Gay Fiction
New 03/09
Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman
The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer guest at his parents' house on the Italian Riviera has a profund and lasting influence that will mark them both for a lifetime, in a novel of obsession, passion, fear, and desire.
He’s the One by Timothy James Beck
Arriving in New York City to realize his dreams as a web site designer, Midwestern jock-slash-computer geek Adam Wilson finds the perfect man in Jeremy, a gorgeous TV actor, and launches an all-out campaign to win his heart – an endeavor that teaches Adam a thing or two about true love.
Male Model by Dave Benbow
When his secret affair with glamorous designer Cameron Fuller leads to fame and fortune as a male model, window display designer Blake Jackson is swept into the world of the rich and famous where he becomes the "it" boy, but someone jealous of Blake's success is determined to destroy them both.
Liquor by Poppy Z. Brite
Desperate to make a quick buck, down-and-out cooks Rickey and G-Man come up with the idea to create a theme restaurant in which every dish is loaded with an alcoholic punch.
The Line of Beauty by Alan Holinghurst
Moving into the attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy, politically connected Fedden family in 1983, 20-year-old Nick Guest becomes caught up in the rising fortunes of this glamorous family and finds his own life forever altered by his association during the boom years of the 1980s.
The Things We Do For Love by Xavier Knight
Enjoying a richly satisfying life as the husband of an evangelist wife and the lead of a men's gospel group, Jesse Law struggles to help a fellow band member who has been exposed as a homosexual, an effort that reminds Jesse of his own painful childhood and brief stint as a successful secular music star.
Clay’s Way by Blair Mastbaum
Set against the dazzling backdrop of Hawaii's Oahu and Kauai islands, Clay's Way seethes with energy and hormonally charged nihilism. For 15-year-old Sam, a wanna-be punk rocker who writes bad haiku poetry, his middle-class suburban life feels like a prison. Mistaking lust for fate, Sam becomes obsessed with Clay, a 17-year-old surfer, outwardly cool but equally adrift. The violence and tumult of Clay's search for identity propels him, with desperately confused Sam in his wake, through the hardest decisions and obstacles of their young lives.
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Part of the collection Close Range, Annie Proulx's short story packs a punch. Cowboys Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar find love or something like it watching over a herd of sheep one summer on Wyoming's Brokeback Mountain. Their lives diverge and intersect again and again as they simultaneously resist and are drawn into a doomed, impossible romance.
War Against the Animals by Paul Russell
Having relocated to a small town in upstate New York, AIDS survivor Cameron hires two local boys to perform some renovation work and is torn between the friendship of one and the volatility of the other.
Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo
Returning to his apartment, Angel finds a group of drunken teenagers taunting a wounded troll, so Angel decides to take him in, a decision that changes Angel's life forever.
The Wild Man by Patricia Nell Warren
With his overweening machismo, the complex hero, a closeted matador at the end of Franco's rule in Spain, is never entirely sympathetic but always fascinating. He is aware of the political and social changes of the 1960s but must face the conflict between the demands of his aristocratic family and the traditions of his sport, on the one hand, and his growing love for an idealistic young peasant on the other.