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…
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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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- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"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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- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
3. 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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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
4. 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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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
5. 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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- fiction
- gay
- lgbt
6. 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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- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
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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- fiction
- queer
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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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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
9. 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
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- ireland
- queer
10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical 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
14. 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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- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"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
15. The Whale Tattoo
By: Jon Ransom
3.75
Format: None pages, None
Cruelly beautiful, utterly authentic – introducing a searingly talented new Queer writer. When a… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
16. Swimming in the Dark
By: Tomasz Jedrowski
4.26
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story o… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"Little sparks cause fires too."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
"I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
"Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
"See it as a game– everyone knows the rules. And if you can’t change them, there’s no point in worrying."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
17. Young Mungo
By: Douglas Stuart
4.38
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a … read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"It was a nothing that felt like an everything."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
18. Lie With Me
By: Philippe Besson
4.26
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage … read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"You get used to everything, even the defection of those you thought you were bound to forever."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
19. All Down Darkness Wide
By: Seán Hewitt
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"When they said, 'I'm just scared that you'll be unhappy', what I really felt they were saying was 'I am scared that if you continue being yourself, we will make you unhappy."-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
20. 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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- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"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
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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- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"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
