6 best-selling queer books like Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts by James M. Saslow

Cover of Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts by James M. Saslow

Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts

By: James M. Saslow

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Covering the history of homosexuality in art, this comprehensive chronicle of gay and lesbian visua…

If you liked the queer plot in Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts by James M. Saslow , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

1. The Well of Loneliness

By: Radclyffe Hall

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disgu… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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2. Go Tell It on the Mountain

By: James Baldwin

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more

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Cover of Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) by Hilary Mantel

3. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more

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4. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

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  • cultural
  • lgbt
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

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5. In the Absence of Men

By: Philippe Besson , Frank Wynne

4.19

Format: 384 pages,

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  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt

6. Steppenwolf

By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more

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7. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

8. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

By: Tony Kushner

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more

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9. Another Country

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more

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10. Shakespeare's Sonnets

By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones

4.45

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more

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11. Unhinged (Necessary Evils, #1)

By: Onley James

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Adam Mulvaney lives a double life. By day, he’s the spoiled youngest son of an eccentric billionair… read more

Similar categories in Onley James's Unhinged (Necessary Evils, #1) book and James M. Saslow's Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts

  • queer
  • lgbt
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12. Psycho (Necessary Evils, #2)

By: Onley James

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

August Mulvaney has always been exceptional. As the genius son of an eccentric billionaire, his off… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"I want to keep him."

-Onley James, Psycho (Necessary Evils, #2)

"How do you know what meds I take?"

-Onley James, Psycho (Necessary Evils, #2)

"August didn’t hesitate. “I love you."

-Onley James, Psycho (Necessary Evils, #2)

"One man’s torture is another man’s kink."

-Onley James, Psycho (Necessary Evils, #2)

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13. Moonstruck (Necessary Evils, #3)

By: Onley James

4.31

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

Atticus Mulvaney is the eldest son of eccentric billionaire, Thomas Mulvaney—a role he takes very s… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"I’m not gay,"

-Onley James, Moonstruck (Necessary Evils, #3)

"I heard screaming,"

-Onley James, Moonstruck (Necessary Evils, #3)

"This is such bullshit,"

-Onley James, Moonstruck (Necessary Evils, #3)

"You’re covered in blood,"

-Onley James, Moonstruck (Necessary Evils, #3)

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14. Power Plays & Straight A's (CU Hockey, #1)

By: Eden Finley

3.95

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

FOSTER “Look out for Zach and don’t hit on him.” My brother’s request sounds easy enough. Kee… read more

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  • lgbt
"Umm … well, how do you, like, choose if you’re a top or a bottom?"

-Eden Finley, Power Plays & Straight A's (CU Hockey, #1)

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15. Goal Lines & First Times (CU Hockey, #3)

By: Eden Finley

4.06

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

COHEN It turns out making out with my best friend in high school could be considered gay. Who kn… read more

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  • lgbt
Cover of Face Offs & Cheap Shots (CU Hockey, #2) by Eden Finley

16. Face Offs & Cheap Shots (CU Hockey, #2)

By: Eden Finley

4.20

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

JACOBS For the last three years, I’ve lived and breathed hockey with one goal: team captain. … read more

Similar categories in Eden Finley's Face Offs & Cheap Shots (CU Hockey, #2) book and James M. Saslow's Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts

  • lgbt
Cover of Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts by James M. Saslow

17. Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts

By: James M. Saslow

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Covering the history of homosexuality in art, this comprehensive chronicle of gay and lesbian visua… read more

Similar categories in James M. Saslow's Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts book and James M. Saslow's Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts

  • cultural
  • art history
  • art
  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer

10 must-read lgbt books like Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts by James M. Saslow

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The Well of Loneliness

Radclyffe Hall

4.35

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Death in Venice

Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

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In the Absence of Men

Philippe Besson , Frank Wynne

4.19

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Unhinged (Necessary Evils, #1)

Onley James

4.13

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Onley James

4.31

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Brea Alepoú

4.08

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Take Me Apart (Vitale Brothers, #1)

Brea Alepoú

3.99

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Grae Bryan

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