My Favorite Gay Fiction
Explore the best gay fiction books with our curated list of favorites. Discover heartfelt stories, compelling characters, and unforgettable LGBTQ+ narratives.
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The Swimming-Pool Library
by Alan Hollinghurst
The dazzling first novel from the best-selling, Booker Prize-Winning author of The Line of Beauty and The Sparsholt Affair. An enthralling, darkly erotic novel of …
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Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, …
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The Lost Language of Cranes
by David Leavitt
David Leavitt's extraordinary first novel, now reissued in paperback, is a seminal work about family, sexual identity, home, and loss. Set in the 1980s against …
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The Beautiful Room Is Empty
by Edmund White
When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big …
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The Passion
by Jeanette Winterson
Winner of the 1987 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, this novel explores the many faces of passion. Set in Napoleon's Europe, it is an evocative exploration …
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
Gray's outward innocence conceals corruption deep enough to charm those about him into a life of wanton sexuality.
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Guide
by Dennis Cooper
A writer in Los Angeles visits the world of burnt-out youth as part of researching a novel. He describes the violence, joins them in taking …