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10 best books like The Folding Star (Alan Hollinghurst): Frankissstein: A Love Story, A Home at the End of the World, A Boy's Own Story, Lie With Me, Dancer from the Dance, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, While England Sleeps, The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas, Age of Iron, Buddies

Frankissstein: A Love Story
AuthorJeanette Winterson
ISBN1473563259
From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated...
A Home at the End of the World
AuthorMichael Cunningham
ISBN0312424086
From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate,...
A Boy's Own Story
AuthorEdmund White
ISBN0375707409
Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality. The book's unnamed narrator, growing up during the 1950s, is beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless...
Lie With Me
AuthorPhilippe Besson
ISBN1501197878
The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald.

We drive at high speed along back roads,...
Dancer from the Dance
AuthorAndrew Holleran
ISBN0060937068
One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York's emerging gay scene. From Manhattan's Everard...
The Beautiful Room Is Empty
AuthorEdmund White
ISBN0679755403
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 gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving...
While England Sleeps
AuthorDavid Leavitt
ISBN0349109532
Leavitt has earned high praise for his empathetic portrayal of human sexuality and the complexities of intimate relationships. In While England Sleeps, available for the first time in two years, he moves beyond precisely controlled domestic drama to create a historical novel, set against the rise...
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
AuthorPaul Theroux
ISBN0140249796
Award-winning travel writer Paul Theroux invites you aboard The Old Patagonian Express by Train through the Americas; packed with powerful descriptions and portraits of the many colours of humanity, The Old Patagonian Express is an unforgettable read.

A witty sharply observed journey...
Age of Iron
AuthorJ.M. Coetzee
ISBN0140275657
In Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought....
Buddies
AuthorEthan Mordden
ISBN0312010052
"What unites us, all of us, surely is brotherhood, a sense that our friendships are historic, designed to hold Stonewall together," muses on character in Ethan Mordden's Buddies. This need for friendship, for nonerotic affection, for buddies, shines forth as an American obsession from Moby-Dick...
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