Some Gay Reads 24
Explore 'Some Gay Reads 24'—a curated list of must-read LGBTQ+ books. Discover diverse stories, romance, memoirs, and fiction for every reader's taste.
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Stone Butch Blues
by Leslie Feinberg
Jess Goldberg decides to come out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s and then to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early '70s.
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Myra Breckinridge
by Gore Vidal
Myra's personality is altered by her sex change operation and Myron is transported back through time to the year 1948.
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Wonder Boys
by Michael Chabon
Grady Tripp is a pot-smoking middle aged novelist who has stalled on a 2611 page opus titled Wonder Boys. His student James Leer is a troubled young writer obsessed by Hollywood suicides and at work on his own first novel. Grady's bizarre editor Terry Crabtree and another student, Hannah Green, come together in his wildly comic, moving, and finally profound search for an ending to his book and a purpose to his life.
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No Mercy
by Patrick Califia
This long-awaited collection of short stories by,the world-renowned leather dyke author and,activist combines pornography, science fiction,romance, fantasy, fairy tales, and horror into a,potent cocktail for queer grown-ups who have been,very, very bad and aren't one bit sorry. It's,leather-flavoured fiction without a safe word -,smart, challenging, funny, transgressive, and,hotter than hell. For her fans panting for more,Califia is back on form with a vengeance!
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Vadriel Vail
by Vincent Virga
A sweeping saga of love and danger among the aristocracy of early 19th-century New York, "Vadriel Vail" paints a vivid portrait of the excesses and arrogance of the privileged upper classes while providing a richly detailed and classic gothic tale of romance, secrets, and windswept coastlines. From the heights of glittering society to the depths of poverty in the unimaginably horrific immigrant slums, "Vadriel Vail" is a relentlessly entertaining historical romance of the highest order. Vincent Virga is the author of "Gaywyck" and "A Comfortable Corner." He has researched, edited, and designed picture sections for more than 150 books, including "Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States."
