21 Top lgbt books like One Last Song: you're never too old to change your tune by Nathan Evans

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One Last Song: you're never too old to change your tune

By: Nathan Evans

3.90

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

A gentleman called Joan lands up in a care home, like a colourful, combustible cocktail… ticking. A…

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1. A Very Easy Death

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

4.04

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly… read more

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"«A ella le gustaba la vida mundana y lo seguía alegremente»."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

"«No se muere de haber nacido, ni de haber vivido, ni de vejez. Se muere de "algo"»."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

"When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

"Sorumlusu olmadığım halde, benim olan, hiçbir zaman da bağışlatamayacağım bir günahın, umutsuzluk içinde, cezasını çekiyordum."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

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2. Bear

By: Marian Engel

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

A librarian is called to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of a secretive Colonel wh… read more

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3. Mamut

By: Eva Baltasar

3.58

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
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4. Juno Loves Legs

By: Karl Geary

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Juno loves Legs. She's loved him since their first encounter at school in Dublin, the time she foug… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
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5. 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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  • lgbt
"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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6. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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  • contemporary
Cover of Ce que je sais de toi by Éric Chacour

7. Ce que je sais de toi

By: Éric Chacour

4.43

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Dans le Caire des années 1980, un jeune médecin suit un destin tracé pour lui. Entre son dispensair… read more

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  • lgbt
"Le jour, ses mains en prolongement des tiennes sur le corps des patients. La nuit, son corps en prolongement du tien sous tes mains impatientes."

-Éric Chacour, Ce que je sais de toi

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8. The Only Light Left Burning (All That's Left in the World, #2)

By: Erik J. Brown

4.24

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

THEY FOUND EACH OTHER. NOW THEY MUST RESCUE WHAT THEY LEFT BEHIND. The highly-anticipated sequel to… read more

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  • lgbt
"He sets the rifle down and we close the gap in between us in half a second. His arms around me, mine around him. Holding tight, as though we're trying to fuse ourselves together. It's familiar and lo…"

-Erik J. Brown, The Only Light Left Burning (All That's Left in the World, #2)

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9. 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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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
"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

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10. One Love

By: Matt Cain

3.76

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

Two men. Twenty years of friendship. One love. 2002. Danny arrives at Manchester University dete… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
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11. Becoming Ted

By: Matt Cain

3.90

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A charmingly joyful, surprising story about love, acceptance, and self-expression from the acclaime… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
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12. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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  • contemporary
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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13. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

By: Judi Dench

4.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more

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"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

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14. 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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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
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15. 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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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
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16. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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  • contemporary
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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17. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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18. 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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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
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19. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

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  • contemporary
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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20. Bored Gay Werewolf

By: Tony Santorella

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
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21. Phoenix Extravagant

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Dragons. Art. Revolution. Gyen Jebi isn’t a fighter or a subversive. They just want to paint. … read more

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  • lgbt
"I’ll go up first,"

-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

"Phoenix Extravagant for destructive power, as befits an engine of war."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

"But so many people aren't ready for this, Jebi. Artists. Charm-sellers. Grocers. Tailors. People who just want to get by, and who won't be given a choice when the guns begin to speak again."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

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22. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

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  • lgbt
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23. Game On: Can you love the player, if you hate the game?

By: Matt Cain

3.80

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle and Becoming Ted, abrand new enemies-to-love… read more

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  • lgbt
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24. Neon Roses

By: Rachel Dawson

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Eluned Hughes is stuck. It's 1984 in a valley in south Wales: the miners' strike is ravaging her co… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
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25. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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26. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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27. 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

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
"Worryin only gives the small things big shadows"

-Nicolas DiDomizio, The Gay Best Friend

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28. Comment sortir du monde

By: Marouane Bakhti

4.04

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

Comment sortir du monde nous rappelle les textes emblématiques d'Annie Ernaux, d'Edouard Louis ou p… read more

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29. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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  • contemporary
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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30. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
Cover of One Last Song: you're never too old to change your tune by Nathan Evans

31. One Last Song: you're never too old to change your tune

By: Nathan Evans

3.90

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

A gentleman called Joan lands up in a care home, like a colourful, combustible cocktail… ticking. A… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt

20 Best contemporary books like One Last Song: you're never too old to change your tune by Nathan Evans

Transform Your Habits

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Eva Baltasar

3.58

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Juno Loves Legs

Karl Geary

4.16

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Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

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Danny Ramadan

4.06

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12 must-read fiction books like Ce que je sais de toi by Éric Chacour

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Jean-Baptiste Andrea

4.28

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Éric Chacour

4.43

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Mélasse de fantaisie

Francis Ouellette

4.21

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Emmanuelle Pierrot

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