The Harness Room
By: L.P. Hartley
3.50
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
Fergus Macready, nervous, hypersensitive and fond of study, is, at the age of seventeen, the antith…
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1. Crash
By: J.G. Ballard
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- 20th century
- fiction
"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"-J.G. Ballard, Crash
2. Confessions of a Mask
By: Yukio Mishima
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
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
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
4. Closer
By: Dennis Cooper
3.72
Format: 395 pages, Paperback
Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind wit… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
5. O amor dos homens avulsos
By: Victor Heringer
4.00
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
No calor de um suburbio carioca, um garoto cresce em meio a partidas de futebol, conversas sobre te… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
6. Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall
By: Neil Bartlett
3.67
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
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- queer
Similar categories in Philippe Besson's In the Absence of Men book and L.P. Hartley's The Harness Room
- gay
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- queer
8. The Birds
By: Tarjei Vesaas , Michael Barnes , None
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
With spare simplicity, this story tells the tale of Mattis, a mentally disabled man cared for by hi… read more
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9. Jackdaw
By: K.J. Charles
4.01
Format: 217 pages, ebook
If you stop running, you fall. Jonah Pastern is a magician, a liar, a windwalker, a professional th… read more
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10. In Youth Is Pleasure
By: Denton Welch
4.23
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Against the backdrop of an English country hotel in a languid pre-war summer, Denton Welch's alter … read more
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11. Lord Dismiss Us
By: Michael Campbell
4.09
Format: None pages,
Lord Dismiss Us is set in an English boys' public school in the 1960s. The novel deals with the lov… read more
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12. 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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- adult
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
13. Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble (Winner Bakes All, #2)
By: Alexis Hall
3.49
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material comes a sweet and scrumptious romantic comedy abo… read more
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- adult
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"The naked man, who would probably have found the prick debate hard enough to navigate even if his own hadn’t been hanging there like a chorizo in a delicatessen window, had come to peer over Paris’s …"-Alexis Hall, Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble (Winner Bakes All, #2)
14. 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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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"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
15. 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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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- 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
16. In Memoriam
By: Alice Winn
4.53
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- queer
"It’s intimate."-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Call me Sidney,"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Where’s the rest of it?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Do you believe in magic?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
17. Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out
By: Ryan Love
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When 79-year-old Arthur Edwards gathers his family together to share some important news, no one is… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
18. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
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- historical fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
19. Lie With Me
By: Philippe Besson
4.26
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage … read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"You get used to everything, even the defection of those you thought you were bound to forever."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
20. The Gentleman From Peru
By: André Aciman
3.56
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
It’s been 10 years since a group of college friends made a vow: that the first to get rich would re… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
21. The In-Between
By: Christos Tsiolkas
3.70
Format: 400 pages, ebook
The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap … read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"There was respite in history. The beligerence and intolerance of the contemporary age was of no consequence to the past. And there was no shouting."-Christos Tsiolkas, The In-Between
22. The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek Autobiographies Series)
By: Una McCormack
4.08
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
The captain who went further than any had before tells her lifestory for the first time in her own … read more
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- fiction
23. Yes, Daddy
By: Jonathan Parks-Ramage
3.59
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is lured by an… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
24. Bluebeard's Castle
By: Anna Biller
3.22
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
A subversive take on the famous French fairy tale from the acclaimed director of The Love Witch, an… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
25. Hey, Zoey
By: Sarah Crossan
3.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Dolores O'Shea’s marriage collapses when she discovers her husband’s AI sex doll in the garage. Whe… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"But I wished I wasn’t strong. Because when you are, no one thinks to take care of you."-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey
"We were too alike. We loved one another in the wrong way, but that doesn't mean it wasn't love."-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey
"How could we possibly tell another person everything about ourselves? It would take a lifetime. It would be incredibly boring."-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey
"As a young teacher I would raise my voice to get a group’s attention. Now I know better. To make yourself heard, you get very quiet. It instils fear."-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey
26. The World and All That It Holds
By: Aleksandar Hemon
3.85
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The World and All That It Holds--in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory--… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- queer
27. When London Snow Falls (When Snow Falls, #2)
By: Hayden Stone
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Charlie Renfrew is too busy and too broke for a love life. There’s no room in a schedule crammed wi… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
28. Cleanness
By: Garth Greenwell
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"Anything I am you have use for is yours."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
29. Sixteen Souls
By: Rosie Talbot
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Sixteen-year-old Charlie Frith has problems. His crush is dating someone else, his sisters have gli… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
30. The Boy in the Rain
By: Stephanie Cowell
4.07
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
It is 1903 in the English countryside when Robbie, a shy young art student, meets the twenty-nine-y… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- queer
31. The Harness Room
By: L.P. Hartley
3.50
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
Fergus Macready, nervous, hypersensitive and fond of study, is, at the age of seventeen, the antith… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- gay
- lgbt
- british literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 20th century
- adult
- queer
