Literary Gay Male Fiction Greats
Explore the finest literary gay male fiction with our curated list of iconic books. Discover groundbreaking novels, celebrated authors, and timeless LGBTQ+ stories that shaped queer literature.
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Was
by Geoff Ryman
This haunting, wildly original novel explores the lives of several characters entwined by The Wizard of Oz--both the novel written by L. Frank Baum and …
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Dancer from the Dance
by Andrew Holleran
One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. …
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The Counterfeiters
by Andre Gide
A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France.
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The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon
by Tom Spanbauer
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon is an American epic of the old West for our own times -- a novel huge …
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In a Shallow Grave
by James Purdy
Severly disfigured in the war, Garnet Montrose returns to his fifty-acre farm on the Virginia coast, where he enlists the assistance of hired helpers and …