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  • Boy Underground by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Boy Underground by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    During WWII, a teenage boy finds his voice, the courage of his convictions, and friends for life in an emotional and uplifting novel by the New York Times and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author.1941. Steven Katz is the son of prosperous landowners in rural California. Although his parents don’t approve, he’s found true friends in Nick, Suki, and Ollie, sons of field workers...
  • Subtle Blood by K.J. Charles

    Subtle Blood by K.J. Charles

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Will Darling is all right. His business is doing well, and so is his illicit relationship with Kim Secretan--disgraced aristocrat, ex-spy, amateur book-dealer. It’s starting to feel like he’s got his life under control.And then a brutal murder in a gentleman’s club plunges them back into the shadow world of crime, deception, and the power of privilege...
  • Carry the World by Susan Fanetti

    Carry the World by Susan Fanetti

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Eastern Kentucky, 1937. After the death of her husband, Ada Donovan returned home to live again with her aging parents. She does all she can to help them keep the small family farm going. But times are hard, and there’s never enough...
  • You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian

    You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance for fans of Evvie Drake Starts Over, about grief and found family, between the new star shortstop stuck in a batting slump and the reporter assigned to (reluctantly) cover his first season—set in the same universe as We Could Be So Good.The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to be the worst year of Eddie O’Leary’s life...
  • All About That Duke by Merry Farmer

    All About That Duke by Merry Farmer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lady Chloe O’Shea lives life with her head in the clouds—or, rather, the stars. As a budding astrologer, she thinks the course of the world and her life is written in the stars, and if she just looks hard enough, she can see where the future will take her. But the last thing she saw coming was a handsome duke with a secret...
  • The Sugared Game by K.J. Charles

    The Sugared Game by K.J. Charles

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    It's been two months since Will Darling saw Kim Secretan, and he doesn't expect to see him again. What do a rough and ready soldier-turned-bookseller and a disgraced shady aristocrat have to do with each other anyway?But when Will encounters a face from the past in a disreputable nightclub, Kim turns up, as shifty, unreliable, and irresistible as ever...
  • Magic's Price by Mercedes Lackey

    Magic's Price by Mercedes Lackey

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The final chapter in Mercedes Lackey's spellbinding fantasy trilogy! The Herald-Mage, Vanyel, and his Companion, Yfandes, are alone responsible for saving the once-peaceful kingdom of Valdemar from the forces of a master who wields a dark, forbidding magic. And if either Vanyel or Yfandes falters, both Valdemar and its Herald-Mage must pay the ultimate price...
  • Peter Cabot Gets Lost by Cat Sebastian

    Peter Cabot Gets Lost by Cat Sebastian

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Summer 1960:After years of scraping by, Caleb Murphy has graduated from college and is finally getting to start a new life. Except he suddenly has no way to get from Boston to Los Angeles. Then, to add to his misery, there's perfect, privileged Peter Cabot offering to drive him...
  • Into Deep Waters by Kaje Harper

    Into Deep Waters by Kaje Harper

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    For Jacob and Daniel, two young gay men aboard a Navy ship in WWII, the risks were high. Not just the risks of injury and death from Japanese planes and submarines, but the risk of discovery, of discharge, imprisonment or worse. Only a special kind of love was worth taking that chance. But from the moment Daniel met Jacob's eyes across a battle-scarred deck, he knew he had to try...
  • A Trail of Fire by Diana Gabaldon

    A Trail of Fire by Diana Gabaldon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Four extraordinary stories featuring characters from the bestselling OUTLANDER series. In Lord John and the Plague of Zombies Lord John Grey is posted to Jamaica to assist the Governor as he faces a most unusual kind of uprising among the colony's slave population...
  • Stalking Darkness by Lynn Flewelling

    Stalking Darkness by Lynn Flewelling

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    With the Leran threat laid to rest, Alec and Seregil are now able to turn their attention to the ancient evil which threatens their land. The Plenimarans, at war with Skalans, have decided to defeat their ancient enemy by raising up the Dead God, Seriamaius...
  • The Wordsmith by Tess Thompson

    The Wordsmith by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She didn’t want to fall in love with him. He was too old, too English, and too much her sister’s best friend. Worst of all, he’s promised to another woman. Will duty keep them apart forever?As a child Adelaide Barnes felt sure she wouldn’t live to be an adult. However, she’s grown into a beautiful and ambitious young woman with big dreams for a literary career...
  • We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian

    We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Casey McQuiston meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this mid-century romdram about a scrappy reporter and a newspaper mogul's son--perfect for Newsies shippers. Nick Russo has worked his way from a rough Brooklyn neighborhood to a reporting job at one of the city's biggest newspapers. But the late 1950s are a hostile time for gay men, and Nick knows that he can't let anyone into his life...
  • The Magic of You by Johanna Lindsey

