13 Top lgbt books like Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children by Felice Picano

Cover of Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children by Felice Picano

Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children

By: Felice Picano

4.05

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

The Secret Lives of Children, Picano's memoir of suburban 1950s childhood, forever altered how we …

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Cover of Flaggermusmannen (Harry Hole, #1) by Jo Nesbø, Don Bartlett

1. Flaggermusmannen (Harry Hole, #1)

By: Jo Nesbø , Don Bartlett

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

Politimannen Harry Hole er i Sydney for a bista australsk politi i etterforskningen av drapet pa en… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, Michael Cunningham, Michael Henry Heim

2. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

Similar categories in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice book and Felice Picano's Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children

  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

3. The Confusions of Young Törless

By: J.M. Coetzee , Shaun Whiteside , Robert Musil

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational un… read more

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4. The Back Passage (Mitch Mitchell Mystery, #1)

By: James Lear

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

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5. The Little Dog Laughed (Dave Brandstetter, #8)

By: Joseph Hansen

4.75

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Celebrated foreign correspondent Adam Streeter is found shot dead in his elegant LA condo. The cops… read more

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6. Mary Ann in Autumn (Tales of the City, #8)

By: Armistead Maupin

4.18

Format: 578 pages,

Twenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pu… read more

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Cover of Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1) by K.J. Charles

7. Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

4.04

Format: 265 pages, ebook

Will Darling came back from the Great War with a few scars, a lot of medals, and no idea what to do… read more

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  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Libra smiled. It gave Will the impression he'd sent off a postal order for a booklet on Smiling for Beginners."

-K.J. Charles, Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

"Britain was full of men like him, trying to find something to do in a country that had managed perfectly well without them."

-K.J. Charles, Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

"He'd been apprenticed to a joiner before the war, but that felt like decades ago: all he was good at now was killing people, which was discouraged."

-K.J. Charles, Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

Cover of The Secret (Jack Reacher #28) by Lee Child

8. The Secret (Jack Reacher #28)

By: Lee Child

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look li… read more

Similar categories in Lee Child's The Secret (Jack Reacher #28) book and Felice Picano's Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children

  • fiction
Cover of Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out by Ryan   Love

9. Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out

By: Ryan Love

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When 79-year-old Arthur Edwards gathers his family together to share some important news, no one is… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Love's Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out book and Felice Picano's Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children

  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski

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

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  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
"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

Cover of Young Mungo by Douglas   Stuart

11. 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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  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
"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

Cover of Lie With Me by Philippe Besson

12. 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

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  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
"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 I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir by Harvey Fierstein

13. I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir

By: Harvey Fierstein

4.37

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Awa… read more

Similar categories in Harvey Fierstein's I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir book and Felice Picano's Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children

  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of Mother's Boy by Patrick Gale

14. Mother's Boy

By: Patrick Gale

4.16

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

One of the joys of Gale's writing is how even the smallest of characters can appear fully formed, d… read more

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  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2) by André Aciman

15. Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)

By: André Aciman

3.26

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Elio believes he has left behind his first love - but as an affair with an older man intensifies, h… read more

Similar categories in André Aciman's Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2) book and Felice Picano's Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children

  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
"It belongs to the past,"

-André Aciman, Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)

"Oh, but we do age. We don’t grow up."

-André Aciman, Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)

"If I could, I would kiss your voice."

-André Aciman, Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)

"It's not death I refuse, but extinction."

-André Aciman, Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)

Cover of A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne

16. A Ladder to the Sky

By: John Boyne

4.21

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesn’t have is talent—b… read more

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  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I had told the truth, or a version of it, anyway."

-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky

"I think Maurice is whatever he needs to be, whenever he needs to be it. He's an operator, that's for sure."

-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky

"Would there be no end to publishing, he wondered? Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years, and allowed readers to catch up."

-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky

"I've known a lot of whores in my life," added Gore, [...]. "Both men and women. And in general, I've always found them to be good company, with a highly evolved sense of honor. A whore will never che…"

-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky

Cover of The Virgin Homicides: A Mahu Investigation (Mahu Investigations Book 13) by Neil S. Plakcy

17. The Virgin Homicides: A Mahu Investigation (Mahu Investigations Book 13)

By: Neil S. Plakcy

4.58

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

Two Dead Women. Will Kimo's Niece be Next? The latest Honolulu homicides in the long-running Mahu … read more

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Cover of The Wild Man by Patricia Nell Warren

18. The Wild Man

By: Patricia Nell Warren

4.10

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Antonio, a handsome and disillusioned bullfighter, secretly longs to release the wild bulls back to… read more

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  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children by Felice Picano

19. Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children

By: Felice Picano

4.05

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

The Secret Lives of Children, Picano's memoir of suburban 1950s childhood, forever altered how we … read more

Similar categories in Felice Picano's Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children book and Felice Picano's Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children

  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of For the Love of Luke by David C.  Dawson

20. For the Love of Luke

By: David C. Dawson

3.83

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

A handsome naked man. Unconscious on a bathroom floor. He’s lost his memory, and someone’s out t… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt

13 Top fiction books like Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children by Felice Picano

Transform Your Habits

Flaggermusmannen (Harry Hole, #1)

Jo Nesbø , Don Bartlett

4.11

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Death in Venice

Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

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Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

K.J. Charles

4.04

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The Secret (Jack Reacher #28)

Lee Child

4.09

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21 Best fiction books like The Secret (Jack Reacher #28) by Lee Child

Transform Your Habits

Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)

C.J. Box

4.36

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Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

Michael Connelly

4.56

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The Exchange

John Grisham

3.69

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Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15)

John Sandford

4.36

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