Better Angel
By: Forman Brown
3.96
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published in 1933, gave readers one of the first positive images of gay life and became an undergr…
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1. Son (The Giver, #4)
By: Lois Lowry
3.78
Format: 479 pages, Hardcover
They called her Water Claire. When she washed up on their shore, no one knew that she came from a s… read more
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- classics
- fiction
2. Messenger (The Giver, #3)
By: Lois Lowry
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Messengeris the masterful third novel in the Giver Quartet, which began with the dystopian bestsell… read more
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- classics
- fiction
3. A Boy's Own Story
By: Edmund White
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A B… read more
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- classics
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- novels
- queer
4. Other Voices, Other Rooms
By: Truman Capote
3.77
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a litera… read more
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- classics
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"Only."-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
"Are the dead as lonesome as the living?"-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
"Все возможно, небо везде одно, только то, что под ним, разное."-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
"And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came."-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
5. 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
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6. Twelve Years a Slave
By: Solomon Northup
3.58
Format: None pages, ebook
A film tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany the major new film starrin… read more
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7. Geography Club (Russel Middlebrook, #1)
By: Brent Hartinger
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
I knew that any wrong action, however slight, could reveal my true identity... Russel is still goin… read more
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8. The Souls of Black Folk
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more
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9. The Guest Cat
By: Takashi Hiraide , Eric Selland
2.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A bestseller in France and winner of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the ac… read more
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10. 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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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"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
11. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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- novels
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
12. Herc
By: Phoenicia Rogerson
3.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures…everyone’s favouri… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
13. A Guest in the House
By: Emily Carroll
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
14. A palavra que resta
By: Stênio Gardel
4.05
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Uma carta guardada por mais de cinquenta anos — e jamais lida. É essa a relíquia que Raimundo leva … read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- queer
15. Bellies
By: Nicola Dinan
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more
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- romance
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
16. 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
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- romance
- lgbt
- fiction
- novels
- queer
17. The Fifth Wound
By: Aurora Mattia
4.41
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman's interdimensional search for beauty and embodi… read more
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- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- novels
- queer
18. Icarus
By: K. Ancrum
4.08
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this… read more
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- romance
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
19. 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
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- 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
20. Wild Geese
By: Soula Emmanuel
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Debut novelist Soula Emmanuel tells the story of Phoebe Forde, an Irish trans woman living in Scand… read more
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- queer lit
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"I try to hurry the encounter along in the manner of a French oral exam, stammering through the procedurals of a regulation rendezvous in the hope of disembarking promptly at au revoir."-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese
"Perhaps I am doomed to have sillier and sillier identity crises until I am dead: the one label that accepts no backchat. Paralysis by analysis begetting paralysis the old-fashioned way."-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese
"I am thirty years old and living in postscript already, not on the edge but over it, a happenstance life on a tranquil margin. It is a gatecrasher’s quiet. I cannot explain what a thrill it is just t…"-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese
"Dolly is a ten-year-old bichon frise. Her fur smells like bran flakes and her breath smells like rotting flesh. Most of the time she’s a languid, trip-over dog, a little cat of a dog, though in her u…"-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese
21. Better Angel
By: Forman Brown
3.96
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published in 1933, gave readers one of the first positive images of gay life and became an undergr… read more
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- romance
- classics
- gay
- lgbt
- gay fiction
- queer lit
- fiction
- novels
- queer
