21 best-selling lgbt books like The World of Normal Boys by K.M. Soehnlein

The World of Normal Boys

By: K.M. Soehnlein

4.23

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

In his stunning debut novel, "The World Of Normal Boys, " K.M. Soehnlein captures the spirit of a g…

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Cover of So Hard to Say by Alex   Sanchez

1. So Hard to Say

By: Alex Sanchez

3.84

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

When Frederick shows up at school, Xio is thrilled. The new boy is shy, cute, and definitely good b… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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2. Crash

By: J.G. Ballard

3.59

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more

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  • fiction
"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

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3. A Secret Edge

By: Robin Reardon

3.95

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

I love the long distance run, when you feel like you're about to die...and then you reach this plac… read more

Similar categories in Robin Reardon's A Secret Edge book and K.M. Soehnlein's The World of Normal Boys

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • gay fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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4. 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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  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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5. Beijing Comrades

By: Beijing Tongzhi , Bei Tong , Scott E. Myers , None , Petrus Liu

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Handong, a ruthless and wealthy businessman, is introduced to Lan Yu, a naive, working-class a… read more

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  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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6. The Boys on the Rock

By: John Fox

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

Written with uncanny precision and wild humor, this is the story of Billy Connors, high school stud… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • gay fiction
  • fiction
  • queer
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7. A Place Called Winter

By: Patrick Gale

4.12

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

In the golden 1900s, Harry Cane, a shy, eligible gentleman of leisure is drawn from a life of quiet… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Gale's A Place Called Winter book and K.M. Soehnlein's The World of Normal Boys

  • fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
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8. The Lost Language of Cranes

By: David Leavitt

3.72

Format: 78 pages,

David Leavitt's extraordinary first novel, now reissued in paperback, is a seminal work about famil… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
  • gay fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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9. The Swimming-Pool Library

By: Alan Hollinghurst

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an en… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
  • gay fiction
  • fiction
  • queer
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10. The Front Runner (Harlan's Story, #1)

By: Patricia Nell Warren

4.09

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

First published in 1974, The Front Runner raced to international acclaim - the first novel about ga… read more

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  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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11. Fellow Travelers

By: Thomas Mallon

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the highly acclaimed author of Bandboxand Dewey Defeats Truman-a searing new historical novel … read more

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  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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12. What They Always Tell Us

By: Martin Wilson

4.40

Format: 172 pages,

JAMES AND ALEX have barely anything in common anymore--least of all their experiences in high schoo… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

13. At the Edge of the Universe

By: Shaun David Hutchinson

2.62

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Tommy and Ozzie have been best friends since second grade, and boyfriends since eighth. They spent … read more

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  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

14. The World of Normal Boys

By: K.M. Soehnlein

4.23

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

In his stunning debut novel, "The World Of Normal Boys, " K.M. Soehnlein captures the spirit of a g… read more

Similar categories in K.M. Soehnlein's The World of Normal Boys book and K.M. Soehnlein's The World of Normal Boys

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • gay fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The Married Man by Edmund White

15. The Married Man

By: Edmund White

4.11

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In Edmund White's most moving novel yet, an American living in Paris finds his life transformed by … read more

Similar categories in Edmund White's The Married Man book and K.M. Soehnlein's The World of Normal Boys

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

16. How I Learned to Snap: A Small Town Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age Story

By: Kirk Read

4.12

Format: 428 pages,

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  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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17. Pryor Rendering: A Novel

By: None , Gary Reed

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A dazzling tale of one young man's emotional and sexual awakening in a small Oklahoma town--"colorf… read more

Similar categories in None's Pryor Rendering: A Novel book and K.M. Soehnlein's The World of Normal Boys

  • gay fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer

18. The Coming Storm

By: Paul Russell

4.21

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of a traditional boys' school in upstate New York, The Coming Stormis a de… read more

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19. A Density of Souls

By: James Daniels , Christopher Rice

3.78

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

Four childhood friends in present-day New Orleans are torn apart by envy, passion, and a secret mur… read more

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20. 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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21. Dancer from the Dance

By: Andrew Holleran

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic r… read more

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22. The Rules of Attraction

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set at a small affluent liberal-arts college in New England eighties, The Rules of Attractionis a s… read more

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23. The Line of Beauty

By: Alan Hollinghurst

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home… read more

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24. Dream Boy

By: Jim Grimsley

4.19

Format: 192 pages,

ALA Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual Book Award. In his electrifying novel, adolescent gay love, violence, and … read more

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25. The Absolutist

By: John Boyne

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Absolutist is a masterful tale of passion, jealousy, heroism, and betrayal set in one of the mo… read more

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26. The Year of Ice

By: Brian Malloy

3.80

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

It is 1978 in the Twin Cities, and Kevin Doyle, a high school senior, is a marginal student in love… read more

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27. Family Meal

By: Bryan Washington

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more

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  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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28. An Honest Man

By: Ben Fergusson

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In West Berlin in 1989, eighteen-year-old Ralf has just left school and is living a final golden su… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
  • gay fiction
  • fiction
  • queer
"Like all of my friends, I’d seen the ubiquitous soft-core pornography on late-night German television that our English relatives found scandalous. Police interviews, maths lessons, doctors’ visits tu…"

-Ben Fergusson, An Honest Man

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29. 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

Similar categories in Nicola Dinan's Bellies book and K.M. Soehnlein's The World of Normal Boys

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Witchmark (The Kingston Cycle, #1) by C.L. Polk

30. Witchmark (The Kingston Cycle, #1)

By: C.L. Polk

3.87

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

C. L. Polk arrives on the scene with Witchmark, a stunning, addictive fantasy that combines intrigu… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Witchmark (The Kingston Cycle, #1) book and K.M. Soehnlein's The World of Normal Boys

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style by Paul   Rudnick

31. Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style

By: Paul Rudnick

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed writer Paul Rudnick, a riotously funny, perceptive, and life-affirming novel fol… read more

Similar categories in Paul Rudnick's Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style book and K.M. Soehnlein's The World of Normal Boys

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"If all the world's a stage, gay people are often expected to understudy themselves, reinterpreting the truth of their performances, depending on who's out front, and who's paying their salary."

-Paul Rudnick, Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style

21 must-read fiction books like The World of Normal Boys by K.M. Soehnlein

Transform Your Habits

So Hard to Say

Alex Sanchez

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Crash

J.G. Ballard

3.59

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A Secret Edge

Robin Reardon

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Maurice

E.M. Forster

3.65

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10 Best classics books like Crash by J.G. Ballard

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J.G. Ballard

3.59

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The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

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Blue of Noon

Harry Mathews , Georges Bataille , Ken Hollings

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