Furnace Creek
By: Joseph Allen Boone
3.63
Format: 485 pages, Hardcover
Part coming-of-age story and part novel of erotic discovery, part queer take on Southern Gothic and…
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1. When We Were Orphans
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The maze of human memory--the ways in which we accommodate and alter it, deceive and deliver oursel… read more
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"أعرف أنه احيانًا يكون صعبًا وكأن العالم كله قد انهار من حولك"-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
"I was upset. But I'm not any more. You have to look forward in life."-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
"إن المجرم الحديث قد أصبح أكثر مهارة ، أكثر طموحا ، وأكثر جرأة ، والعلم قد وضع نظاما كاملا من الأدوات المعقدة تحت تصرفه"-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
"It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things . When you've lost your mother and your father, you can't care so much about things , can you?"-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
2. Christopher and His Kind
By: Christopher Isherwood
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generation Originally published… read more
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- gay
3. A Single Man
By: Christopher Isherwood
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving p… read more
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4. Hard Times
By: Charles Dickens , Gage McWeeny
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, edited by Jeff Nunokawa, in… read more
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- fiction
5. The Sparsholt Affair
By: Alan Hollinghurst
3.98
Format: 480 pages,
In 1940, Evert Dax and David Sparsholt, two young men from very different backgrounds, meet at Oxfo… read more
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- fiction
- gay
6. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
By: Olivia Laing
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir and biography on the subject of loneliness told throu… read more
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8. City of Night
By: John Rechy
3.85
Format: 128 pages,
When John Rechy's explosive first novel, City of Night, was first published in 1963, it became a na… read more
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9. Days Without End
By: Sebastian Barry
2.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, "a master storyteller" (Wall Street Jo… read more
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10. Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave… read more
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"Small world, huh?"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"We’re gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists."-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"The thing that bugs me... is that you never really know what women are like... not for a long time, anyway. They only show you what they want you to see." Michael nodded. "So you fantasize over all t…"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. …"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
11. The Line of Beauty
By: Alan Hollinghurst
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home… read more
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12. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
13. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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- fiction
14. 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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- gay
"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
15. 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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"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
16. The Foghorn Echoes
By: Danny Ramadan
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout tha… read more
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- gay
"The story within me aches like an untreated wound. It's unheard and I need to speak it. It roams my insides like a caged animal gasping for air. It trembles."-Danny Ramadan, The Foghorn Echoes
17. 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
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- gay
"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
18. Absolution
By: Alice McDermott
3.81
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more
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19. The Shards
By: Bret Easton Ellis
4.00
Format: 595 pages, Hardcover
A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more
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"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
20. Biography of X
By: Catherine Lacey
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more
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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
21. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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- fiction
22. 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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"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
23. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- gay
24. Evenings and Weekends
By: Oisín McKenna
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more
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25. 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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"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
26. 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
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"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
27. Manhunt
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.54
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive… read more
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"It was actually good that the world had ended, because now no one could make her play Settlers of Catan."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"Later, she thought, in a moment of terrible clarity, each of us will tell herself the other was the one who pulled the trigger."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"But I think mostly I just wanted her to … make me real, the way you’re real when the beautiful people look at you, and talk to you, and let you fuck them."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"He pressed a kiss to the crown of her head and she let him hold her close among the falling leaves and relished the illusion that, if only for a little while, she was safe."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
28. 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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- gay
29. Lark Ascending
By: Silas House
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A timely, powerful story of survival set in the not-too-distant future, reminding us to always hold… read more
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- fiction
"The world became smaller, yet louder."-Silas House, Lark Ascending
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."-Silas House, Lark Ascending
"There was some comfort in knowing that, although the world was being torn in two, there were still remarkable things that went on being, that refused to lose their shine. Some days it was only the wo…"-Silas House, Lark Ascending
30. Thylacines
By: Deborah Sheldon
3.70
Format: 140 pages, Kindle Edition
The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, was hunted to extinction some eighty years ago. Now, Professor R… read more
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31. Furnace Creek
By: Joseph Allen Boone
3.63
Format: 485 pages, Hardcover
Part coming-of-age story and part novel of erotic discovery, part queer take on Southern Gothic and… read more
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