11 must-read queer books like The Wild Man by Patricia Nell Warren

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The Wild Man

By: Patricia Nell Warren

4.10

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Antonio, a handsome and disillusioned bullfighter, secretly longs to release the wild bulls back to…

If you liked the queer plot in The Wild Man by Patricia Nell Warren , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of My Brother and His Brother by Håkan Lindquist, Hakan Lindquist

1. My Brother and His Brother

By: Håkan Lindquist , Hakan Lindquist

3.78

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

"My Brother and His Brother" is a novel about two brothers. The story is told by one of them, Jonas… read more

Similar categories in Håkan Lindquist's My Brother and His Brother book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • gay fiction
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Uncle Sean (The Continuing Journals of Will Barnett, #1) by Ronald L. Donaghe

2. Uncle Sean (The Continuing Journals of Will Barnett, #1)

By: Ronald L. Donaghe

3.77

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

When fourteen-year-old Will Barnett meets his Uncle Sean, whom he has not seen since he was six yea… read more

Similar categories in Ronald L. Donaghe's Uncle Sean (The Continuing Journals of Will Barnett, #1) book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • m m romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
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3. 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

Similar categories in Thomas Mallon's Fellow Travelers book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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4. Trailer Trash

By: Marie Sexton

3.76

Format: 168 pages, ebook

It's 1986, and what should have been the greatest summer of Nate Bradford's life goes sour when his… read more

Similar categories in Marie Sexton's Trailer Trash book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
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5. The Name of the Rose

By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver

4.14

Format: 552 pages, Paperback

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more

Similar categories in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • classics
  • fiction
"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

6. El viaje de Marcos

By: Óscar Hernández Campano

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Marcos y Alex se conocieron veinticinco anos atras, en el transcurso de un verano de descubrimiento… read more

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7. Strangers

By: Taichi Yamada , None

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Set in the great human maelstrom of Tokyo, Strangersis a thinking man's ghost story. When Harada, a… read more

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8. The Weight of It All

By: N.R. Walker

4.31

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

After being dumped by his long-term boyfriend for being overweight, Henry Beckett decides to make s… read more

Similar categories in N.R. Walker's The Weight of It All book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction

9. Boy Meets Boy

By: David Levithan

4.03

Format: None pages,

This is the story of Paul, a sophomore at a high school like no other: The cheerleaders ride Harley… read more

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10. World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)

By: Ken Follett

3.82

Format: 287 pages,

The #1 New York Timesbestseller from the author of The Pillars of the Earthand A Column of Fire(com… read more

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11. My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 (My Brother's Husband Omnibus, #1)

By: Gengoroh Tagame , Anne Ishii

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

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12. Something Like Summer (Something Like, #1)

By: Jay Bell

3.33

Format: None pages, ebook

Love, like everything in the universe, cannot be destroyed. But over time it can change. The hot Te… read more

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13. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

By: Caitlin Doughty

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with ten… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Doughty's From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

"My next drone folk album will be called "The Cremation Reforms of Octavius B. Frothingham"."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

"What dignity translates to, more often than not, is silence, a forced poise, a rigid formality."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

"All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

"In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

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14. Trilogía

By: Jon Fosse

3.90

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Trilogía es un libro diferente. Es hipnótico. Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar y, para el lect… read more

Similar categories in Jon Fosse's Trilogía book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • romance
  • fiction
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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

Similar categories in Tom Crewe's The New Life book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • 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

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16. Swimming in the Dark

By: Tomasz Jedrowski

4.26

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story o… read more

Similar categories in Tomasz Jedrowski's Swimming in the Dark book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"Little sparks cause fires too."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

"I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

"Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

"See it as a game– everyone knows the rules. And if you can’t change them, there’s no point in worrying."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

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17. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies

By: Caitlin Doughty

4.13

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortic… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Doughty's Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

"That's why all the questions in this book come from 100 percent ethically sourced, free-range, organic children."

-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies

"It’s normal to be curious about death. But as people grow up, they internalize this idea that wondering about death is “morbid"

-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies

"Sometimes death can be violent, sudden, and unbearably sad. But it’s also reality, and reality doesn’t change just because you don’t like it."

-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies

"I'm bringing body back. Returning corpses, but they're not intact. Kids, this is a Justin Timberlake reference. You're fine not knowing who that is."

