The Charioteer
By: Mary Renault
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' …
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1. As Meat Loves Salt
By: Maria McCann
3.91
Format: 565 pages, Paperback
In the seventeenth century, the English Revolution is under way. The nation, seething with religiou… read more
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"Speak to me, Jacob, do not play the tyrant. Speak to me."-Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt
" Violent love eats up what it does love, and is mere appetite. "-Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt
"Will you still walk with me?’ ‘Would you walk with a bad angel?"-Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt
"I dig and plough at your command,' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit."-Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt
2. Maurice
By: E.M. Forster
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist… read more
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- classics
- gay
- lgbt
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- historical fiction
- queer
3. The Spell
By: Alan Hollinghurst
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Here are the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield, an architect in his late forties tr… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
4. The Charioteer
By: Mary Renault
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' … read more
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- historical fiction
- queer
Similar categories in Philippe Besson's In the Absence of Men book and Mary Renault's The Charioteer
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6. At Swim, Two Boys
By: Jamie O'Neill
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Praised as "a work of wild, vaulting ambition and achievement" by Entertainment Weekly, Jamie O'Nei… read more
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- gay
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- queer
7. The City and the Pillar
By: Gore Vidal
4.67
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
A literary cause celebrewhen first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal's now-classic Th… read more
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8. The Eye in the Door (Regeneration, #2)
By: Pat Barker
4.24
Format: 200 pages,
London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private… read more
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9. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more
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10. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
By: Dale A. Jenkins
4.30
Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition
WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more
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"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation. He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong. But what might ha…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
11. A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2)
By: K.J. Charles
4.25
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Major Rufus d'Aumesty has unexpectedly become the Earl of Oxney, master of a remote Norman manor on… read more
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- historical fiction
- queer
12. We Could Be So Good
By: Cat Sebastian
4.29
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Casey McQuiston meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this mid-century romdram about a scrappy… read more
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- historical fiction
- queer
13. Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue (The Cabots #3.5)
By: Cat Sebastian
4.20
Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition
North Carolina, 1953 Billy Reardon’s spent the past five years trying and failing to keep his te… read more
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14. Death in the Spires
By: K.J. Charles
4.42
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The newspapers called us the Seven Wonders. We were a group of friends, that’s all, and then Toby d… read more
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15. 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
- historical
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- queer
"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
16. In Memoriam
By: Alice Winn
4.53
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
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"It’s intimate."-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Call me Sidney,"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Where’s the rest of it?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Do you believe in magic?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
17. Small Joys
By: Elvin James Mensah
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An unexpected friendship saves a young man's life in this moving, utterly charming debut about chos… read more
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- queer
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"He was tired of there being something shameful or unsettling about the blunt expression of friendship, of the simple desire to be there for someone needing to be mocked before it could be respected, …"-Elvin James Mensah, Small Joys
18. The Dove in the Belly
By: Jim Grimsley
4.17
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
At the University of North Carolina, Ronny's made some friends, kept his secrets, survived dorm lif… read more
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"Ben was shaking now, sobbing. Ronny watched and let it happen. Ronny wrapped Ben in the blanket. "I came to every game," he said."-Jim Grimsley, The Dove in the Belly
19. The Boy in the Rain
By: Stephanie Cowell
4.07
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
It is 1903 in the English countryside when Robbie, a shy young art student, meets the twenty-nine-y… read more
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20. Alec
By: William di Canzio
4.21
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
William di Canzio's Alec, inspired by Maurice, E. M. Forster's secret novel of a happy same-sex lov… read more
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"Did they all see through him? Risley, Mrs. W? This was something new about being queer, this innuendo and subterfuge, and it sickened him."-William di Canzio, Alec
21. Disorderly Men
By: Edward Cahill
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Three gay men in pre-Stonewall NYC find their fates thrown together in the police raid of a Village… read more
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