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  • A Kingdom by the Sea by Anna Green

    A Kingdom by the Sea by Anna Green

    Rated: 4.84 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 21 ratings
    The final volume of The Heart Rate of a Mouse trilogy. In November 1978, over a year has passed since music icon Ryan Ross announced his retirement from the public eye. He is far from being forgotten, however, as his musical influence can be heard whenever Brendon Roscoe starts singing on the radio. As the frontman of the upcoming band His Side, Brendon was famously discovered by Ross...
  • Ninety One Whiskey by komodobits

    Ninety One Whiskey by komodobits

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Supernatural Fanfic - Dean/Castiel. In the spring of 1944, the 104th Medical Battalion of the United States Army is disbanded, and its men reassigned to various infantry companies in preparation for their invasion of occupied France...
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  • Rough Pages by Lev A.C. Rosen

    Rough Pages by Lev A.C. Rosen

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 17 ratings
    Private Detective Evander "Andy" Mills has been drawn back to the Lavender House estate for a missing person case. Pat, the family butler, has been volunteering for a book service, one that specializes in mailing queer books to a carefully guarded list of subscribers...
  • The Death of Friends by Michael Nava

    The Death of Friends by Michael Nava

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Winner of six Lambda Literary awards, the Henry Rios mystery series is iconic. Originally published during the darkest years of the AIDS epidemic in the gay community, The Death of Friends received extraordinary praise both as a mystery and an eloquent work of witness.
  • The Bequest by Joanna Chambers

    The Bequest by Joanna Chambers

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    David Lauriston and Lord Murdo Balfour have been living happily together for three years at the Laverock estate in Perthshire. But when some unexpected news arrives, Murdo must confront old demons he thought he’d put behind him forever. This story will be exclusively available to my newsletter...
  • 夜畫帳 第三卷 by Byeonduck

    夜畫帳 第三卷 by Byeonduck

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 15 ratings
    白羅謙一直以為自己是不得已才留在尹府。. 為了先生的官途,他才重拾春宮畫筆,. 甚至不惜委身尹勝浩,付出比他想像更多的代價。. 可被他寄託了所有的先生,卻似乎並不這麼想。. 比起對他呼來喚去動手動腳的尹少爺,. 先生那不經意間流露出的輕視,更傷人。. 他在尹勝浩帶給他的肉體歡愉之中漸漸沉淪,. 本以為這一切的本質都是傷害,. 可當隱隱感受到尹勝浩對他流露出的在意與占有慾時,. 少年越發感到迷惘……. 本書特色. ※韓國話題性耽美漫畫第三卷堂堂登場!. ※韓國Lezhin Comics正式授權,全球首次集結成冊。. ※全系列好評不斷,占據各大書店排行榜!. 他們是地位懸殊的貴族與畫匠,. 卻在一次又一次的交歡中,越來越靠近。.
  • Rag and Bone by Michael Nava

    Rag and Bone by Michael Nava

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One of the most highly acclaimed writers in the mystery genre "explores new emotional depths" in this last Henry Rios novel. The gay Mexican-American attorney, after the loss of his lover, must face his own mortality while recovering from a heart attack-and reach out to a family he didn't know he had...
  • A Mean Season by Marshall Thornton

    A Mean Season by Marshall Thornton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dom Reilly is back. In this follow up to Year of the Rat, Dom helps clear three men wrongly convicted of rape while also following a pet project—the twenty-year-old case of a man accused of killing his lover in 1976. Meanwhile, Dom gets wind that someone is looking for him. A private detective from Chicago...
  • Until the End of Time by Nicky James

    Until the End of Time by Nicky James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Being a gay man in 1827, was not only frowned upon in England, but punishable by death. Magistrate Simon Stockley would know. He’d convicted men in his courtroom and sentenced them himself. Every time, it left a vile taste in his mouth because Simon was no different than the men whose lives he claimed...
  • After Being Forced to Marry the Evil Star General by 顾三跃

    After Being Forced to Marry the Evil Star General by 顾三跃

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Zhao Yelan was born as a criminal s*ave and was rescued by the Third Prince. After years of painstaking efforts to put him on the throne, Zhao Yelan became a sycophantic minister whom everyone detested, but he was actually given a marriage by that person to general Yan Mingting, the lone star of Tiansha. The general caused the death of his own father, his mother, his wife, and his dog...
  • Unspeakable Acts by Jackson Marsh