    The Magic of You by Johanna Lindsey

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] ACE #1 ACE #2 As wild and reckless as the most incorrigible of her male cousins, Amy Malory has reached a marriageable age and has set her sights on a most inappropriate mate: the straight-laced American ship captain who once nearly had her Uncle James hung hanged for piracy...
  • If You Wannabe My Marquess by Merry Farmer

    If You Wannabe My Marquess by Merry Farmer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lady Colleen O’Shea simply cannot stand Lord Benedict Boleran. He is overbearing, he is arrogant, he is opinionated, he is handsome and has lovely eyes and a fine form and...oh dear. But no, she most definitely cannot abide him. And she won’t fall victim to her brother’s marriage machinations and marry the man...
  • Destination Unknown by Bill Konigsberg

    Destination Unknown by Bill Konigsberg

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From Stonewall Award winner Bill Konigsberg, a remarkable, funny, sexy, heartbreaking story of two teen boys finding each other in New York City at the height of the AIDS epidemic.The first thing I noticed about C.J. Gorman was his plexiglass bra. So begins Destination Unknown. It's 1987 in New York City, and Micah is at a dance club, trying to pretend he's more out and outgoing than he really is...
  • Once a Rogue by Allie Therin

    Once a Rogue by Allie Therin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Once a Rogue by Allie Therin will be available Aug 2023 from Carina...
  • When You Call My Name by Tucker Shaw

    When You Call My Name by Tucker Shaw

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tucker Shaw’s When You Call My Name is a heartrending novel about two gay teens coming of age in New York City in 1990 at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Named "this summer's most powerful LGBTQ+ novel" by GAY TIMES, this book is perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Mary H. K. Choi.Film fanatic Adam is seventeen and being asked out on his first date—and the guy is cute...
  • The Reigning and the Rule by Calia Read

    The Reigning and the Rule by Calia Read

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Étienne Lacroix and I had a fire I thought would never die. Our love was timeless. An irreversible decision sent me back to the present day with a family I barely recognize, but I am determined to find a way back to Étienne. I can survive time. But I can’t survive life without him. Time bends to no one’s demands, so I must fight with everything I have to return to the past...
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    age-gap  steamy  20th-century  adult  alpha-mc  angst  audiobook  book
  • Ziggy, Stardust and Me by James Brandon

    Ziggy, Stardust and Me by James Brandon

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    In this tender-hearted debut, set against the tumultuous backdrop of life in 1973, when homosexuality is still considered a mental illness, two boys defy all the odds and fall in love. Now in paperback. The year is 1973. The Watergate hearings are in full swing. The Vietnam War is still raging. And homosexuality is still officially considered a mental illness...
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    lgbtq  mlm  20th-century  abuse  audiobook  book  coming-of-age  drama
  • Think of England by K.J. Charles

    Think of England by K.J. Charles

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Lie back and think of England... England, 1904. Two years ago, Captain Archie Curtis lost his friends, fingers, and future to a terrible military accident. Alone, purposeless and angry, Curtis is determined to discover if he and his comrades were the victims of fate, or of sabotage...
  • The Persian Boy by Mary Renault

    The Persian Boy by Mary Renault

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    “It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior.”–The Atlantic MonthlyThe Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander’s life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas...
  • Wingmen by Ensan Case

    Wingmen by Ensan Case

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jack Hardigan's Hellcat fighter squadron blew the Japanese Zekes out of the blazing Pacific skies. But a more subtle kind of hell was brewing in his feelings for rookie pilot Fred Trusteau...
  • Ruby by Kirsten Osbourne

    Ruby by Kirsten Osbourne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Eighteen year old Ruby has known for years that she would eventually marry her childhood sweetheart. When she's forced to move to Texas, it throws a kink in her plans, but she still knows that David will send for her, and they'll marry. After a year of living in Texas she receives a letter changing her whole world...
  • Hidden Away by J.W. Kilhey

    Hidden Away by J.W. Kilhey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “No man and no force can abolish memory.” John Oakes and Kurt Fournier are living proof of the truth behind those words. Since the horrors of the Second World War, John and Kurt have been trudging through existence, bleeding from wounds that have never healed...
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    lgbtq  mlm  20th-century  abuse  action-adventure  adult  angst  book
  • Naughty Earls Need Love Too by Merry Farmer

    Naughty Earls Need Love Too by Merry Farmer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Maeve Sperrin considers herself a modern woman, but she’s not ready to abandon the rules of society yet. She is determined to marry well and be a good and loyal wife. Her best friend since childhood, Alice Woodmont, has similar aims but far wickeder ideas about how to achieve them...
  • All the Single Viscounts by Merry Farmer

