The Great Urge Downward: A Novel
By: Gordon Merrick
3.95
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
Besides family fortune and good looks, Lance Vanderholden had it all-a Navy career, a society marri…
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1. Three Nick Nowak Mysteries (Boystown #1)
By: Marshall Thornton
3.86
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
Finalist for the Lambda Award in Gay Mystery, Boystown: Three Nick Nowak Mysteries takes place in C… read more
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2. Brokeback Mountain
By: Annie Proulx
4.00
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary lite… read more
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"I wish I knew how to quit you."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,"-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
3. Valor on the Move
By: Keira Andrews
4.02
Format: None pages, ebook
He'd give his life to protect the president's son. But he never expected to risk his heart. Growing… read more
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4. Lawn Boy
By: Jonathan Evison
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
"Jonathan Evison's voice is pure magic. In Lawn Boy, at once a vibrant coming-of-age novel and a sh… read more
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5. Leave Myself Behind
By: Bart Yates
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Noah York is a closeted gay teenager with a foul mouth, a critical disposition, and plenty of mater… read more
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6. Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
By: Mary Renault
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from G… read more
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7. 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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8. Spring's Awakening
By: Eric Bentley , Frank Wedekind
4.03
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Spring's Awakening is a tragi-comedy of teenage sex. Its fourteen-year-old heroine, Wendla, is kill… read more
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9. Cyrano de Bergerac
By: Edmond Rostand , Lowell Bair , Eteel Lawson
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever capt… read more
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10. The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers, #2)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.05
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthe… read more
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11. The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
By: Matt Cain
4.06
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Albert Entwistle is a private man with a quiet, simple life. He lives alone with his cat Gracie. An… read more
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"I feel like a carefree, beautiful butterfly!"-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
"In some ways I’m like a picture that hasn’t been colored in yet."-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
"Come on, we only get one chance at life. This isn't a dress rehearsal."-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
"I love you a little bit more than yesterday and a little bit less than tomorrow."-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
12. Glitterland (Spires, #1)
By: Alexis Hall
4.02
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In the past, the universe is a glitterball I hold in the palm of my hand. In the past, I am bri… read more
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"...I would have told a thousand lies to have him, and a thousand more to keep him."-Alexis Hall, Glitterland (Spires, #1)
"I’m not here because I’m broken. I’m here because I’m whole. Difficult, potentially undeserving, but whole. And I don’t need you, I just want you. I want you"-Alexis Hall, Glitterland (Spires, #1)
"I half imagined I could taste the silver on his nails, as sharp as glitter in my mouth. Maybe when he touched me, colour would spill from his hands like heat."-Alexis Hall, Glitterland (Spires, #1)
"I felt him move and turned my head to deflect his kiss so that it landed on the side of my jaw instead of my mouth. It shimmered there briefly like some iridescent, impossible butterfly."-Alexis Hall, Glitterland (Spires, #1)
13. What If It's Us (What If It's Us, #1)
By: Becky Albertalli
3.82
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
Arthur is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it’s that the u… read more
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"God, Arthur."-Becky Albertalli, What If It's Us (What If It's Us, #1)
"No spoilers!"-Becky Albertalli, What If It's Us (What If It's Us, #1)
"Never say never,"-Becky Albertalli, What If It's Us (What If It's Us, #1)
"Sometimes New York feels like a full body corset."-Becky Albertalli, What If It's Us (What If It's Us, #1)
14. Chef's Kiss
By: Jarrett Melendez
3.96
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
English graduate Ben Cook is on the job hunt looking for something... anything... related to his pa… read more
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15. Here's to Us (What If It's Us, #2)
By: Becky Albertalli
4.03
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Ben has spent his first year of college working on his fantasy manuscript with his writing partner … read more
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"You could launch us to opposite ends of this solar system, and we'd find our way back to each other."-Becky Albertalli, Here's to Us (What If It's Us, #2)
"Ben shoots me a quick sideways smile, but it’s cool, because who even needs lungs? Why are we all so obsessed with breathing?"-Becky Albertalli, Here's to Us (What If It's Us, #2)
"Then we just kind of stare at each other for a minute. Or ten minutes. Or ten hours. I don’t know how to measure time when Ben’s looking at me."-Becky Albertalli, Here's to Us (What If It's Us, #2)
"People don’t warn you that heartbreak is a chronic condition. Maybe it quiets down a little over time, or you can muffle it with distance, but the ache never quite dials down to zero. It’s there lurk…"-Becky Albertalli, Here's to Us (What If It's Us, #2)
16. And They Lived . . .
By: Steven Salvatore
3.97
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Chase Arthur is a budding animator and hopeless romantic obsessed with Disney films and finding his… read more
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17. A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
By: Freya Marske
3.96
Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition
Set in an alternative Edwardian England, this is a comedy of manners, manor houses, and hedge mazes… read more
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" Off administering a country seat, indeed. Robin had nothing against the country, but could never shake the impression that it would rather everyone buggered off to town and let it administer itself …"-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
" Off administering a country seat,> indeed. Robin had nothing at all against the country, but could never shake the impression that it would rather everyone buggered off to town an administer itself …"-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
"You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips. You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I'd like to introduce my fist to whoever taught you t…"-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
" You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips. You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I'd like to introduce my fists to whoever taught you…"-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
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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19. Husband Material (London Calling, #2)
By: Alexis Hall
3.56
Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition
Wanted: One (very real) husband Nowhere near perfect but desperately trying his best In BOYF… read more
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20. 10 Things That Never Happened (Material World, #1)
By: Alexis Hall
3.91
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Fake amnesia. Real feelings? Real problems. Sam Becker loves―or, okay, likes―his job. Sure, man… read more
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"I don't think he'll be able to tell. Memory is peculiar. Worst comes to absolute worst, I'll just arrange to get whacked on the head again and say that's brought everything back." "That's not a thing…"-Alexis Hall, 10 Things That Never Happened (Material World, #1)
21. The Long Run
By: James Acker
4.31
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Two track and field athletes find an unexpected but powerful love in this unapologetically blunt an… read more
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22. This Way Out
By: Tufayel Ahmed
4.03
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
It’s time everyone knew the truth, and what better way to announce you’re getting married (and gay)… read more
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"Love is a gift. Mariam's words stick with me. People are more concerned by what two men or two women do in bed than about love. Love is companionship, feeling content and safe in the arms of another …"-Tufayel Ahmed, This Way Out
23. Boy Underground
By: Catherine Ryan Hyde
4.47
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
During WWII, a teenage boy finds his voice, the courage of his convictions, and friends for life in… read more
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24. Father Complex (Hazard and Somerset: Arrows in the Hand, #4)
By: Gregory Ashe
4.49
Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition
Having a father can be hard. Being a good one might be even harder. The call-out for the double … read more
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25. Domestic Animals (Hazard and Somerset: Arrows in the Hand, #3)
By: Gregory Ashe
4.52
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes, the most dangerous animals are the ones you let inside. When a man hires Emery Hazard… read more
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26. The Great Urge Downward: A Novel
By: Gordon Merrick
3.95
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
Besides family fortune and good looks, Lance Vanderholden had it all-a Navy career, a society marri… read more
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