    Unspeakable Acts by Jackson Marsh

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    "Death will come da capo, suddenly silent, and you will not hear your final applause. Fail us, and you die. ". Blackmail, a death threat and an opera. The Clearwater Foundation is to be launched with a charity gala at the City Opera House where Archer's old friend, Cadwell Roxton, is to star. But Roxton has a dark secret...
    Categorized as:
    queer  historical  mystery  m-m  victorian  length-medium
  • Now and Then by William Corlett

    Now and Then by William Corlett

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Now. Christopher Metcalfe returns to his family home in Kent after the death of his father. Sorting through a box of memorabilia from his days at public school, Chris is suddenly confronted by the face that has haunted him for thirty years...
  • Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli

    Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Soon to be a major film adaptation by Luca Guadagnino, Separate Rooms is a masterpiece of Italian literature, and a heartbreaking portrait of love, grief, and the daily realities of being a gay man in 1980s Europe. Thomas, a young German musician, is dying. His older boyfriend, a renowned Italian writer named Leo, finds it impossible to watch the slow and inevitable demise of his lover...
  • The Road to Silver Plume by Tamara Allen

    The Road to Silver Plume by Tamara Allen

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Secret Service operative Emlyn Strickland may be new to field work, but his talent for identifying counterfeit bank notes, honed over ten years at the Treasury, has given Sing Sing’s population a respectable boost...
  • Till Death Do Us Part by Tangstory

    Till Death Do Us Part by Tangstory

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Set in early-20th century China, this story takes off in the port city of Tientsin (Tianjin) that is divided into lands called concessions and owned by several foreign powers. Shen Liangsheng is a charismatic and cunning playboy, a son of a rich businessman, who has profits as his top priority...
    Categorized as:
    queer  historical  m-m  war  contemporary  length-medium
  • How Long Has This Been Going On? by Ethan Mordden

    How Long Has This Been Going On? by Ethan Mordden

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    An epic novel depicting the changing landscape of gay life in modern America--beginning in 1949 and moving to the present day. Among the many characters who populate this dazzling trip are a policeman who becomes a legendary porn star, an acid-tongued lesbian bar owner, and a drag queen who, readers eventually learn, is the novel's true narrator.
  • Help Wanted by Marshall Thornton

    Help Wanted by Marshall Thornton

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    In the sixth Pinx Video Mystery, Noah is thrilled that it's been months and months since he's been involved in a murder. .. but then, the boys learn that Javier O'Shea (tall, dark and LAPD) has been arrested for theft of evidence. As the bodies pile up, they learn that Javier may, or may not, have run afoul of rogue cops at the notoriously corrupt Rampart Station...
    Categorized as:
    queer  mystery  humor  m-m  historical  audiobook
  • Cairo Malachi and the Adventure of the Silver Whistle by Samantha SoRelle

    Cairo Malachi and the Adventure of the Silver Whistle by Samantha SoRelle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “The first time I met the love of my life, he died in my arms. ”. Cairo Malachi, Conduit to the Spirits, is a liar, a thief, and a fraud. He may be building a reputation as one of the most fashionable mediums in London, but he doesn’t even believe in ghosts and has certainly never conjured one...
    Categorized as:
    queer  victorian  historical  m-m  length-short
  • Just a Little Seduction by Merry Farmer

    Just a Little Seduction by Merry Farmer

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    David Wirth has made it his life’s work to fight for the rights of those who cannot defend themselves and to navigate England’s choppy legal waters for fellow members of The Brotherhood. Tracking down the three villainous noblemen, including a powerful duke, who have masterminded a child kidnapping ring promises to be the pinnacle of his career seeking justice for the helpless...
    Categorized as:
    queer  victorian  historical  m-m  length-medium
  • Just a Little Madness by Merry Farmer

    Just a Little Madness by Merry Farmer

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Opposites attract and sparks fly, but can they be contained? Member of Parliament, Edward Archibald, lives in constant fear of being discovered as a gay man and having his life ruined because of it. He has avoided scandal in every way possible. .. until his brother runs off with a married duchess and kidnaps Lord Selby's son and heir...
  • Just a Little Mischief by Merry Farmer

