10 must-read nonfiction books like Gay Man Talking by Daniel Harding

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Gay Man Talking

By: Daniel Harding

3.65

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Son, Brother, Gay Best Friend. Lover, Enemy, Homo. Twink, Otter, Bear. For many gay men, the rel…

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1. Any Human Heart

By: William Boyd

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991,… read more

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2. In the Absence of Men

By: Philippe Besson , Frank Wynne

4.19

Format: 384 pages,

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  • gay
  • lgbt

3. Strangers

By: Taichi Yamada , None

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Set in the great human maelstrom of Tokyo, Strangersis a thinking man's ghost story. When Harada, a… read more

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4. Giovanni’s Room

By: James Baldwin

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Set in the contemporary Paris of American  expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds  h… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

5. Holding the Man

By: Timothy Conigrave

3.99

Format: 32 pages,

Los anos setenta seran recordados, entre otras cosas, por ser la epoca en que el "glam" irrumpe con… read more

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6. Physical

By: Andrew McMillan

4.11

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection Raw and urgent, these poems are hy… read more

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7. Idol, Burning

By: Rin Usami

3.23

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The novel that lit the Japanese publishing world on fire: From a breathtaking up-and-coming writer,… read more

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"His existence and my witnessing of it were all I asked for."

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

"Maybe that was how a home broke down over the years, as the sound of doors slamming and chairs roughly scraping the floor built up like dust, and the slow drip of gnashing teeth and resentful grumbli…"

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

"Idol groups generally assigned each member an official color, which would be used for the light sticks that fans would hold up to show your support at a performance or for other individual merch. My …"

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

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8. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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9. 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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10. A Luminous Republic

By: Andrés Barba

3.89

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

A new novel from a Spanish literary star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in … read more

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"Puede que los muertos nos traicionen al abandonarnos, pero nosotros también los traicionamos para vivir."

-Andrés Barba, A Luminous Republic

"But trees have no interest in good and evil, insects and plant roots have no interest in the reasons of man, much less his longing, and there is something comforting about that."

-Andrés Barba, A Luminous Republic

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11. Love in the Big City

By: Sang Young Park

3.65

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
"I like the universe that is you"

-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

"Let's be hamburguer patties together forever,"

-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

"Sometimes his very existence to me is the existence of love itself"

-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

"Jaehee, who had taught me that every season is its own beautiful moment -- that Jaehee didn't live here anymore."

-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

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12. 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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  • 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

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13. 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
  • 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

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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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  • gay
  • lgbt
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15. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

By: Jeremy Atherton Lin

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
"Gay is the opium of the people."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

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16. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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17. Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives

By: Walt Odets

4.44

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live au… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
"We don’t change just because we understand something, we change when we put our understanding to use."

-Walt Odets, Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives

"If our characteristic selves are not changing in response to new experience, it is because we have stopped learning and growing. We have stopped living."

-Walt Odets, Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives

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18. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

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"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

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19. 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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  • lgbt
Cover of Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict by Elizabeth Day

20. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

By: Elizabeth Day

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Concerning My Daughter

By: Hye-Jin Kim

3.71

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants fo… read more

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  • lgbt
"Ir abrindo mão das coisas de que gostamos. Essa é a definição do verbo envelhecer."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"Ela estudou tanto que, não tendo mais o que estudar, foi aprender o que não devia. Por exemplo: como negar o mundo, como ir contra o mundo."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?"

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

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22. The Brink

By: Holden Sheppard

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A group of school-leavers: free at last, ready to party, expectations high. A remote island on t… read more

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  • lgbt
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23. 100 Queer Poems

By: Mary Jean Chan

3.82

Format: 175 pages, Hardcover

Andrew McMillan and Mary Jean Chan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thril… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
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24. Lemon

By: Kwon Yeo-Sun

3.27

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 2002, when Korea is abuzz over hosting the FIFA World Cup, nineteen-year-old Kim H… read more

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25. Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts

By: Evan Ross Katz

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Explore the history and cultural impact of a groundbreaking television show adored by old and new f… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of In Tongues by Thomas Grattan

26. In Tongues

By: Thomas Grattan

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
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27. Invisible Boys

By: Holden Sheppard

4.41

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

In a small town, everyone thinks they know you: Charlie is a hardcore rocker, who's not as tough as… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
"How bad would it actually be, to end up with a woman? I’m sure I could learn to live with it. And if you close your eyes, well, you could imagine it’s a guy."

-Holden Sheppard, Invisible Boys

"When the moon rose, I’d wonder if there was a boy somewhere looking at the same moon, maybe in Europe or America or Africa. Would we meet one day and talk about how we were both looking at the moon a…"

-Holden Sheppard, Invisible Boys

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28. Straight Jacket

By: Matthew Todd

3.93

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

'This is an essential read for every gay person on the planet' - Elton John WINNER BOYZ BEST LGB… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
"Love is fundamentally pivotal to the survival of all human beings."

-Matthew Todd, Straight Jacket

"Your spirituality is simply the positive, loving side of yourself, the energy of joy and togetherness. It's the feeling you have when your dog bounds up wagging its tail, or the biggest laugh you hav…"

-Matthew Todd, Straight Jacket

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29. Four Squares

By: Bobby Finger

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of The Old Place comes a tender, funny, and fresh novel spanning the 1990s … read more

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  • lgbt
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30. To Be a Gay Man

By: Will Young

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Million-selling pop star and co-host of influential podcast ‘Homo Sapiens’, Will Young is calling f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of Gay Man Talking by Daniel Harding

31. Gay Man Talking

By: Daniel Harding

3.65

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Son, Brother, Gay Best Friend. Lover, Enemy, Homo. Twink, Otter, Bear. For many gay men, the rel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • gay
  • lgbt

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In the Absence of Men

Philippe Besson , Frank Wynne

4.19

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Giovanni’s Room

James Baldwin

4.33

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Love in the Big City

Sang Young Park

3.65

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Swimming in the Dark

Tomasz Jedrowski

4.26

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Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

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Toni Morrison

4.12

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Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

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