12 must-read queer books like Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life by James Lovejoy

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Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

By: James Lovejoy

4.43

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

Joseph Chapman is a young denizen of late 18th century London, who must contend not only with being…

If you liked the queer plot in Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life by James Lovejoy , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Hardest Thing (Dan Stagg Mystery #1) by James Lear

1. The Hardest Thing (Dan Stagg Mystery #1)

By: James Lear

3.50

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Killing is easy. Love is ... The Hardest Thing Once a major in the US Marines, Dan Stagg fell foul … read more

Similar categories in James Lear's The Hardest Thing (Dan Stagg Mystery #1) book and James Lovejoy's Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt

2. Leonardo da Vinci

By: Walter Isaacson

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A #1 New York Timesbestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creat… read more

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3. Mahu Vice (Mahu, #4)

By: Neil S. Plakcy

4.25

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

Months have passed since Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa'aka walked away from the blaze at … read more

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4. Mahu Fire: A Hawai'ian Mystery (Mahu #3)

By: Neil S. Plakcy

3.83

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Evil moves to paradise, as openly gay police detective Kimo Kanapa'aka battles an extreme religious… read more

Similar categories in Neil S. Plakcy's Mahu Fire: A Hawai'ian Mystery (Mahu #3) book and James Lovejoy's Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

5. The Mystery of Nevermore (Snow & Winter, #1)

By: C.S. Poe

3.93

Format: 265 pages, ebook

It's Christmas, and all antique dealer Sebastian Snow wants is for his business to make money and t… read more

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6. 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

Similar categories in Matt Cain's The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle book and James Lovejoy's Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"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

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7. 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 James Lovejoy's Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • 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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8. You Should Be So Lucky

By: Cat Sebastian

4.39

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance about grief and found family, b… read more

Similar categories in Cat Sebastian's You Should Be So Lucky book and James Lovejoy's Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"Sometimes you want to look at a guy and say: Well, he’s fucked, but he’s trying."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"But he also wants that feeling he had earlier, that feeling of being seen for who he is, and of being liked anyway."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"This urge to be kind to a relative stranger is unfamiliar and disconcerting, as if he's discovered in himself a hunger for raw meat or an enthusiasm for vaudeville."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"The actual problem is incredibly boring, and Mark hates admitting it even to himself. Unless a couple has the good fortune to get hit by the same freight train, their story ends in exactly one way. H…"

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

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9. Boy Like Me

By: Simon James Green

4.55

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1994 and thanks to Section 28, there can be no mention of gay relationships in schools. When a… read more

Similar categories in Simon James Green's Boy Like Me book and James Lovejoy's Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
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10. 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 James Lovejoy's Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • 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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11. Band Sinister

By: K.J. Charles

4.24

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Sir Philip Rookwood is the disgrace of the county. He’s a rake and an atheist, and the rumours abou… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's Band Sinister book and James Lovejoy's Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"Christ,"

-K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

"Guy stared at the words. “Broken leg,"

-K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

"How's the debauching?" "I think it's coming along quite well."

-K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

"The more love you give, the more you are capable of giving. It's only when you shut off the source that it dries up."

-K.J. Charles, Band Sinister

Cover of The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon

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 James Lovejoy's Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
Cover of A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1) by Freya Marske

13. 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

Similar categories in Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1) book and James Lovejoy's Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
" 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)

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14. The Way Life Should Be

By: William Dameron

3.67

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

Two fathers embarking on the second half of their lives together. Two families in the midst of tran… read more

Similar categories in William Dameron's The Way Life Should Be book and James Lovejoy's Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of The Doctor (Magic & Steam #3) by C.S. Poe

15. The Doctor (Magic & Steam #3)

By: C.S. Poe

4.39

Format: 255 pages, ebook

1882—Gillian Hamilton, magic caster and Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Magic and Steam, h… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Poe's The Doctor (Magic & Steam #3) book and James Lovejoy's Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

  • romance
  • historical
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
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16. Potential Energy

By: Kim Fielding

3.97

Format: 392 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When interstellar smuggler Haz Taylor loses his ship, his money, and his tattered reputation, drink… read more

Similar categories in Kim Fielding's Potential Energy book and James Lovejoy's Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

  • romance
  • queer
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
Cover of The Gangster (Magic & Steam, #2) by C.S. Poe

17. The Gangster (Magic & Steam, #2)

By: C.S. Poe

4.36

Format: None pages, ebook

1881—Special Agent Gillian Hamilton, magic caster for the Federal Bureau of Magic and Steam, has re… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Poe's The Gangster (Magic & Steam, #2) book and James Lovejoy's Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

  • romance
  • historical
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
Cover of A Tip for the Hangman: A Novel by Allison Epstein

18. A Tip for the Hangman: A Novel

By: Allison Epstein

3.84

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An Elizabethan espionage thriller in which playwright Christopher Marlowe spies on Mary, Queen of S… read more

Similar categories in Allison Epstein's A Tip for the Hangman: A Novel book and James Lovejoy's Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Unknown (Rath & Rune #3) by Jordan L. Hawk

19. Unknown (Rath & Rune #3)

By: Jordan L. Hawk

4.16

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

Librarian Sebastian Rath and his lover Vesper Rune continue their search for the evil Books of the … read more

Similar categories in Jordan L. Hawk's Unknown (Rath & Rune #3) book and James Lovejoy's Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

  • romance
  • historical
  • m m romance
  • queer
Cover of Code Name: Crimson (Of Shadows & Secrets, #1) by Casey Morales

20. 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 James Lovejoy's Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • queer
Cover of Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life by James  Lovejoy

21. Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

By: James Lovejoy

4.43

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

Joseph Chapman is a young denizen of late 18th century London, who must contend not only with being… read more

Similar categories in James Lovejoy's Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life book and James Lovejoy's Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

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

11 must-read fiction books like Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life by James Lovejoy

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

Matt Cain

4.06

Transform Your Habits

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

K.J. Charles

4.13

Transform Your Habits

You Should Be So Lucky

Cat Sebastian

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Boy Like Me

Simon James Green

4.55

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14 best-selling fiction books like Band Sinister by K.J. Charles

Transform Your Habits

The Soldier's Scoundrel (The Turners, #1)

Cat Sebastian

4.01

Transform Your Habits

It Takes Two to Tumble (Seducing the Sedgwicks, #1)

Cat Sebastian

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots (The Cabots, #3)

Cat Sebastian

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Tommy Cabot Was Here (The Cabots, #1)

Cat Sebastian

3.97

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