    Just a Little Mischief by Merry Farmer

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Valet Xavier Lawrence hasn’t seen much of the world. So when his employer, the Duke of Selby, takes him along on a transatlantic voyage in pursuit of his missing son and heir, Xavier is thrilled with the opportunity. But the excitement over his first taste of salt air and the sea is nothing to the thrill of an opportunity for a secret affair...
    Categorized as:
    queer  victorian  historical  m-m  length-short
  • Just a Little Rivalry by Merry Farmer

    Just a Little Rivalry by Merry Farmer

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Solicitor John Dandie will go to the ends of the Earth for his friends and his clients. And in the case of Lord Blake Williamson, Duke of Selby, in the search for his missing son, the ends of the Earth just happen to be Long Island, New York. With Lady Selby finally cornered at her father’s seaside mansion, convincing the woman to return Lord Stanley should be child’s play...
    Categorized as:
    queer  victorian  historical  m-m  length-short
  • Middle Ground by Ursula Zilinsky

    Middle Ground by Ursula Zilinsky

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 5 ratings
    Two males meet in a Nazi labour camp: half-Jewish teenager Tyl von Pankow, saved from the gas-chambers by the influence of his Prussian grandfather, and Johannes von Svestrom, war-wounded veteran of the Afrika Korps, now sentenced by Hitler to a terrible command...
  • Full Circle by Michael Thomas Ford

    Full Circle by Michael Thomas Ford

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    History professor Ned Brummel is living happily with his partner of twelve years in small-town Maine when he receives a phone call from his estranged friend--Jack--telling him that another friend--Andy--is very ill and possibly near death...
  • The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault

    The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Set in Greece of the 4th century BCE, The Mask of Apollo the actor Nikeratos. Thru the eyes of this warm, sympathetic & living character we experience the war-weary, self-searching world of his time. Always on his travels Niko, the tragedian, takes with him an antique mask of Apollo, a relic of the theater's golden age, which from being his mascot becomes by degrees his artistic conscience...
  • Forever Hold His Peace by Rebecca Cohen

    Forever Hold His Peace by Rebecca Cohen

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Sebastian and Anthony face an uncertain future together when accusations of witchcraft and a traitor in their midst threaten everything they’ve fought for. Playing the role of his twin sister Bronwyn, the wife of Anthony Redbourn, Earl of Crofton, is not an easy task, but Sebastian does it willing for them to be together...
    Categorized as:
    queer  historical  m-m  medieval  length-short
  • Eleventh Hour by Elin Gregory

    Eleventh Hour by Elin Gregory

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Borrowed from the Secret Intelligence Service cipher department to assist Briers Allerdale - a field agent returning to 1920s London with news of a dangerous anarchist plot - Miles Siward moves into a 'couples only' boarding house, posing as Allerdale’s 'wife'...
  • Counterpoint: Dylan's Story by Ruth Sims

    Counterpoint: Dylan's Story by Ruth Sims

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    At eighteen Dylan Rutledge has one music. He believes his destiny is to be the greatest composer of the rapidly approaching twentieth century. Only Laurence Northcliff, a young history master at The Venerable Bede School for Young Gentlemen, believes in Dylan’s talent and encourages his dream, not realizing Dylan is in love with him...
  • Gemini by Michel Tournier

    Gemini by Michel Tournier

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jean and Paul are identical twins. Outsiders, even their parents, cannot tell them apart, and call them Jean-Paul. The mysterious bond between them excludes all others; they speak their own language; they are one perfectly harmonious unit; they are, in all innocence, lovers. For Paul, this unity is paradise, but as they grow up Jean rebels against it...
    Categorized as:
    queer  m-m  20th century  incest  historical  length-long
  • Games of Rome by J.P. Kenwood

    Games of Rome by J.P. Kenwood

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Second Place in the 2016 Rainbow Awards, Best Gay Historical. In this sequel to Dominus, Gaius Fabius Rufus, the victorious general of Rome’s brutal Dacian Wars, finds his loyalties and his affections pulled in different directions...
  • The Heirs of Fortune by Heather Domin

    The Heirs of Fortune by Heather Domin

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Six months after the events of Soldier of Raetia, the 24th is invited on campaign with Rome's most famous general — Drusus Germanicus, the stepson of Augustus who will stop at nothing to subjugate the north...
  • Just a Little Gamble by Merry Farmer

