The Family of Max Desir
By: Robert Ferro
3.43
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
From the back cover copy: Max Desir loved his Italian-American family--even after his iron-wille…
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1. Moonglow
By: Michael Chabon
3.80
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon… read more
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- fiction
"...When were they happy?" "In the cracks?" I said. "In the cracks."-Michael Chabon, Moonglow
"He was tired of shouldering the weight of other people's bad decisions along with his own."-Michael Chabon, Moonglow
"She had been an exhausting woman to love. But he had loved her no less passionately for the hard work."-Michael Chabon, Moonglow
"I agreed to keep the cards a secret and asked my grandmother if she believed in magic. She said she did not but that, surprisingly, magic worked even if you did not believe in it."-Michael Chabon, Moonglow
2. The Master
By: Colm Tóibín
3.84
Format: 339 pages, Paperback
“Colm Tóibín’s beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James’s inner life” (The New York Times) cap… read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
"It is terrible to be an unprotected being."-Colm Tóibín, The Master
"For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an outsider, and too alert to the ironies, the niceties, the manners, and indeed, the morals to be able…"-Colm Tóibín, The Master
"His consolation was that at least he had known her as the world had not, and the pain of living without her was no more than a penalty he paid for the privilege of having been young with her. What on…"-Colm Tóibín, The Master
"He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes the dullness came to the fore with a strange and insistent ache whic…"-Colm Tóibín, The Master
3. Equal Affections
By: David Leavitt
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Equal Affections tells the story of the funny, loving, and tragic Cooper family. Louise, the indomi… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- gay fiction
- fiction
- queer
4. The Front Runner (Harlan's Story, #1)
By: Patricia Nell Warren
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
First published in 1974, The Front Runner raced to international acclaim - the first novel about ga… read more
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- m m romance
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
5. Mysterious Skin
By: Scott Heim
3.87
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endur… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
6. Skinned Alive
By: Edmund White
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
The eight stories in this erotic and heartbreaking collection are barometers of difference. They me… read more
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- gay fiction
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
7. Our Man in Havana
By: Graham Greene
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income. read more
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- fiction
8. The Loser
By: Thomas Bernhard , Jack Dawson
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovatio… read more
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- fiction
9. 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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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
10. Father of Frankenstein
By: Christopher Bram
4.12
Format: 428 pages, Paperback
James Whale, the elegant director of such classic horror films as"Frankenstein" and "The Bride of F… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
11. The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories
By: David Leavitt , Mark Mitchell
3.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A collection of fiction by and about gay men features original stories from Larry Kramer, Edmund Wh… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
12. 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
13. The Immoralist
By: André Gide , David Watson , Alan Sheridan
3.55
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
In The Immoralist, André Gide presents the confessional account of a man seeking the truth of his o… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"Existing is occupation enough."-André Gide, The Immoralist
"إنني اترك الماضي خلفي بعيدا كأنه عصفور يطير ويترك ظله."-André Gide, The Immoralist
"Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness."-André Gide, The Immoralist
"Aynı zamanda hem içten olmak, hem de öyle görünmek olası değil."-André Gide, The Immoralist
14. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
This startling novel describes the adolescence of a ferociously bright and rebellious orphan adopte… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
15. Falling Angels
By: Tracy Chevalier
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In her New York Timesbestselling follow-up, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a … read more
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16. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
By: D.H. Lawrence
3.50
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Lawrence's frank portrayal of an extramarital affair and the explicit sexual explorations of its ce… read more
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- fiction
"We fucked a flame into being."-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
"It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said."-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
"A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it."-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
17. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
By: Tony Kushner
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more
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18. Another Country
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more
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19. 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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20. A Short Stay in Hell
By: Steven L. Peck
4.22
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more
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- fiction
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
21. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
22. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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- fiction
23. Happy-Go-Lucky
By: David Sedaris
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” ( Los Angeles Times ) returns with his first new collect… read more
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- lgbt
24. Termination Shock
By: Neal Stephenson
3.83
Format: 708 pages, Hardcover
A visionary technothriller about climate change. Neal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new nove… read more
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- fiction
25. 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
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
26. 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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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"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
27. Filthy Animals
By: Brandon Taylor
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfyin… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
28. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
By: Michael Schulman
4.09
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more
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29. 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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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"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
30. A Short History of Queer Women
By: Kirsty Loehr
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Queer women have always existed – let’s put them back in the history books No, they weren’t ‘just … read more
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- gay
- lgbt
31. The Family of Max Desir
By: Robert Ferro
3.43
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
From the back cover copy: Max Desir loved his Italian-American family--even after his iron-wille… read more
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