A Boy's Own Story
By: Edmund White
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A B…
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1. 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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2. 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
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3. Faggots
By: Reynolds Price , Larry Kramer
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Paperback
Larry Kramer's Faggots has been in print since its original publication in 1978 and has become one … read more
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- classics
- gay
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4. 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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- classics
- gay
- lgbt
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- queer
5. 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
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6. 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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- classics
- gay
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7. What Belongs to You
By: Garth Greenwell
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia's Na… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
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8. A Boy's Own Story
By: Edmund White
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A B… read more
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- classics
- gay
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- coming of age
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- novels
- queer
Similar categories in Philippe Besson's In the Absence of Men book and Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story
- fiction
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10. 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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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
11. City of Night
By: John Rechy
3.85
Format: 128 pages,
When John Rechy's explosive first novel, City of Night, was first published in 1963, it became a na… read more
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12. 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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- classics
- gay
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- novels
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"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
13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
By: Kathryn Harrison , Paul Monette
4.18
Format: 411 pages, Paperback
A child of the 1950s from a small New England town, "perfect Paul" earns straight A's and shines in… read more
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17. 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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- fiction
- queer
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- lgbt
"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
18. 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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"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
19. 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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- queer
- gay
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"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
20. 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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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- novels
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"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
21. 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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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"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
