8 best-selling lgbt books like The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin

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The Night Listener

By: Armistead Maupin

4.01

Format: 560 pages,

Gabriel Noone forms a bond with a young, troubled listener to his late-night radio show. As Noone's…

If you liked the lgbt plot in The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Berlin Stories

By: Christopher Isherwood

4.04

Format: 401 pages, Paperback

First published in 1935 and 1939, the two related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Ber… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Isherwood's The Berlin Stories book and Armistead Maupin's The Night Listener

  • novels
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"From 1929 to 1933, [age 25-29] I lived almost continuously in Berlin, with only occasional visits to other parts of Germany and to England. Already, during that time, I had made up my mind that I wou…"

-Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories

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2. The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)

By: Anne Rice

3.75

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

In a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that b… read more

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  • fiction
"The Vampire Lestat here."

-Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)

"God is love. But I'm not sure God is absolutely brilliant."

-Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)

"One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world."

-Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)

"What in hell was mortality? Shitting, pissing, eating, and then the same cycle all over again!"

-Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)

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3. Dirty Love

By: Andre Dubus III

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this heartbreakingly beautiful book of disillusioned intimacy and persistent yearning, beloved a… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He tried to remember her ever being this way before. In her voice--almost overexuberant--was not simply holiday cheer but joyous relief, like some terminally ill patient who's just been told she's no…"

-Andre Dubus III, Dirty Love

"... beach houses along short sandy streets. He can feel her bare forarm brushing his, and it's strange she's being so quiet. He glances down at her and she smiles up at him as if, in his silence, he'…"

-Andre Dubus III, Dirty Love

"It's been six months, Nancy.' 'What's your hurry? It took me a year to get used to living with Carl. I mean, what do men do anyway? They work, eat, drink, and play games. Sex for them is in the sport…"

-Andre Dubus III, Dirty Love

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4. A Home at the End of the World

By: Michael Cunningham

3.93

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Michael Cunningham’s celebrated novel is the story of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, intros… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
"I’m not this unusual,"

-Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

"I was not beautiful, but I believed I had the possibility of beauty in me."

-Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

"This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand."

-Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

"The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws."

-Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

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5. Heart Songs and Other Stories

By: Annie Proulx

3.95

Format: 203 pages, Paperback

Before she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx was alrea… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Comfort & Joy

By: India Knight

3.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

It's December 23rd and Clara Dunphy is running around Oxford Street like a blue-arsed fly trying to… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
" Happy Christmas, Clara. Xx. Yes, I know. I know that text doesn't look like much. But... actually. First note the comma. I feel proud of his comma, and of being his comma's recipient."

-India Knight, Comfort & Joy

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7. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

By: Sherman Alexie

4.09

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilli… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The ordinary can be like medicine."

-Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

"Summer coming like a car from down the highway."

-Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

"Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace."

-Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

"The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting."

-Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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8. Climbers

By: M. John Harrison

4.00

Format: 202 pages,

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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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
  • fiction
  • novels
  • queer
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10. A Place I've Never Been

By: David Leavitt

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

A collection of ten stories which explore the joys and agonies of love and friendship. Each of the … read more

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  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of Darling Days: A Memoir by iO Tillett Wright

11. Darling Days: A Memoir

By: iO Tillett Wright

4.00

Format: 45 pages, ebook

Unfolding in animated, crystalline prose, an emotionally raw, devastatingly powerful memoir of one … read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Merrick (The Vampire Chronicles #7) by Anne Rice

12. Merrick (The Vampire Chronicles #7)

By: Anne Rice

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this mesmerizing new novel, Anne Rice demonstrates once again her gift for spellbinding storytel… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin

13. The Night Listener

By: Armistead Maupin

4.01

Format: 560 pages,

Gabriel Noone forms a bond with a young, troubled listener to his late-night radio show. As Noone's… read more

Similar categories in Armistead Maupin's The Night Listener book and Armistead Maupin's The Night Listener

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • novels
  • queer
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14. A Wolf at the Table

By: Augusten Burroughs

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Hardcover

"As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead bod… read more

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15. The Last Summer

By: Ann Brashares , Edith Beleites

3.92

Format: 292 pages,

Riley and Alice, two sisters now in their twenties, and as fiercely different as they are loyal, ha… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Very Valentine

By: Adriana Trigiani

3.94

Format: 456 pages,

Meet Valentine, an unforgettable and passionate woman with a heart and a dream as big as New York C… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Vernon God Little

By: D.B.C. Pierre

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Named as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQmagazine in 2003, the riotous adventures of V… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Huono tyttö

By: Sara Al Husaini

4.03

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Vuoden pakolaisnaisen omakohtainen esikoisromaani ravistelee ytimiä myöten. Äiti saattaa pelosta… read more

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19. Where They Lie

By: Claire Coughlan

3.34

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An immersive, literary thriller about an ambitious young female journalist whose investigation of a… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret through the AIDS Crisis by Jill Nalder

20. Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret through the AIDS Crisis

By: Jill Nalder

4.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'I read the book in one go. I laughed and cried like a baby, and was transported back to a time of … read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures by Adam Zmith

21. Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

By: Adam Zmith

3.56

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Adam Zmith reveals the long history of the quick rush from sniffing poppers. 3, 2, 1... inhale, … read more

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  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"The future is who we become in the next forty-five seconds."

-Adam Zmith, Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

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Christopher Isherwood

4.04

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Anne Rice

3.75

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Andre Dubus III

3.53

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Michael Cunningham

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Julie Lessman

3.98

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Andre Dubus III

3.53

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Annie Proulx

3.95

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India Knight

3.26

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