    Just a Little Gamble by Merry Farmer

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Everything that makes them opposites is what attracts them to each other…. Bad boy composer Samuel Percy is the talk of London…but only because high society cannot believe a black man could reach such prestigious heights in the artistic world. His quest to prove himself is complicated by his sister—known as The Black Widow—and her mischievous schemes...
  • If It Ain't Love by Tamara Allen

    If It Ain't Love by Tamara Allen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In the darkest days of the Great Depression, New York Times reporter Whit Stoddard has lost the heart to do his job and lives a lonely hand-to-mouth existence with little hope of recovery, until he meets Peter, a man in even greater need of new hope.
    Categorized as:
    queer  historical  m-m  length-novella
  • Duty to the Crown by Rebecca Cohen

    Duty to the Crown by Rebecca Cohen

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sebastian and Anthony will do their duty, but they will do everything not to sacrifice their love. Sebastian Hewel endures many things to maintain his role of Bronwyn, the wife of Anthony Redbourn, Earl of Crofton, so he and Anthony can be together. But when Queen Elizabeth demands a favour of Anthony, Sebastian’s world is in danger of being fractured beyond repair...
  • Comfort and Joy by Jim Grimsley

    Comfort and Joy by Jim Grimsley

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Ford McKinney leads a charmed life: he's a young doctor possessing good looks, good breeding, and money. He comes from an old Savannah family where his parents, attentive to his future, focus their energies on finding their son--their golden boy--a girl to marry...
  • On a Lee Shore by Elin Gregory

    On a Lee Shore by Elin Gregory

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “Give me a reason to let you live…”. Beached after losing his ship and crew, and with England finally at peace, Lt Christopher Penrose will take whatever work he can get. A valet? Why not? Escorting an elderly diplomat to the Leeward Islands seems like an easy job, but when their ship is boarded by pirates, Kit’s world is turned upside down...
  • People Like Us by Ruby Moone

    People Like Us by Ruby Moone

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Arthur Fitch clawed his way out of the violence and poverty of the slums of London to become a valet to the aristocracy. His ambition to secure a higher position led him to a disastrous appointment with a cold, brutal man, and when things come to a head, Arthur is forced to flee into a snowstorm to find safety. Joseph Wilkinson is the Winsford Green blacksmith...
  • The Second Footman by Jasper Barry

    The Second Footman by Jasper Barry

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Nineteen year-old Max is the duchesse de Claireville's second footman, but he does not intend to endure the indignities of service for long. He has a plan – to find an aristocratic patron who will become his unwitting accomplice in an audacious fraud. The novel explores the age-old saying:'Be true to yourself. ' But to which self? And what is 'truth'?
  • The Little Matchboy by Jackie North

    The Little Matchboy by Jackie North

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One is a Chicago hoodlum. The other is a young man with an abusive father. One is not looking for love. The other is lost in a swirl of snow and despair and needs to be found. Sean is in Harlin to visit a friend and is uncomfortable with the small town vibe. His plan is to head back to Chicago asap, but after he stops a father from beating his son, the young man catches his heart...
    Categorized as:
    queer  m-m  length-short  historical  usa  illinois
  • Bodies of Men by Nigel Featherstone

    Bodies of Men by Nigel Featherstone

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There is nothing more important than love and refuge. Egypt, 1941. Only hours after disembarking in Alexandria, William Marsh, an Australian corporal at twenty-one, is face down in the sand, caught in a stoush with the Italian enemy. He is saved by James Kelly, a childhood friend from Sydney and the last person he expected to see. But where William escapes unharmed, not all are so fortunate...
    Categorized as:
    queer  historical  military  m-m  length-medium  audiobook
  • Spontaneous Combustion by David B. Feinberg

    Spontaneous Combustion by David B. Feinberg

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "A funny, often moving book about being single, Jewish, gay, and HIV-positive . . . both urgent and convincing. "--The New York Times Book Review. In this sequel to David Feinberg's national bestseller Eighty-Sixed, B. J. Rosenthal navigates life with an HIV-positive diagnosis amidst the "constant tide of deaths" in New York City during the AIDS crisis.
    Categorized as:
    queer  m-m  humor  20th century  historical  length-short
  • A Rose By Any Other Name by Charlie Cochet

