Good gay fiction books
Due to the delightfully large volume of titles, Romances will be getting their own post later this week!
Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett (January 7th)
At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to repay to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a bloke who wants more than Peter can give. But when the asylum case of a new gay man pierces Peter&#;s numbness, the event that he has avoided for twenty years returns to haunt him.
Ann, his mother, who runs a women&#;s retreat center she founded after departing his father, is wounded by the estrangement from Peter but cherishes the world she has built. She long ago banished from her mind the conclusion that divided her from her son. But as Peter’s case plunges him further into the fraught memory of his first love and the night of violence that changed his animation forever, he and his mother must confront the secret that tore them apart.
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How to Sleep at Night by Elizabeth Harris (January 7th)
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(A time capsule of lgbtq+ opinion, from the belated s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the best lesbian and lgbtq+ novels in the overdue s. Its purpose was to broaden the appreciation of lesbian and queer literature and to promote discussion among all readers same-sex attracted and straight.
The Triangle&#;s Best
The judges who compiled this list were the writers Dorothy Allison, David Bergman, Christopher Bram, Michael Bronski, Samuel Delany, Lillian Faderman, Anthony Heilbut, M.E. Kerr, Jenifer Levin, John Loughery, Jaime Manrique, Mariana Romo-Carmona, Sarah Schulman, and Barbara Smith.
1. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
2. Giovanni&#;s Room by James Baldwin
3. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
4. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
5. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. The Adv of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
8. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Zami by Audré Lorde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
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I really like reading gay sci fi and fantasy series and have read a few and now desire to consume more. I have tried to navigate Goodreads but the lists are so dated and massive that finding anything appealing is difficult. Reddit is also hit or miss so here I am.
To clarify, I do not read books with lesbian or sapphic vibes. Similarly, I act not read books with trans MCs. I elude these POV MCs not because I undervalue their importance rather I just want to imagine myself as someone else and I only wish to do that through same-sex attracted or bi usually cis male MCs.
I contain read many series about gay men written by female authors and hold come to truly notice frustrated by the disconnect I feel when I read flowery language engineered to appeal to other women. To that