10 must-read contemporary books like The Lodger, That Summer by Levi Huxton

Cover of The Lodger, That Summer by Levi Huxton

The Lodger, That Summer

By: Levi Huxton

3.94

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s a hot summer Down Under and everyone’s got sex on the mind. Eighteen year-old James has had…

If you liked the contemporary plot in The Lodger, That Summer by Levi Huxton , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Spell

By: Alan Hollinghurst

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Here are the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield, an architect in his late forties tr… read more

Similar categories in Alan Hollinghurst's The Spell book and Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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2. 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 Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt

3. Holding the Man

By: Timothy Conigrave

3.99

Format: 32 pages,

Los anos setenta seran recordados, entre otras cosas, por ser la epoca en que el "glam" irrumpe con… read more

Similar categories in Timothy Conigrave's Holding the Man book and Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

4. The Brothers Bishop

By: Bart Yates

4.40

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Tommy and Nathan Bishop are as different as two brothers can be. Carefree and careless, Tommy is th… read more

Similar categories in Bart Yates's The Brothers Bishop book and Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

5. The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World

By: Alan Downs

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The gay male world today is characterized by seductive beauty, artful creativity, flamboyant sexual… read more

Similar categories in Alan Downs's The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World book and Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

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6. Stars in Your Eyes

By: Kacen Callender

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The National Book Award-winning author of  Felix Ever After  delivers a beautifully tender story of… read more

Similar categories in Kacen Callender's Stars in Your Eyes book and Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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7. 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 Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

  • 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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8. Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out

By: Ryan Love

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When 79-year-old Arthur Edwards gathers his family together to share some important news, no one is… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Love's Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out book and Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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9. Lie With Me

By: Philippe Besson

4.26

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage … read more

Similar categories in Philippe Besson's Lie With Me book and Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"You get used to everything, even the defection of those you thought you were bound to forever."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

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10. Prophet

By: Sin Blaché

3.68

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new … read more

Similar categories in Sin Blaché's Prophet book and Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

  • romance
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"He looks at Rao. Turns in his seat and looks. Sunil Rao, bane of Adam's career, world saver, royal pain in the ass, and genuinely the love of Adam's life."

-Sin Blaché, Prophet

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11. 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 Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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12. The World and All That It Holds

By: Aleksandar Hemon

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The World and All That It Holds--in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory--… read more

Similar categories in Aleksandar Hemon's The World and All That It Holds book and Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

  • romance
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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13. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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14. When You Call My Name

By: Tucker Shaw

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Tucker Shaw’s When You Call My Name is a heartrending novel about two gay teens coming of age in Ne… read more

Similar categories in Tucker Shaw's When You Call My Name book and Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Just so you know,"

-Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name

"I stop somewhere waiting for you."

-Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name

"He didn't know yet that he would remember this name forever."

-Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name

"Tell me why you don’t sleep. I didn’t say goodbye. I knew what was happening, but I didn’t say goodbye. I didn’t even try to."

-Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name

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15. Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style

By: Paul Rudnick

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed writer Paul Rudnick, a riotously funny, perceptive, and life-affirming novel fol… read more

Similar categories in Paul Rudnick's Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style book and Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"If all the world's a stage, gay people are often expected to understudy themselves, reinterpreting the truth of their performances, depending on who's out front, and who's paying their salary."

-Paul Rudnick, Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style

Cover of Boys, Beasts & Men by Sam J. Miller

16. Boys, Beasts & Men

By: Sam J. Miller

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In Nebula Award-winning author Sam J. Miller’s devastating debut short-fiction collection, featurin… read more

Similar categories in Sam J. Miller's Boys, Beasts & Men book and Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Stupid of me to think that just because her empathy extended to monsters like Kong, it would reach all the way to monsters like me."

-Sam J. Miller, Boys, Beasts & Men

"We walk. Two bodies, two wild separate beings. Sex tingles all through me: the hunger for it, for the joy that is more than just the pleasure of it, or the pride of being desired Of connecting to som…"

-Sam J. Miller, Boys, Beasts & Men

Cover of Alec by William di Canzio

17. 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 Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

  • 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

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18. Invisible Boys

By: Holden Sheppard

4.41

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

In a small town, everyone thinks they know you: Charlie is a hardcore rocker, who's not as tough as… read more

Similar categories in Holden Sheppard's Invisible Boys book and Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"How bad would it actually be, to end up with a woman? I’m sure I could learn to live with it. And if you close your eyes, well, you could imagine it’s a guy."

-Holden Sheppard, Invisible Boys

"When the moon rose, I’d wonder if there was a boy somewhere looking at the same moon, maybe in Europe or America or Africa. Would we meet one day and talk about how we were both looking at the moon a…"

-Holden Sheppard, Invisible Boys

Cover of The Gay Best Friend by Nicolas DiDomizio

19. The Gay Best Friend

By: Nicolas DiDomizio

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

an alternate cover edition can be found here He's always been the token gay best friend. Now, st… read more

Similar categories in Nicolas DiDomizio's The Gay Best Friend book and Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Worryin only gives the small things big shadows"

-Nicolas DiDomizio, The Gay Best Friend

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20. A Man and His Pride

By: Luke Rutledge

4.02

Format: None pages, Audiobook

An uplifting and deeply moving gay novel by an exciting new Australian voice in commercial fiction,… read more

Similar categories in Luke Rutledge's A Man and His Pride book and Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of The Lodger, That Summer by Levi Huxton

21. The Lodger, That Summer

By: Levi Huxton

3.94

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s a hot summer Down Under and everyone’s got sex on the mind. Eighteen year-old James has had… read more

Similar categories in Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer book and Levi Huxton's The Lodger, That Summer

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • erotica
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

17 best-selling fiction books like The Lodger, That Summer by Levi Huxton

Transform Your Habits

The Spell

Alan Hollinghurst

3.16

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Fellow Travelers

Thomas Mallon

4.16

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Stars in Your Eyes

Kacen Callender

3.80

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The New Life

Tom Crewe

3.77

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18 Best fiction books like Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor

Transform Your Habits

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

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A Safe Girl to Love

Casey Plett

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Stone Butch Blues

Leslie Feinberg

4.43

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Paradise Rot

Jenny Hval

3.55

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