25 best-selling lgbt books like Pennsylvania Station by Patrick E. Horrigan

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Pennsylvania Station

By: Patrick E. Horrigan

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Manhattan,1962. Frederick Bailey is a quiet, cultured, closeted architect reluctantly drawn into th…

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1. Notes of a Crocodile

By: Qiu Miaojin , Bonnie Huie

3.83

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-ag… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire."

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

"Secretly though, I did sort of enjoy being a fucked-up mess. Apart from that, I didn't have a whole lot going on."

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

"Like death, college serves as a kind of escape hatch. But while death takes you straight to the morgue, college is a single rope dangling loose from the inescapable net of society."

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

"Sweeping that other me into their arms, they led me in a dance within societal norms, along a trajectory based on a delusion. (Though I couldn't define what I was, I knew what I wasn't.)"

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

Cover of Troublemaker (Dave Brandstetter, #3) by Joseph Hansen

2. Troublemaker (Dave Brandstetter, #3)

By: Joseph Hansen

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Who killed gay bar owner and all-around nice guy Rick Wendell? Was it Larry Johns, the attractive y… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Hansen's Troublemaker (Dave Brandstetter, #3) book and Patrick E. Horrigan's Pennsylvania Station

  • m m romance
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Gravedigger (Dave Brandstetter, #6) by Joseph Hansen

3. Gravedigger (Dave Brandstetter, #6)

By: Joseph Hansen

3.79

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

Charles Westover, a disbarred lawyer, alleges that his runaway teenage daughter has been murdered a… read more

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  • m m romance
  • fiction
  • lgbt

4. The Machine Stops

By: E.M. Forster

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial… read more

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  • fiction

5. The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of (Dave Brandstetter, #4)

By: Joseph Hansen

4.75

Format: 140 pages,

In the small town of La Caleta, Dave Brandstetter investigates the murder of a very unpopular cop W… read more

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6. Queer

By: William S. Burroughs

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more

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7. Greek Lessons

By: Han Kang

3.47

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more

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  • fiction
"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

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8. Bad Girls

By: Camila Sosa Villada

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s coming-of-age tale… read more

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  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Nosotras habíamos nacido ya expulsadas del armario,esclavas de nuestra apariencia."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"Cuando una puerta se cierra, se abre una ventana, pero hay que ser muy ágil para entrar o salir por la ventana"

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"La infancia y las travestis son incompatibles. La imagen de una travesti con un niño en brazos es pecado para esa gentuza."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"A las travestis no nos nombra nadie, salvo nosotras. El resto de la gente ignora nuestros nombres, usa el miso para todas: putos."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

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9. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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10. 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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  • m m romance
  • fiction
  • 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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11. 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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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • 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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12. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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13. 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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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"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

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14. 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
  • lgbt
"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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15. 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
  • lgbt
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16. Ghost Town

By: Kevin Chen

4.15

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

Chen Tien-Hong, the only and desperately yearned for son of a traditional Taiwanese family with sev… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Gã cảm thấy lời chửi của tiếng Đức rất êm tai, cạo cổ họng, chà răng lưỡi, thô ráp như giấy nhám, mài giũa những câu chuyện xưa bẩn thỉu lồi lõm."

-Kevin Chen, Ghost Town

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17. They're Going to Love You

By: Meg Howrey

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York C… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Marriage is always kind of a net loss, for girls."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"I've had a life of interrupted things, you see. Perhaps I can't bear to have one more part of myself go unfinished."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"All this wasted time. For nothing. For ego. Because nobody could get exactly what they wanted. Because nobody knew how to stop themselves from being themselves."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"What is the thing that happens in a friendship that isn't an absence of sex? The thing added, that's maybe only between women. Not a matter of our organs or whether we were born with them or what we …"

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

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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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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • 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. Tweakerworld

By: Jason Yamas

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Meet Jason: a college educated documentary film producer, cat parent of two, and one of San Francis… read more

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  • lgbt
Cover of Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira

21. Dayspring

By: Anthony Oliveira

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once a bold retelling of bibli… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"when god died he died whimpering"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"the fox has a den and the bird has a nest only humans go homeless"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"when i sleep i remember days that never were. i dream a life i never saw and which i now see he never wanted..."

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"saint sebastian was a roman soldier. hot idiot twink go-go dancer pass around party bottom of the lord pincushioned through with arrows"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

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22. 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

Similar categories in James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild book and Patrick E. Horrigan's Pennsylvania Station

  • 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

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23. 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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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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24. Countries of Origin

By: Javier Fuentes

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning debut, Javier Fuentes chronicles a tumultuous, passionate love affair between two … read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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25. The Lost Americans

By: Christopher Bollen

3.72

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A young woman finds herself in the crosshairs of powerful and very dangerous enemies when she trave… read more

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  • fiction
  • lgbt
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26. 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
  • lgbt
"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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27. 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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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Pennsylvania Station by Patrick E. Horrigan

28. Pennsylvania Station

By: Patrick E. Horrigan

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Manhattan,1962. Frederick Bailey is a quiet, cultured, closeted architect reluctantly drawn into th… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • m m romance
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst

29. Our Evenings

By: Alan Hollinghurst

4.28

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions mode… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • m m romance
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants by Orlando Ortega-Medina

30. The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants

By: Orlando Ortega-Medina

3.87

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author and immigration attorney Orlando Ortega-Medina returns to 1990s San Francisco … read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Business Trip: The Bathhouse (Business Trip Chronicles, Gay Erotica Series Book 1) by Franco de Rocco

31. Business Trip: The Bathhouse (Business Trip Chronicles, Gay Erotica Series Book 1)

By: Franco de Rocco

4.38

Format: 29 pages, None

BUSINESS TRIP: THE BATHHOUSE #1 Professional businessman Johnathan Cummings finds himself on a … read more

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26 best-selling fiction books like Pennsylvania Station by Patrick E. Horrigan

Transform Your Habits

Notes of a Crocodile

Qiu Miaojin , Bonnie Huie

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Troublemaker (Dave Brandstetter, #3)

Joseph Hansen

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Gravedigger (Dave Brandstetter, #6)

Joseph Hansen

3.79

The Machine Stops

E.M. Forster

3.57

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21 must-read fiction books like Day by Michael Cunningham

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Leaving

Roxana Robinson

3.87

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