
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An expansive yet intimate story of desire, artistic ambition, and fidelity, set in the glamorous li…
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1. The Spell
By: Alan Hollinghurst
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Here are the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield, an architect in his late forties tr… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
2. Michael Tolliver Lives (Tales of the City, #7)
By: Armistead Maupin
2.78
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the Cityseri… read more
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- fiction
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3. 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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- literary fiction
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4. The World of Normal Boys
By: K.M. Soehnlein
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
In his stunning debut novel, "The World Of Normal Boys, " K.M. Soehnlein captures the spirit of a g… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
5. Peyton Place
By: Ardis Cameron , Grace Metalious
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
First published in 1956, PEYTON PLACE uncovers the passions, lies and cruelties that simmer beneath… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
6. The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir
By: Josh Kilmer-Purcell
3.69
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
"I adore the Beekman boys' story. Their unlikely story of love, the land, and a herd of goats is hi… read more
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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- queer
"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
10. 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
- queer
11. Mother's Boy
By: Patrick Gale
4.16
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
One of the joys of Gale's writing is how even the smallest of characters can appear fully formed, d… read more
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- audiobook
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- queer
12. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
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- adult
- queer
13. 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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14. The Golem of Brooklyn
By: Adam Mansbach
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated t… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
15. 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
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"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
16. Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
By: Robert W. Fieseler
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Winner • Edgar Award (Best Fact Crime) Winner • Lambda Literary's Judith A. Markowitz Award for Eme… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- audiobook
17. Abundance
By: Jakob Guanzon
3.85
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction A wrenching debut about the causes and effects … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
18. Apartment
By: Teddy Wayne
3.78
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the 2020 Simpson / Joyce Carol Oates Literary PrizeOne of Vogue.com’s “Best Books of… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
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- adult
- queer
"Though I suppose each experience like this, just like everyone's loneliness, feels uniquely uncategorizable—the particular contours of another person's borders that collide with your own before leavi…"-Teddy Wayne, Apartment
"Until that point, I'd assumed that nearly everyone bore a certain amount of loneliness within them, it was just the human condition of being trapped inside one mind and body for a lifetime, so that w…"-Teddy Wayne, Apartment
19. 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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- literary fiction
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- adult
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20. Up With the Sun
By: Thomas Mallon
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A look back at the life of a little-known, C-list celebrity striver who met a bad end in New York C… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
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21. Leading Men
By: Christopher Castellani
3.53
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An expansive yet intimate story of desire, artistic ambition, and fidelity, set in the glamorous li… read more
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- italy
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