    All the Single Viscounts by Merry Farmer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Miss Erica Joyce is missing something. Her whole life, she has believed that a woman should be meek, modest, and dedicated to domesticity, especially when she is the daughter of a parson. But she had always dreamed of breaking out of her quiet, dutiful life and doing something truly wicked.Enter the dragon..
  • The Unwanted Bride And Her Desolate Suitor by Florence Linnington

    The Unwanted Bride And Her Desolate Suitor by Florence Linnington

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mail order brides don’t expect to find love… but sometimes they get lucky. Mary Jean has a secret. She’s been in love with Jasper since she was thirteen. Too bad he was twenty-four Too bad he never gave her the time of day. Their age difference never mattered. At least not to her. Especially when she saw him risk his life for their neighbor just to have justice served...
  • Burning Season by Rachel Ember

    Burning Season by Rachel Ember

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The year is 1972. Dylan Chase is nineteen, and most days he’s lucky enough to ride a tough bronc, have a beer with his friends, and maybe even sleep under the stars on his family’s third-generation cattle ranch. Dylan’s life would be perfect if it weren’t for his forbidden itch. An itch he’s only scratched once… with Bo, a hitchhiker he never thought he’d see again...
  • Alec by William di Canzio

    Alec by William di Canzio

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    William di Canzio's Alec, inspired by Maurice, E. M. Forster's secret novel of a happy same-sex love affair, tells the story of Alec Scudder, the gamekeeper Maurice Hall falls in love with in Forster's classic, published only after the author's death.Di Canzio follows their story past the end of Maurice to the front lines of battle in World War I and beyond...
  • The Bells of Times Square by Amy Lane

    The Bells of Times Square by Amy Lane

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Every New Year’s Eve since 1946, Nate Meyer has ventured alone to Times Square to listen for the ghostly church bells he and his long-lost wartime lover vowed to hear together. This year, however, his grandson Blaine is pushing Nate through the Manhattan streets, revealing his secrets to his silent, stroke-stricken grandfather...
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    lgbtq  mlm  steamy  20th-century  action-adventure  adult  angst  book
  • Lady Gouldian by Calia Read

    Lady Gouldian by Calia Read

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I was just eight-years-old, looking up at the clouds, when Asa Calhoun became my one true love. He was my brother’s best friend. He was stoic and solemn, and always believed everything in life had to be perfect. But I saw past his eccentric mannerisms. I found him fascinating. I was seventeen when I had my debutante ball. Throughout the years, there was a gradual shift between us...
  • Honeytrap by Aster Glenn Gray

    Honeytrap by Aster Glenn Gray

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet and an American agent fall in love.Soviet agent Gennady Matskevich is thrilled when he's assigned to work with American FBI agent Daniel Hawthorne. There’s just one catch: Gennady’s abusive boss wants him to honeytrap his American partner...
  • Unhinge the Universe by Aleksandr Voinov, L.A. Witt

    Unhinge the Universe by Aleksandr Voinov, L.A. Witt

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Give me one fixed point and a long enough lever, and I'll unhinge the universe. — ArchimedesDecember 1944 – The Battle of the BulgeSS Lieutenant Hagen Friedrichs is the sole survivor of a party sent to retrieve his brother—and the highly sensitive information he’s carrying—from behind enemy lines. But his daring rescue attempt fails, and Hagen becomes the prisoner...
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    lgbtq  mlm  steamy  20th-century  abuse  action-adventure  adult  angst
  • The Carnivorous Lamb by Agustín Gómez Arcos, William Rodarmor

    The Carnivorous Lamb by Agustín Gómez Arcos, William Rodarmor

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The latest in the Little Sister’s Classics series resurrecting gay and lesbian literary gems: a viciously funny, shocking yet ultimately moving 1975 novel, an allegory of Franco’s Spain, about a young gay man (the self-described “carnivorous lamb”) coming of age with a mother who despises him, a father who ignores him, and a brother who loves him...
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    lgbtq  mlm  steamy  20th-century  adult  book  classics  family
  • Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots by Cat Sebastian

    Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots by Cat Sebastian

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New York City, 1973Daniel Cabot doesn’t really know what he’s doing with his life. He’s lost faith in himself, his future, and maybe the world. The only things he knows that he cares about are the garden in the empty lot next to his crumbling East Village apartment building and his best friend.Alex Savchenko has always known that he’s…difficult. Prickly, maybe, if you’re feeling generous...
  • Whistling in the Dark by Tamara Allen

    Whistling in the Dark by Tamara Allen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    New York, 1919. His career as a concert pianist ended by a war injury, Sutton Albright returns to college, only to be expelled after an affair with a teacher. Unable to face his family, he heads to New York with no plans and little money–only a desire to call his life his own.Jack Bailey’s life has changed as well...
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    lgbtq  mlm  20th-century  adult  audiobook  book  crime  family
  • Skybound by Aleksandr Voinov

