Doubting Thomas
By: Matthew Clark Davison
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Thomas McGurrin is a fourth-grade teacher and openly gay man at a private primary school serving Po…
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1. We Could Be So Good
By: Cat Sebastian
4.29
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Casey McQuiston meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this mid-century romdram about a scrappy… read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
- gay
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2. The Reformatory
By: Tananarive Due
4.47
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sen… read more
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- fiction
3. Flamer
By: Mike Curato
4.32
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author and artist Mike Curato draws on his own experiences in Flamer, his debut graph… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
4. Summer Sons
By: Lee Mandelo
3.80
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddi… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"It's a choice I made, getting in this thing with you, whatever it is. But don't mistake me, I'm not interested in filling in for a ghost."-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons
"His face twisted through several contradictory emotions and he said, "For fuck's sake Andrew. Is there anything in this scenario that feels heterosexual or well-adjusted to you?"-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons
"I’m sorry he died before you figured it out. For what it’s worth, I think you might’ve eventually, without me there to displace your bullshit onto. He was head over heels for you, and everyone knew b…"-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons
5. 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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- lgbt
- gay
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"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
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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- fiction
- lgbt
- gay
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"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
7. Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
By: Elon Green
3.84
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay communit… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
8. Don't Cry for Me
By: Daniel Black
4.35
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise a… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"I want readers to reconsider the capacity of our fathers’ hearts. Many of them were handed so little, yet we expected so much."-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me
"Hurt is worse than anger, you know. Anger dwells in the head, then fades. Hurt lingers in the soul. It rearranges your feelings without your permission. It blinds you."-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me
"Reconsider the capacity of our fathers’ hearts. Many of them were handed so little, yet we expected so much. They gave more than they had, but less than what we needed."-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me
"Pride can really kill a man. Actually, it makes him kill himself. He justifies his errors and creates his own righteousness in his mind. Grandma used to say, "There is a way that seemeth right unto a…"-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me
9. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
10. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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- fiction
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
11. 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
- lgbt
- gay
- queer
12. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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- fiction
"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
13. Afterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
3.95
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
14. 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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- lgbt
- gay
- queer
"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
15. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
By: Alexander Chee
4.39
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more
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- gay
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"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
16. I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir
By: Harvey Fierstein
4.37
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Awa… read more
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- lgbt
- gay
- queer
17. Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)
By: Pooja Lakshmin
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From board-certified psychiatrist and women's mental health specialist Pooja Lakshmin, MD, comes a … read more
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18. 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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- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
19. Unrivaled (Hockey Ever After, #3)
By: Ashlyn Kane
4.06
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
People say there’s a fine line between love and hate. If you ask Grady Armstrong, the line’s as obv… read more
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- fiction
- queer
"Tell you what,"-Ashlyn Kane, Unrivaled (Hockey Ever After, #3)
"I should be the lobster,"-Ashlyn Kane, Unrivaled (Hockey Ever After, #3)
"This is what you got when you lost the bet?"-Ashlyn Kane, Unrivaled (Hockey Ever After, #3)
"Chocolate might not fill the void inside him, but he’d never know until he tried."-Ashlyn Kane, Unrivaled (Hockey Ever After, #3)
20. 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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- lgbt
- gay
- queer
21. Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)
By: Lev A.C. Rosen
3.87
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the … read more
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- fiction
- queer
"Even when your dream is taken from you, you can have a great new life."-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)
"People are always trying to claim you, without ever listening to who you are. They want you to be something else, to be the role they have for you in the family. But really, we're all better off just…"-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)
22. Winging It (Hockey Ever After, #1)
By: Ashlyn Kane
3.82
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Hockey is Gabe Martin's life. Dante Baltierra just wants to have some fun on his way to the Hockey … read more
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- gay
- queer
23. How We Fight For Our Lives
By: Saeed Jones
4.28
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir … read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"Some songs take women places men cannot follow."-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives
"Everyone has a lie we’re quietly waiting to believe."-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives
"I will say for myself: America, I did the best I could with what I was given."-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives
"The only thing worse than being a disaster is being a disaster with a witness."-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives
24. Like a Love Story
By: Abdi Nazemian
4.26
Format: 432 pages, None
It's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy w… read more
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- lgbt
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"I just have too much to scream about to leave just yet."-Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story
"In the language my mother speaks, I literally don't exist."-Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story
"There should be a limit on how long any human being has to wear braces. - Reza"-Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story
"I want her to hold me, ask me about him, something. Instead she says, 'I can't hear about this. Please. I can't."-Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story
25. Bury Your Gays
By: Chuck Tingle
4.29
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
26. Tell Me How to Be
By: Neel Patel
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Lost in the jungle of Los Angeles, Akash Amin is filled with shame. Shame for liking men. Shame for… read more
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- fiction
- queer
"Lies are like children, the second you conceive them you must protect them at all costs."-Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be
"You came into my life and rimmed it with gold. Everything was more bearable with you by my side."-Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be
27. The Town of Babylon
By: Alejandro Varela
3.96
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
In this contemporary debut novel—an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity —Andrés,… read more
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- lgbt
- gay
- queer
28. 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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- lgbt
- gay
- queer
29. Husbandry: Poems
By: Matthew Dickman
4.44
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, moving volume of poems on the anxieties and love of single fatherhood and domestic lif… read more
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30. Doubting Thomas
By: Matthew Clark Davison
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Thomas McGurrin is a fourth-grade teacher and openly gay man at a private primary school serving Po… read more
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- lgbt
- gay
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31. 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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- lgbt
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