    A Rose By Any Other Name by Charlie Cochet

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Nights in the roaring city remind bright young things that life’s too short to take for granted. Tucked away in Times Square hides the Pantheon: a secret cabaret for wealthy gay men. Pretty young men in elaborate costumes and rouged lips are eager to please, and the champagne flows all night long. It’s a world of frivolity, fantasy, and debauchery...
  • Invitation to the Dance by Tamara Allen

    Invitation to the Dance by Tamara Allen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    After trading his tranquil Staten Island existence for a flat in the city and an editorial position at the New York Herald, William Nesmith anticipates as easy and uneventful a transition from bachelorhood to marriage—as soon as he's prepared to ask the vivacious Violet Chapin for her hand...
  • The Ballad of Crow & Sparrow by V.L. Locey

    The Ballad of Crow & Sparrow by V.L. Locey

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Sometimes a man’s biggest blunder can turn into his greatest triumph. Orphaned at fourteen, Crow Poulin now has to hunt and trap the White Mountains of Arizona, as his father had taught him, all alone. It’s a lonely existence, until one morning, while checking his trap line, Crow finds more than a rabbit in a snare. He stumbles across the outlaw Jack Wittington lying half dead in the wilds...
    Categorized as:
    queer  m-m  historical  length-short
  • Comfort and Joy by Joanna Chambers, Josh Lanyon

    Comfort and Joy by Joanna Chambers, Josh Lanyon

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A Holiday anthology. Rest and Be Thankful by Joanna Chambers. Two stormy hearts find peace when feuding neighbors in the Scottish Highlands are trapped by a blizzard. Things haven’t been going well for Cam McMorrow since he moved to Inverbechie. His business is failing, his cottage is falling apart and following his very public argument with café owner Rob Armstrong, he’s become a social outcast...
  • The Boy in the Rain by Stephanie Cowell

    The Boy in the Rain by Stephanie Cowell

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “The Boy in the Rain transports us to another time and place in this powerful, sensual, and lyrical novel that literally took my breath away—the love is so visceral, the pain so deep, the beauty so real, and the danger so palpable! ” ~NYT bestseller, M. J. Rose, author of The Last Tiara...
    Categorized as:
    queer  historical  m-m  length-medium  audiobook
  • Comfort and Joy by Joanna Chambers, Josh Lanyon

    Comfort and Joy by Joanna Chambers, Josh Lanyon

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Holiday anthology. Rest and Be Thankful by Joanna Chambers. Two stormy hearts find peace when feuding neighbors in the Scottish Highlands are trapped by a blizzard. Things haven’t been going well for Cam McMorrow since he moved to Inverbechie. His business is failing, his cottage is falling apart and following his very public argument with café owner Rob Armstrong, he’s become a social outcast...
  • My True Love Gave to Me by Ava March

    My True Love Gave to Me by Ava March

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Alexander Norton loathes the festive season. The revelry of the ton is a reminder of Christmas four years ago, when his first love, Thomas Bennett, broke his heart and fled to New York without a word. So when he encounters Thomas at a holiday ball, Alexander is determined not to let on how much he still hurts. Thomas has returned for one reason only: Alexander...
  • Dash and Dingo: In Search of the Tasmanian Tiger by Catt Ford, Sean Kennedy

    Dash and Dingo: In Search of the Tasmanian Tiger by Catt Ford, Sean Kennedy

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Stodgy British archivist Henry Percival-Smythe slaves away in the dusty basement of Ealing College in 1934, the only bright spot in his life his obsession with a strange Australian mammal, the thylacine. It has been hunted to the edge of extinction, and Henry would love nothing more than to help the rare creature survive. Then a human whirlwind spins through his door...
    Categorized as:
    queer  m-m  historical  mystery  20th century  length-long
  • Once a Gentleman by Eliot Grayson

    Once a Gentleman by Eliot Grayson

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Penniless, friendless, and with nowhere left to turn after his family’s ruin, Kit Hewlett can’t afford any more disasters. When a rakish, too-handsome gentleman—and Kit’s own clumsiness—cause him to lose his position as a bookshop clerk, Kit has no choice but to accept the gentleman’s offer of employment as his secretary...
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