-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies

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18. 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

Similar categories in Christos Tsiolkas's The In-Between book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • romance
  • 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

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19. Blaine for the Win

By: Robbie Couch

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

After being dumped so his boyfriend can pursue more “serious” guys, a teen boy decides to prove he … read more

Similar categories in Robbie Couch's Blaine for the Win book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of The One That Got Away by Nicky James

20. The One That Got Away

By: Nicky James

4.25

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Someone is following me. I’m not imagining it. I’m not crazy. Charlie Falkingham is convinced so… read more

Similar categories in Nicky James's The One That Got Away book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
Cover of El chico de la última fila (Cabana, #2) by Susanna Herrero

21. El chico de la última fila (Cabana, #2)

By: Susanna Herrero

4.41

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

¿Quién es Dylan Carbonell? ¿Ese chico indescifrable, de sonrisas invisibles y miradas impactantes… read more

Similar categories in Susanna Herrero's El chico de la última fila (Cabana, #2) book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • boys love
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22. Alec

By: William di Canzio

4.21

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

William di Canzio's Alec, inspired by Maurice, E. M. Forster's secret novel of a happy same-sex lov… read more

Similar categories in William di Canzio's Alec book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"Did they all see through him? Risley, Mrs. W? This was something new about being queer, this innuendo and subterfuge, and it sickened him."

-William di Canzio, Alec

Cover of Rocky Mountain Refuge by Nicky James

23. Rocky Mountain Refuge

By: Nicky James

4.04

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

Can the wild man in the mountains be tamed? Huxley is in hiding, but from who? Why? His worst enem… read more

Similar categories in Nicky James's Rocky Mountain Refuge book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • romance
  • queer
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
Cover of Lo que cuentan de nosotros by Íñigo Aguas

24. Lo que cuentan de nosotros

By: Íñigo Aguas

3.54

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Enzo está hecho un lío. Acaba de cortar con su novio, pero pronto empieza a echarlo de menos y deci… read more

Similar categories in Íñigo Aguas's Lo que cuentan de nosotros book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • boys love
  • queer
Cover of The Wild Man by Patricia Nell Warren

25. The Wild Man

By: Patricia Nell Warren

4.10

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Antonio, a handsome and disillusioned bullfighter, secretly longs to release the wild bulls back to… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • romance
  • classics
  • m m romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • gay fiction
  • fiction
  • boys love
  • queer
Cover of Lo que nunca fuimos (HARLEQUIN LGTBI) by Mike Lightwood

26. Lo que nunca fuimos (HARLEQUIN LGTBI)

By: Mike Lightwood

3.77

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

¿Te atreverías a conocer de nuevo a tu primer amor? Como muchos millennials que están ya rozando… read more

Similar categories in Mike Lightwood's Lo que nunca fuimos (HARLEQUIN LGTBI) book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • lgbt
Cover of Boys on a Train by Amy Coomer

27. Boys on a Train

By: Amy Coomer

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

2022 FINALIST: Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize A journey through adolescence, one ride at a … read more

Similar categories in Amy Coomer's Boys on a Train book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • lgbt
  • gay
  • queer
Cover of Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

28. Veronika Decides to Die

By: Paulo Coelho

3.73

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

In his latest international bestseller, the celebrated author of The Alchemist addresses the fundam… read more

Similar categories in Paulo Coelho's Veronika Decides to Die book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

  • romance
  • classics
  • fiction
"Am I cured?"

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

"Collective madness is called sanity .."

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

"Nothing in this world happens by chance."

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

"La conciencia de la muerte nos anima a vivir más"

-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

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29. For Love Of Self (Blessed Be Book 2)

By: Robin Reardon

4.42

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

A beautiful young man, dancing naked at the edge of a pond, is not what Spencer Hill expected to se… read more

Similar categories in Robin Reardon's For Love Of Self (Blessed Be Book 2) book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

Cover of Lance (The Continuing Journals of Will Barnett, #2) by Ronald L. Donaghe

30. Lance (The Continuing Journals of Will Barnett, #2)

By: Ronald L. Donaghe

4.25

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Will Barnett writes: "So, as I told Uncle Sean, Lance just needs somebody to love him. And that som… read more

Similar categories in Ronald L. Donaghe's Lance (The Continuing Journals of Will Barnett, #2) book and Patricia Nell Warren's The Wild Man

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31. Todo Sobre Él/ Everything About Him

By: Ronald L. Donaghe

4.56

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Cuando Will y Lance deciden separarse durante dos años mientras Lance estudia arte en una escuela d… read more

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