10 Best historical fiction books like School Days by Jonathan Galassi

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School Days

By: Jonathan Galassi

2.89

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

From the renowned president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a coming-of-age tale of privilege and hid…

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1. Fellow Travelers

By: Thomas Mallon

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the highly acclaimed author of Bandboxand Dewey Defeats Truman-a searing new historical novel … read more

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  • fiction
  • gay
  • historical fiction
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2. The Diana Chronicles

By: Tina Brown

4.00

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she "the people's princess," who e… read more

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  • audiobook
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3. The Borrower

By: Rebecca Makkai

4.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with readin… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Light Before Day

By: Christopher Rice

4.06

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Adam Murphy wants to be a serious journalist. Unfortunately, he spends his days writing copy about … read more

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  • fiction
  • gay
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5. You Only Call When You're in Trouble

By: Stephen McCauley

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Is it ever okay to stop caring for others and start living for yourself? After a lifetime of tak… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. 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
  • fiction
  • gay
  • historical fiction
"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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7. Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers

By: Mary Rodgers

4.24

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The memoirs of Mary Rodgers Guettel--writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried eve… read more

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8. The Motion of the Body Through Space

By: Lionel Shriver

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In Lionel Shriver’s entertaining send-up of today’s cult of exercise—which not only encourages bett… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She herself was only sixty, though hers was the first generation to append "only" to such a sobering milestone."

-Lionel Shriver, The Motion of the Body Through Space

"I did not love running. Here's a pointer for you: no one does. They pretend to, but they are lying. The only good part is having run. In the moment, it's dull and hard as in effortful but not as in d…"

-Lionel Shriver, The Motion of the Body Through Space

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9. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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10. Less Is Lost (Arthur Less, #2)

By: Andrew Sean Greer

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the follow-up to the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less, the awkward and lovable Arthu… read more

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  • fiction
  • gay
  • audiobook
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11. Confidence

By: Rafael Frumkin

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Two lifelong friends, occasional lovers, and constant conmen find themselves on top of the world af… read more

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  • fiction
  • gay
  • audiobook
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12. 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
  • fiction
  • gay
  • historical fiction
"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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13. 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
  • audiobook
"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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14. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. 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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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. 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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  • fiction
  • gay
  • audiobook
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18. 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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  • fiction
  • gay
  • audiobook
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19. Let's Not Do That Again

By: Grant Ginder

3.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The People We Hate at the Wedding comes a poignant, funny, and slyly beguiling n… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"What the fuck am I supposed to do with this thing?" "You're supposed to eat it," Cate says. "With what? A forklift?"

-Grant Ginder, Let's Not Do That Again

"Inevitably there would be a complaint about dark faces, moving around neighborhoods where they didn't belong, and then another about gay teachers, making queers of their students. A world turned on i…"

-Grant Ginder, Let's Not Do That Again

"It's got to be disappointing, being called all those things." Nancy thinks: How long has she been doing this? Nearly twenty years--she can pin it to the month. The answer to that question can never u…"

-Grant Ginder, Let's Not Do That Again

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20. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Humble Lover

By: Edmund White

2.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award-honored author Edmund White, a wildly hilarious and irreverent novel about… read more

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  • fiction
  • gay
Cover of Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style by Paul   Rudnick

22. 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
  • fiction
  • gay
  • historical fiction
"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

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23. The Lookback Window

By: Kyle Dillon Hertz

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A fearless debut novel of resilience, transcendence, and the elusive promise of justice. Growing… read more

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  • fiction
  • gay
  • audiobook
"The great shame of your life is that you weren't raised Catholic," James said to me. "You've got suffering, but you don't have the aesthetic."

-Kyle Dillon Hertz, The Lookback Window

"Some people talk about their PTSD as if it's a badge of honor, and I roll my fucking eyes. I'm not trying to be the PDST-esy of them all. I ignored it for a really long time. I overdosed at seventeen…"

-Kyle Dillon Hertz, The Lookback Window

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24. 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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  • fiction
  • gay
  • historical fiction
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25. Last Resort

By: Andrew Lipstein

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In his blazing debut novel Last Resort, Andrew Lipstein blurs the lines of fact and fiction with a … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

26. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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27. 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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  • fiction
  • gay
  • historical fiction

28. Meatheads Say the Realest Things

By: Colin Fleming

4.80

Format: None pages, ebook

Meet Chad, a full-fledged Boston meathead-and gym-buff social misfit-whose shaky grasp of reality i… read more

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29. School Days

By: Jonathan Galassi

2.89

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

From the renowned president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a coming-of-age tale of privilege and hid… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • gay
  • historical fiction
Cover of Glitter Every Day: 365 Quotes from Women I Love by Andy Cohen

30. Glitter Every Day: 365 Quotes from Women I Love

By: Andy Cohen

3.62

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

From Andy Cohen, the New York Times bestselling author and host of Watch What Happens Live comes an… read more

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31. Hombrecito

By: Santiago Jose Sanchez

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant… read more

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  • fiction
  • gay

27 Best fiction books like School Days by Jonathan Galassi

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Fellow Travelers

Thomas Mallon

4.16

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The Borrower

Rebecca Makkai

4.35

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Light Before Day

Christopher Rice

4.06

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You Only Call When You're in Trouble

Stephen McCauley

3.45

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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

Shubnum Khan

3.87

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Percival Everett

4.54

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Lisa Ko

3.22

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Tommy Orange

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