10 best-selling gay books like Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones

Cover of Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones

Box Hill

By: Adam Mars-Jones

3.56

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Box Hill is a sizzling, sometimes shocking, and strangely tragic love story between two men, set in…

If you liked the gay plot in Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Black Vodka: Ten Stories by Deborah Levy, Michèle Roberts

1. Black Vodka: Ten Stories

By: Deborah Levy , Michèle Roberts

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

'Kissing you is like new paint and old pain. It is like coffee and car alarms and a dim stairway an… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Levy's Black Vodka: Ten Stories book and Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst

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

Similar categories in Alan Hollinghurst's The Swimming-Pool Library book and Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

  • gay
  • british literature
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Faggots by Reynolds Price, Larry Kramer

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

Similar categories in Reynolds Price's Faggots book and Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell

4. 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

Similar categories in Garth Greenwell's What Belongs to You book and Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Closer by Dennis Cooper

5. Closer

By: Dennis Cooper

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind wit… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's Closer book and Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of O amor dos homens avulsos by Victor Heringer

6. O amor dos homens avulsos

By: Victor Heringer

4.00

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

No calor de um suburbio carioca, um garoto cresce em meio a partidas de futebol, conversas sobre te… read more

Similar categories in Victor Heringer's O amor dos homens avulsos book and Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill

7. 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

Similar categories in Jamie O'Neill's At Swim, Two Boys book and Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer

8. Valentino

By: Natalia Ginzburg

4.13

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Natalia Ginzburg's Valentino book and Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

9. The Carnivorous Lamb

By: William Rodarmor , Agustín Gómez Arcos , Jamie O'Neill , None

4.31

Format: 517 pages, Paperback

The latest in the Little Sister's Classics series resurrecting gay and lesbian literary gems: a vic… read more

Similar categories in William Rodarmor's The Carnivorous Lamb book and Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

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10. 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

Similar categories in Jon Ransom's The Whale Tattoo book and Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Pity by Andrew McMillan

11. Pity

By: Andrew McMillan

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and … read more

Similar categories in Andrew McMillan's Pity book and Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones

12. Box Hill

By: Adam Mars-Jones

3.56

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Box Hill is a sizzling, sometimes shocking, and strangely tragic love story between two men, set in… read more

Similar categories in Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill book and Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell

13. 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 Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

  • literary fiction
  • 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 Brian by Jeremy Cooper

14. Brian

By: Jeremy Cooper

3.83

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A tender meditation on friendship and the importance of community,  Brian  is also a tangential wor… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Cooper's Brian book and Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Owlish by Dorothy Tse

15. Owlish

By: Dorothy Tse

3.39

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A professor falls in love with a mechanical ballerina in a mordant and uncanny fable of contemporar… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy Tse's Owlish book and Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of In Tongues by Thomas Grattan

16. 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 Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson

17. Hagstone

By: Sinéad Gleeson

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more

Similar categories in Sinéad Gleeson's Hagstone book and Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of New York City in 1979 by Kathy Acker

18. New York City in 1979

By: Kathy Acker

3.11

Format: 47 pages, Paperback

"It is necessary to go to as many extremes as possible." A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and … read more

Similar categories in Kathy Acker's New York City in 1979 book and Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

  • fiction
"Intense sexual desire is the best thing in the world."

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

"The two main girlfriends he has had wanted him to support them in the manner to which they certainly weren't accustomed even though he couldn't put his flabby hands on a penny."

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

"old people have to go to children's or most often to rest homes where they are shunted into wheelchairs and made as fast as possible into zombies cause it's easier to handle a zombie, if you have to …"

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

Cover of While We Were Dreaming by Clemens Meyer

19. While We Were Dreaming

By: Clemens Meyer

3.97

Format: 597 pages, Paperback

Rico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig… read more

Similar categories in Clemens Meyer's While We Were Dreaming book and Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Small Rain by Garth Greenwell

20. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

Similar categories in Garth Greenwell's Small Rain book and Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Private Rites by Julia Armfield

21. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

13 must-read lgbt books like Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones

Transform Your Habits

The Swimming-Pool Library

Alan Hollinghurst

3.16

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Faggots

Reynolds Price , Larry Kramer

4.26

Transform Your Habits

What Belongs to You

Garth Greenwell

4.29

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Closer

Dennis Cooper

3.72

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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

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Garth Greenwell

4.29

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