23 best-selling lgbt books like Address Book by Neil Bartlett

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Address Book

By: Neil Bartlett

3.91

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Address Book is the new work of fiction by the Costa-shortlisted author of Skin Lane. Neil Bartlett…

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1. A Place Called Winter

By: Patrick Gale

4.12

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

In the golden 1900s, Harry Cane, a shy, eligible gentleman of leisure is drawn from a life of quiet… read more

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  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
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2. The Folding Star

By: Alan Hollinghurst

4.11

Format: 176 pages,

Edward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. … read more

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  • gay fiction
  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt

3. Days Without End

By: Sebastian Barry

2.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, "a master storyteller" (Wall Street Jo… read more

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4. The Beautiful Room Is Empty

By: Edmund White

4.01

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual… read more

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5. The Complete Fairy Tales

By: Oscar Wilde

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde includes the two definitive story collections The Happy Pri… read more

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6. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

By: Huw Lemmey

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
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7. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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  • fiction
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8. Tiepolo Blue

By: James Cahill

3.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Ben turns and grins ironically. ‘When you stopped just now and looked at the sky, you weren’t measu… read more

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  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
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9. 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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  • fiction
  • 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

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10. 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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  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
"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

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11. The Whale Tattoo

By: Jon Ransom

3.75

Format: None pages, None

Cruelly beautiful, utterly authentic – introducing a searingly talented new Queer writer. When a… read more

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  • gay fiction
  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
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12. 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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  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
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13. 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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  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
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14. Bath Haus

By: P.J. Vernon

3.76

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Oliver Park, a young recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriet… read more

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  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of The Tea Master and the Detective (The Universe of Xuya) by Aliette de Bodard

15. The Tea Master and the Detective (The Universe of Xuya)

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.85

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled hu… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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16. Brotherless Night

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more

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  • fiction
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17. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

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  • fiction
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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18. 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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  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
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19. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

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  • fiction
  • lgbt
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20. Just by Looking at Him

By: Ryan O'Connell

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the star of Peacock’s Queer as Folk and the Netflix series Special comes a “funny, tender, and… read more

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  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
"I used to believe it was a privilege to be loved by anybody. Not anymore."

-Ryan O'Connell, Just by Looking at Him

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21. 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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  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma

22. What I'd Rather Not Think About

By: Jente Posthuma

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more

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  • fiction
"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

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23. Idlewild

By: James Frankie Thomas

4.14

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more

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  • fiction
  • lgbt
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"

-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild

Cover of Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto by Zachary  Zane

24. 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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  • gay
  • lgbt
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25. 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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  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
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26. Disorderly Men

By: Edward Cahill

4.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Three gay men in pre-Stonewall NYC find their fates thrown together in the police raid of a Village… read more

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  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of How We Named the Stars by Andrés N. Ordorica

27. How We Named the Stars

By: Andrés N. Ordorica

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Set between the United States and México, Andrés N. Ordorica’s debut novel is a tender and lyrical … read more

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  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of Providence by Craig  Willse

28. 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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  • fiction
  • 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

Cover of Address Book by Neil Bartlett

29. Address Book

By: Neil Bartlett

3.91

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Address Book is the new work of fiction by the Costa-shortlisted author of Skin Lane. Neil Bartlett… read more

Similar categories in Neil Bartlett's Address Book book and Neil Bartlett's Address Book

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • gay fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of I am not Raymond Wallace: one man's mistake is another man's making by Sam Kenyon

30. I am not Raymond Wallace: one man's mistake is another man's making

By: Sam Kenyon

4.36

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Manhattan, 1963: weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy, fresh-faced Raymond Wallace l… read more

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  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
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31. 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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  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt

26 Top fiction books like Address Book by Neil Bartlett

Transform Your Habits

A Place Called Winter

Patrick Gale

4.12

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The Folding Star

Alan Hollinghurst

4.11

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Tiepolo Blue

James Cahill

3.29

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Transform Your Habits

You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

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Anne Enright

3.55

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