8 Top historical fiction books like Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10) by Armistead Maupin

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Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

By: Armistead Maupin

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Franci…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10) by Armistead Maupin , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Henry Henry

By: Allen Bratton

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more

Similar categories in Allen Bratton's Henry Henry book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."

-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry

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2. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

Similar categories in Michael Cunningham's Day book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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3. One Love

By: Matt Cain

3.76

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

Two men. Twenty years of friendship. One love. 2002. Danny arrives at Manchester University dete… read more

Similar categories in Matt Cain's One Love book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • queer
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4. Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

By: Armistead Maupin

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Franci… read more

Similar categories in Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10) book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • humor
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • queer
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5. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

By: Cynthia Carr

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol su… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Carr's Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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7. Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring

By: Brad Gooch

4.39

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

“It’s all  the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for … read more

Similar categories in Brad Gooch's Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • contemporary
  • gay
  • lgbt
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8. The House of Hidden Meanings

By: RuPaul

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more

Similar categories in RuPaul's The House of Hidden Meanings book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • gay
  • queer
"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

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9. Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Philip Gefter

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning writer reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the provocative play, the groundbrea… read more

Similar categories in Philip Gefter's Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • audiobook
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10. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

By: Steven Rowley

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • lgbt
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. All the World Beside

By: Garrard Conley

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England … read more

Similar categories in Garrard Conley's All the World Beside book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
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12. Disorderly Men

By: Edward Cahill

4.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Three gay men in pre-Stonewall NYC find their fates thrown together in the police raid of a Village… read more

Similar categories in Edward Cahill's Disorderly Men book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
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13. In Tongues

By: Thomas Grattan

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Grattan's In Tongues book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • queer
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14. Providence

By: Craig Willse

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An introverted English professor falls for an enigmatic sophomore and is lured into a web of chaos … read more

Similar categories in Craig Willse's Providence book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • queer
"He reminded me of a scene from a movie, any movie: men standing in doorways, filling the space with their silence."

-Craig Willse, Providence

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15. Four Squares

By: Bobby Finger

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of The Old Place comes a tender, funny, and fresh novel spanning the 1990s … read more

Similar categories in Bobby Finger's Four Squares book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • queer
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16. The Diaries of Mr Lucas: Notes from a Lost Gay Life

By: Hugo Greenhalgh

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

FOR NEARLY 60 YEARS Mr George Lucas led a double life. A mild-mannered civil servant by day, by nig… read more

Similar categories in Hugo Greenhalgh's The Diaries of Mr Lucas: Notes from a Lost Gay Life book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • queer lit
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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17. The Future Was Color

By: Patrick Nathan

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling novel about making art, desire, and the inextricable link between the personal and the p… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
Cover of With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic by A. Ashley Hoff

18. With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic

By: A. Ashley Hoff

3.89

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

When she died in 1977, Joan Crawford was remembered as an icon of Hollywood's Golden Age—until publ… read more

Similar categories in A. Ashley Hoff's With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • audiobook
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19. Hombrecito

By: Santiago Jose Sanchez

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film (Turner Classic Movies) by Alonso Duralde

20. Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film (Turner Classic Movies)

By: Alonso Duralde

4.58

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For generations, members of the LGBTQ+ community in Hollywood needed to be “discreet” about their l… read more

Similar categories in Alonso Duralde's Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film (Turner Classic Movies) book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • audiobook
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21. We Could Be Heroes

By: Philip Ellis

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear high heels and a wig. Patrick's acting career is on the rise,… read more

Similar categories in Philip Ellis's We Could Be Heroes book and Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

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Allen Bratton

3.65

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Michael Cunningham

3.57

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One Love

Matt Cain

3.76

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Armistead Maupin

4.11

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3.65

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Kaveh Akbar

4.24

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Chukwuebuka Ibeh

4.20

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August Thompson

4.11

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