If you liked the literary fiction plot in Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil Bartlett , here is a list of 11 books like this:
1. À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie
By: Hervé Guibert
3.98
Format: 282 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«J'ai eu le sida pendant trois mois. Plus exactement, j'ai cru pendant trois mois que j'étais conda… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- queer
"Muzil passa une matinée à l'hôpital pour faire des examens, il me raconta à quel point le corps, il l'avait oublié, lancé dans les circuits médicaux, perd toute identité, ne reste plus qu'un paquet d…"-Hervé Guibert, À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie
"maintenant qu'il connaissait cette douleur Muzil la craignait par-dessus tout, ça se lisait désormais dans son oeil la panique d'une souffrance qui n'est plus maîtrisée à l'intérieur du corps mais pr…"-Hervé Guibert, À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie
"Dans la cour de l'hôpital éclairée par ce soleil de juin qui devenait la pire injure au malheur, je compris, pour la première fois car quand Stéphane l'avait dit je n'avais pas voulu le croire, que M…"-Hervé Guibert, À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie
"Je n'ai jamais si peu souffert que depuis que je sais que j'ai le sida, je suis très attentig aux manifestations de la progression du virus, il me semble connaître la cartographie de ses colonisation…"-Hervé Guibert, À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie
2. A Single Man
By: Christopher Isherwood
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving p… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
3. Loaded
By: Christos Tsiolkas
3.89
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Families can detonate. Some families are torn apart forever by one small act, one solitary mistake.… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
4. Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall
By: Neil Bartlett
3.67
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- gay fiction
- queer lit
- fiction
- queer
5. More Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #2)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.00
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The divinely human comedy that began with Tales of the Cityrolls recklessly along as Michael Tolliv… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- gay fiction
- fiction
- queer
6. The Bell
By: Iris Murdoch , A.S. Byatt
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
7. 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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8. 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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9. London Triptych
By: Jonathan Kemp
3.59
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Jack Rose begins his apprenticeship as a rent boy with Alfred Taylor in the 1890s, and finds a life… read more
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10. The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
By: Alan Downs
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The gay male world today is characterized by seductive beauty, artful creativity, flamboyant sexual… read more
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11. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
12. 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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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- 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
13. Bolla
By: Pajtim Statovci
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Kansainvälisen tähtikirjailijan lumoava romaani sokeasta rakkaudesta, sodasta, kodittomuudesta ja k… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"Faced with death a person is as close to the radiance of life as can be. A lack of options is in fact a multitude of possibilities."-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla
"War is born of war and there is no war that will end a war, and the disgust the boy caused was war’s finger, a fist shoved down the throat."-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla
"One raised with fear never learns to live without it. When you take away its cause, fear manifests, becoming its own consequences – a lingering suspicion, hallucinations and waking dreams."-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla
"Isn’t it strange how – again and again, as if to humiliate themselves – people fool themselves into thinking they can get time back somehow? How time only becomes important once it has passed?"-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla
14. The Gentleman From Peru
By: André Aciman
3.56
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
It’s been 10 years since a group of college friends made a vow: that the first to get rich would re… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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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- queer
- 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
16. The Kingdom of Sand
By: Andrew Holleran
3.51
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
One of the great appeals of Florida has always been the sense that the minute you get here you have… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"It is a fact seldom observed that after a certain age a single man is a creature no one has a place for"-Andrew Holleran, The Kingdom of Sand
"When the American novelist Howard Sturgis lay on his deathbed he was cared for so solicitously by his life partner that at one point Sturgis had to remind him, "A watched pot never boils"—surely one …"-Andrew Holleran, The Kingdom of Sand
17. Cleanness
By: Garth Greenwell
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"Anything I am you have use for is yours."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
18. 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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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"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
19. Love, Leda
By: Mark Hyatt
3.78
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
It’s mid morning. Cool. Not many coffee bars open. I, the brave one, god of any telephone kiosk, wa… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- queer
20. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar
By: Harry Nicholas
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of wh… read more
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- queer lit
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
21. We Can Be Heroes: A Survivor's Story
By: Paul Burston
4.08
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
Activist. Journalist. Survivor. One man’s journey from prejudice to Pride. Paul Burston wasn’t alwa… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
