Contemporary Gay (Male) Literature

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 4.02 avg rating — 375,045 ratings
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Real Life
Real Life 3.79 avg rating — 36,469 ratings
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The Lookback Window
The Lookback Window 3.74 avg rating — 680 ratings
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Less (Arthur Less, #1)
Less (Arthur Less, #1) 3.63 avg rating — 219,052 ratings
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Night Sky with Exit Wounds 4.18 avg rating — 47,844 ratings
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Crush
Crush 4.34 avg rating — 41,092 ratings
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel 4.38 avg rating — 12,203 ratings
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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
by: Chen Chen
4.26 avg rating — 4,211 ratings
9.
Let's Get Back to the Party
Let's Get Back to the Party
by: Zak Salih
3.54 avg rating — 1,545 ratings
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I Have Something to Tell You
I Have Something to Tell You 4.23 avg rating — 6,626 ratings
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Memorial
Memorial 3.57 avg rating — 37,147 ratings
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Physical
Physical 3.91 avg rating — 839 ratings
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The Tradition
The Tradition 4.23 avg rating — 10,005 ratings
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The Prophets
The Prophets 3.91 avg rating — 21,638 ratings
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A History of My Brief Body
A History of My Brief Body 4.18 avg rating — 5,389 ratings
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Lay Your Sleeping Head (Henry Rios #1)
Lay Your Sleeping Head (Henry Rios #1) 4.28 avg rating — 767 ratings
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Inside/Out
Inside/Out 3.93 avg rating — 233 ratings
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Nature Poem
Nature Poem 4.25 avg rating — 3,280 ratings
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Junk
Junk 4.30 avg rating — 833 ratings
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Feed
Feed 4.26 avg rating — 576 ratings
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Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer
Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer 3.70 avg rating — 2,917 ratings
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Soho
Soho 4.08 avg rating — 734 ratings
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Barracuda
Barracuda 3.69 avg rating — 9,238 ratings
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Yes, Daddy
Yes, Daddy 3.57 avg rating — 7,469 ratings
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100 Boyfriends
100 Boyfriends 3.75 avg rating — 5,790 ratings
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Razorblade Tears
Razorblade Tears 4.11 avg rating — 130,497 ratings
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Blue on Blue Ground (Pitt Poetry Series)
Blue on Blue Ground (Pitt Poetry Series) 4.19 avg rating — 75 ratings
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How We Fight For Our Lives
How We Fight For Our Lives 4.27 avg rating — 22,736 ratings
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By Nightfall
By Nightfall 3.44 avg rating — 10,615 ratings
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Speak No Evil
Speak No Evil 3.86 avg rating — 9,435 ratings
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DIG
DIG 4.59 avg rating — 34 ratings
32.
bury it
bury it
by: Sam Sax
4.14 avg rating — 712 ratings
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Lettin It All Hang Out
Lettin It All Hang Out
by: RuPaul
3.97 avg rating — 753 ratings
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Cleanness
Cleanness 3.81 avg rating — 9,574 ratings
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Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution
Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers 4.23 avg rating — 969 ratings
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He Do The Gay Man In Different Voices
He Do The Gay Man In Different Voices 3.97 avg rating — 79 ratings
38.
A History of the Unmarried
A History of the Unmarried 4.34 avg rating — 44 ratings
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This Wound Is a World
This Wound Is a World 4.45 avg rating — 2,451 ratings
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Shelter
Shelter 4.26 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out 3.78 avg rating — 4,973 ratings
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Appetite (Pitt Poetry Series)
Appetite (Pitt Poetry Series) 4.22 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall
Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall 3.59 avg rating — 317 ratings
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Davie Street Translations
Davie Street Translations 4.18 avg rating — 40 ratings
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On the Tongue
On the Tongue
by: Jeff Mann
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
46.
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1) 4.25 avg rating — 104,803 ratings
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People I've Met From The Internet
People I've Met From The Internet 4.12 avg rating — 173 ratings
48.
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions 4.50 avg rating — 6,451 ratings
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Primer (Pitt Poetry Series)
Primer (Pitt Poetry Series) 4.20 avg rating — 93 ratings
50.
Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person
Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person 3.53 avg rating — 586 ratings
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Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog
Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog 4.36 avg rating — 289 ratings
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How It All Blew Up
How It All Blew Up 3.84 avg rating — 4,877 ratings
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EFFEMINATE
EFFEMINATE it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 36,261 ratings
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My Life as Adam
My Life as Adam 4.50 avg rating — 30 ratings
56.
Darius the Great Deserves Better (Darius the Great, #2)
Darius the Great Deserves Better (Darius the Great, #2) 4.25 avg rating — 11,169 ratings
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Endowing Vegetables With Too Much Meaning
Endowing Vegetables With Too Much Meaning 4.64 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Tourist
Tourist 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Surrender Your Sons
Surrender Your Sons
by: Adam Sass
4.01 avg rating — 2,966 ratings
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Tertulia
Tertulia 4.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
61.
Destroy All Monsters
Destroy All Monsters 3.55 avg rating — 658 ratings
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I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé 3.77 avg rating — 4,310 ratings
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Death Prefers Blondes
Death Prefers Blondes 3.78 avg rating — 1,279 ratings
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IRL
IRL 4.25 avg rating — 1,230 ratings
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No One Can Pronounce My Name
No One Can Pronounce My Name 3.66 avg rating — 3,585 ratings
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Notes from a Marriage
Notes from a Marriage 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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This Way to the Sugar
This Way to the Sugar 4.11 avg rating — 802 ratings
68.
Playtime
Playtime 4.07 avg rating — 313 ratings
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The Willies
The Willies 4.10 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Not Here
Not Here 4.31 avg rating — 1,471 ratings
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The Book of Daniel: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)
The Book of Daniel: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) 4.11 avg rating — 79 ratings
72.
The Male Muse: A Gay Anthology
The Male Muse: A Gay Anthology
by: Ian Young
4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings
73.
Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown
Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown 3.90 avg rating — 1,497 ratings
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Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002
Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 3.95 avg rating — 35,546 ratings