27 must-read queer books like Bath Haus by P.J. Vernon

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Bath Haus

By: P.J. Vernon

3.76

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Oliver Park, a young recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriet…

If you liked the queer plot in Bath Haus by P.J. Vernon , here is a list of 27 books like this:

Cover of The Sluts by Dennis Cooper

1. The Sluts

By: Dennis Cooper

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's The Sluts book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon

2. 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

Similar categories in Thomas Mallon's Fellow Travelers book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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3. The Devil's Trinity

By: Michael Parker

4.26

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

A modern day thriller pitching the ultimate terror against the United States of America.CIA agent, … read more

Similar categories in Michael Parker's The Devil's Trinity book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • fiction
"Are you ready for nuclear Armageddon?"

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"Harry Marsham, who was known as Marsh to his friends, should have died that night."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"And in that vast emptiness, two heads bobbed above the surface without a sound, just one hundred feet from them."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"That’s the second time you’ve apologised in less than a minute, Remo. When you have to do that to an admiral it could be your career on the line."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

4. 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

Similar categories in Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

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5. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Camp Damascus book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • queer
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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6. Summer Sons

By: Lee Mandelo

3.80

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddi… read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's Summer Sons book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
"It's a choice I made, getting in this thing with you, whatever it is. But don't mistake me, I'm not interested in filling in for a ghost."

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

"His face twisted through several contradictory emotions and he said, "For fuck's sake Andrew. Is there anything in this scenario that feels heterosexual or well-adjusted to you?"

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

"I’m sorry he died before you figured it out. For what it’s worth, I think you might’ve eventually, without me there to displace your bullshit onto. He was head over heels for you, and everyone knew b…"

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

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7. 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 P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • 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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8. The Darkness Outside Us

By: Eliot Schrefer

4.32

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Two boys, alone in space. After the first settler on Titan trips her distress signal, neither re… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Schrefer's The Darkness Outside Us book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • queer
"Wow, that was salty. I kind of like it,"

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

"Today he smells like motor oil. It's sort of exotic-erotic."

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

"Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power."

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

"I can manually debug a few hundred thousand lines. It won't be fun, but I ... who am I kidding, it will be fun."

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

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9. Best Men

By: Sidney Karger

3.34

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

When two best men in a wedding party fall for each other, they realize love isn't a piece of cake i… read more

Similar categories in Sidney Karger's Best Men book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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10. 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

Similar categories in Tomasz Jedrowski's Swimming in the Dark book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

Cover of Bath Haus by P.J.  Vernon

11. Bath Haus

By: P.J. Vernon

3.76

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Oliver Park, a young recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriet… read more

Similar categories in P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
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12. 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

Similar categories in Philippe Besson's Lie With Me book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

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

Cover of These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

13. These Violent Delights

By: Micah Nemerever

3.97

Format: 460 pages, Hardcover

When Paul and Julian meet as university freshmen in early 1970s Pittsburgh, they are immediately dr… read more

Similar categories in Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"There’s this idea in psychoanalysis that I’ve always liked."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"I don’t think you’ve ever felt anything that didn’t hurt you,"

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"In the end, there wasn’t any difference between trusting someone and underestimating them."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

Cover of Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin

14. 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

Similar categories in Jeremy Atherton Lin's Gay Bar: Why We Went Out book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • gay
  • queer
"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

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15. 100 Boyfriends

By: Brontez Purnell

3.76

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An irreverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero … read more

Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's 100 Boyfriends book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"You never stop looking like art to me"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"I, being what one therapist jokingly referred to as a “clinical sex addict,"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"I had fucked enough boys with Catholic damage to know that if he's wearing a crucifix, he's definitely a ho."

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"My only desire is to be desired. I feel like the whole equation cancels itself out and what it really means is I have no will—I can (at will) rip out all sense of self just so a boy can have one more…"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

Cover of Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O'Connell

16. Just by Looking at Him

By: Ryan O'Connell

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the star of Peacock’s Queer as Folk and the Netflix series Special comes a “funny, tender, and… read more

Similar categories in Ryan O'Connell's Just by Looking at Him book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I used to believe it was a privilege to be loved by anybody. Not anymore."

-Ryan O'Connell, Just by Looking at Him

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17. Yes, Daddy

By: Jonathan Parks-Ramage

3.59

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is lured by an… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Parks-Ramage's Yes, Daddy book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
Cover of Let's Get Back to the Party by Zak Salih

18. Let's Get Back to the Party

By: Zak Salih

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

What Does It Mean to Be a Gay Man Today? It’s just weeks after the historic Supreme Court marriage … read more

Similar categories in Zak Salih's Let's Get Back to the Party book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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19. Anyone's Ghost

By: August Thompson

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more

Similar categories in August Thompson's Anyone's Ghost book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1) by Lev A.C. Rosen

20. Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

By: Lev A.C. Rosen

3.87

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the … read more

Similar categories in Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1) book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"Even when your dream is taken from you, you can have a great new life."

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

"People are always trying to claim you, without ever listening to who you are. They want you to be something else, to be the role they have for you in the family. But really, we're all better off just…"

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

Cover of Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

21. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

Cover of Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto by Zachary  Zane

22. Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto

By: Zachary Zane

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of the Year by Buzzfeed A sex and relationship columnist b… read more

Similar categories in Zachary Zane's Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • gay
  • queer
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23. 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 P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • fiction
  • lgbt
  • gay
  • queer
Cover of Disorderly Men by Edward  Cahill

24. 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 P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In Tongues by Thomas Grattan

25. 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 P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Providence by Craig  Willse

26. 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 P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • mystery thriller
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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

Cover of The Bright Lands by John Fram

27. The Bright Lands

By: John Fram

3.41

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The town of Bentley holds two things dear: its football, and its secrets. But when star quarterback… read more

Similar categories in John Fram's The Bright Lands book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The Gay Best Friend by Nicolas DiDomizio

28. The Gay Best Friend

By: Nicolas DiDomizio

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

an alternate cover edition can be found here He's always been the token gay best friend. Now, st… read more

Similar categories in Nicolas DiDomizio's The Gay Best Friend book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Worryin only gives the small things big shadows"

-Nicolas DiDomizio, The Gay Best Friend

Cover of Seeing Strangers by Sebastian J. Plata

29. Seeing Strangers

By: Sebastian J. Plata

3.45

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

A stylish novel of obsession set in a world where sex is just a swipe away. Life is going well f… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian J. Plata's Seeing Strangers book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Red X by David Demchuk

30. Red X

By: David Demchuk

3.77

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A hunted community. A haunted author. A horror that spans centuries. Men are disappearing from T… read more

Similar categories in David Demchuk's Red X book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • queer
Cover of Boy Fallen by Chris  Gill

31. Boy Fallen

By: Chris Gill

4.22

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

A POWERFUL CRIME MYSTERY WITH A YOUNG MAN’S JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY AT ITS CORE When the body… read more

Similar categories in Chris Gill's Boy Fallen book and P.J. Vernon's Bath Haus

  • mystery thriller
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller

27 best-selling fiction books like Bath Haus by P.J. Vernon

Transform Your Habits

The Sluts

Dennis Cooper

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Fellow Travelers

Thomas Mallon

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Trinity

Michael Parker

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

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16 best-selling fiction books like 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell

Transform Your Habits

The Sluts

Dennis Cooper

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Faggots

Reynolds Price , Larry Kramer

4.26

Transform Your Habits

What Belongs to You

Garth Greenwell

4.29

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