    Skybound by Aleksandr Voinov

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Germany, 1945. The Third Reich is on its knees as Allied forces bomb Berlin to break the last resistance. Yet on an airfield near Berlin, the battle is far from over for a young mechanic, Felix, who’s attached to a squadron of fighter pilots. He’s especially attached to fighter ace Baldur Vogt, a man he admires and secretly loves...
  • Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman

    Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 77 ratings
    A New York Times BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Los Angeles Times BestsellerA Vulture Book Club PickAn Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our TimeAndré Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera...
  • The Ruin of a Rake by Cat Sebastian

    The Ruin of a Rake by Cat Sebastian

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Rogue. Libertine. Rake. Lord Courtenay has been called many things and has never much cared. But after the publication of a salacious novel supposedly based on his exploits, he finds himself shunned from society. Unable to see his nephew, he is willing to do anything to improve his reputation, even if that means spending time with the most proper man in London...
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    lgbtq  mlm  steamy  20th-century  adult  angst  audiobook  bisexuality
  • A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale

    A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair do little to shake the foundations of his muted existence - until the shock of discovery and the threat of arrest cost him everything. Forced to abandon his wife and child, Harry signs up for emigration to the newly colonised Canadian prairies...
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    lgbtq  mlm  20th-century  adult  audiobook  book  colonization  drama
  • Maurice by E.M. Forster

    Maurice by E.M. Forster

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Maurice is heartbroken over unrequited love, which opened his heart and mind to his own sexual identity. In order to be true to himself, he goes against the grain of society’s often unspoken rules of class, wealth, and politics.Forster understood that his homage to same-sex love, if published when he completed it in 1914, would probably end his career...
  • The Last Kiss by Sally Malcolm

    The Last Kiss by Sally Malcolm

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A tender and triumphant story of forbidden love in the aftermath of warWhen Captain Ashleigh Arthur Dalton went to war in 1914, he never expected to fall in love. Yet over three long years at the front, his dashing batman, Private West, became his reason for fighting—and his reason for living.But Ash’s war ends in catastrophe...
  • Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling

    Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    When young Alec of Kerry is taken prisoner for a crime he didn’t commit, he is certain that his life is at an end. But one thing he never expected was his cellmate. Spy, rogue, thief, and noble, Seregil of Rhiminee is many things–none of them predictable. And when he offers to take on Alec as his apprentice, things may never be the same for either of them...
  • The Holly Groweth Green by Amy Rae Durreson

    The Holly Groweth Green by Amy Rae Durreson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s Christmas 1946 and wounded doctor Laurence is struggling to find a way to live during peacetime. Lost in the Hampshire countryside on a snowy Christmas Eve, Laurence stumbles across lonely Mistletoe Cottage and its owner: Avery. Avery is bright and beautiful, welcoming Laurence to his home with warmth and joy. But Laurence can’t stay forever, and Avery’s secrets mean he can never leave...
  • Broken Blades by Aleksandr Voinov, L.A. Witt

    Broken Blades by Aleksandr Voinov, L.A. Witt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rainbow Award Winner 2016 “Best Gay Book” They only had one night together—a stolen interlude at the 1936 Olympics. After Mark Driscoll challenged Armin Truchsess von Kardenberg to a good-natured fencing match, there was no resisting each other...
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    lgbtq  mlm  20th-century  action-adventure  adult  athlete  book  dark
  • Nightingale by Aleksandr Voinov

    Nightingale by Aleksandr Voinov

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In Nazi-occupied Paris, most Frenchmen tread warily, but gay nightclub singer Yves Lacroix puts himself in the spotlight with every performance. As a veteran of France’s doomed defense, a survivor of a prison camp, and a “degenerate,” he knows he’s a target. His comic stage persona disguises a shamed, angry heart and gut-wrenching fear for a sister embedded in the Resistance...
  • A Country of Old Men by Joseph Hansen

    A Country of Old Men by Joseph Hansen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hansen offers the final novel of his epic mystery series--an intricately-plotted story of action, irony, and twists. Dave Brandstetter comes to the aid of an old friend and ends up investigating a case that involves child abuse, drugs, AIDS, and victimization of the elderly...
  • Tobias by Emma Lang

    Tobias by Emma Lang

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A broken man. A woman who needs a hero. A love that should never have been.Rebecca Graham always knew she was to marry a hero and leave home in blissful happiness. She chose that man when she was seventeen. Unfortunately, her family hated him. In a fury over being swindled by someone else, Tobias burned down the Circle Eight, her family's ranch...
  • Alice & Jean by Lily Hammond

    Alice & Jean by Lily Hammond

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Every lover has her story, and every town has its secrets. It’s 1946 in New Zealand, and Alice Holden has fallen for the woman delivering her milk every morning...
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