15 best-selling romance books like The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1) by Anthony McDonald

Cover of The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1) by Anthony McDonald

The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

By: Anthony McDonald

4.15

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

Now also available as an audio-book, read by the author. The tragic-comic story of two young men, a…

If you liked the romance plot in The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1) by Anthony McDonald , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale

1. A Place Called Winter

By: Patrick Gale

4.12

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

In the golden 1900s, Harry Cane, a shy, eligible gentleman of leisure is drawn from a life of quiet… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Gale's A Place Called Winter book and Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. The Charioteer

By: Mary Renault

3.88

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' … read more

Similar categories in Mary Renault's The Charioteer book and Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer

3. Tin Man

By: Sarah Winman

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is almost a love story. Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Winman's Tin Man book and Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

4. The Absolutist

By: John Boyne

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Absolutist is a masterful tale of passion, jealousy, heroism, and betrayal set in one of the mo… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's The Absolutist book and Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

Cover of The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1) by K.J. Charles

5. The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

4.13

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

Bridgerton meets Poldark in this sweeping LGBTQIA+ Regency romance from award-winning author KJ Cha… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1) book and Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"It didn’t have quite the melancholy feel of lost hopes and the futility of human endeavour that would have suited his mood, but it was still moderately picturesque."

-K.J. Charles, The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)

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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

Similar categories in Tom Crewe's The New Life book and Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical 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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7. The Darkness Outside Us

By: Eliot Schrefer

4.32

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Two boys, alone in space. After the first settler on Titan trips her distress signal, neither re… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Schrefer's The Darkness Outside Us book and Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"Wow, that was salty. I kind of like it,"

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

"Today he smells like motor oil. It's sort of exotic-erotic."

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

"Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power."

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

"I can manually debug a few hundred thousand lines. It won't be fun, but I ... who am I kidding, it will be fun."

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

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8. Swimming in the Dark

By: Tomasz Jedrowski

4.26

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story o… read more

Similar categories in Tomasz Jedrowski's Swimming in the Dark book and Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"Little sparks cause fires too."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

"I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

"Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

"See it as a game– everyone knows the rules. And if you can’t change them, there’s no point in worrying."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

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9. Young Mungo

By: Douglas Stuart

4.38

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a … read more

Similar categories in Douglas Stuart's Young Mungo book and Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"It was a nothing that felt like an everything."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

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10. 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 Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • 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

Cover of The Scottish Boy by Alex de Campi

11. The Scottish Boy

By: Alex de Campi

4.16

Format: 485 pages, Hardcover

1333. Edward III is at war with Scotland. Nineteen-year-old Sir Harry de Lyon yearns to prove himse… read more

Similar categories in Alex de Campi's The Scottish Boy book and Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"Iain,’ he says softly. ‘If you’re in heaven, I cannot let you go. I keep seeing you, trying to put you back in the world by sheer force of desire. I saw you in the Black Knight, and I feel like every…"

-Alex de Campi, The Scottish Boy

Cover of The Gardener by Charles Reeza

12. The Gardener

By: Charles Reeza

4.35

Format: 562 pages, Paperback

Adam is an introvert. He lives alone and he's doing everything he can to keep it that way. "I prefe… read more

Similar categories in Charles Reeza's The Gardener book and Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of The Boy in the Rain by Stephanie Cowell

13. The Boy in the Rain

By: Stephanie Cowell

4.07

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1903 in the English countryside when Robbie, a shy young art student, meets the twenty-nine-y… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Cowell's The Boy in the Rain book and Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
Cover of Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style by Paul   Rudnick

14. 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 Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 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 Let Me Catch You by Zane Menzy

15. Let Me Catch You

By: Zane Menzy

4.19

Format: 326 pages, ebook

Discover "the secret" in this haunting gay romance. Fresh from university, Stephen Davis has ret… read more

Similar categories in Zane Menzy's Let Me Catch You book and Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of Alec by William di Canzio

16. 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 Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical 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

Cover of The Sins of Jack Branson (Modern Myth Trilogy #1) by David Schulze

17. The Sins of Jack Branson (Modern Myth Trilogy #1)

By: David Schulze

4.14

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

England, 1881. Being gay is both a sin and a crime. Parents disowning their children is considered … read more

Similar categories in David Schulze's The Sins of Jack Branson (Modern Myth Trilogy #1) book and Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical fiction
  • queer
Cover of The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1) by Anthony McDonald

18. The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

By: Anthony McDonald

4.15

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

Now also available as an audio-book, read by the author. The tragic-comic story of two young men, a… read more

Similar categories in Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1) book and Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • gay fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
Cover of Lust in London: Gay group MMMM first time (Men of the World Book 1) by Jason  Chance

19. Lust in London: Gay group MMMM first time (Men of the World Book 1)

By: Jason Chance

4.18

Format: 49 pages, Kindle Edition

Professor Chase Hoffman and his husband Ted felt stuck in a rut, both in their work and sex lives. … read more

Similar categories in Jason Chance's Lust in London: Gay group MMMM first time (Men of the World Book 1) book and Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

Cover of The Waiting (Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch, #25; Harry Bosch Universe, #39) by Michael    Connelly

20. The Waiting (Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch, #25; Harry Bosch Universe, #39)

By: Michael Connelly

4.47

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a terrifying serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, with the… read more

Similar categories in Michael Connelly's The Waiting (Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch, #25; Harry Bosch Universe, #39) book and Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

  • fiction
Cover of Code Name: Crimson (Of Shadows & Secrets, #1) by Casey Morales

21. Code Name: Crimson (Of Shadows & Secrets, #1)

By: Casey Morales

4.32

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

Will Shaw and his friends are typical college students, enjoying dances and parties without much ca… read more

Similar categories in Casey Morales's Code Name: Crimson (Of Shadows & Secrets, #1) book and Anthony McDonald's The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical fiction
  • queer

14 best-selling fiction books like The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1) by Anthony McDonald

Transform Your Habits

A Place Called Winter

Patrick Gale

4.12

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The Charioteer

Mary Renault

3.88

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The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)

K.J. Charles

4.13

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The New Life

Tom Crewe

3.77

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19 Best romance books like The Sins of Jack Branson (Modern Myth Trilogy #1) by David Schulze

Transform Your Habits

The Anonymous Hookup

Jax Calder

4.40

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The New Life

Tom Crewe

3.77

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The Art of Husbandry (Mackenzie Country, #1)

Jay Hogan

4.40

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Bloom

N.R. Walker

4.06

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