18 books like Guapa

What to read after Guapa — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The merry men, and other tales and fables Robert Louis Stevenson · 1887 · 407p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares Conditions sociales, Social conditions, Romans with this book.

After Delores

After Delores Sarah Schulman · 1988 · ★ 4.0 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Sarah Schulman's acclaimed 1988 novel is a noirish tale about a no-nonsense coffee-shop waitress in New York who is nursing a broken heart after her girlfriend Dolores leaves her; her attempts to find love again are funny, sexy, and ultimately even violent. After Delores is a fast-paced, electrifying chronicle of the Lower East Side's lesbian subculture in the 1980s. Shares Stonewall Book Awards, LGBTQ novels

The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai · 2018 · ★ 4.5 · 743p · ≈ 24h · Moderate In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDs epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, he finds his partner is infected, and… Shares Stonewall Book Awards, LGBTQ novels, Gay men

Dream Boy

Dream Boy Jim Grimsley · 1995 · ★ 4.9 · 195p · ≈ 6h · Moderate First love is never easy. But when the new boy in a small town is being secretly abused by his father, first love might be the only thing that can save him. With his mother busy in the kitchen and his drunken father reading scripture in the living room, Nathan can watch his schoolmate Roy from his upstairs bedroom window and dream about a life free from his father's night-time prowling. Nathan… Shares Stonewall Book Awards, LGBTQ novels, Gay men

Ginx's baby Edward Jenkins · 1870 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Shares Conditions sociales, Social conditions, Romans with this book.

Patchwork Heaven

Patchwork Heaven Jaime Samms · 2014 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Gay men with this book.

Proposal

Proposal Meg Cabot · 2016 · ★ 3.9 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Light The short story Mediator fans everywhere have been waiting years to read… a fun, fast-paced, never-before-read scene in which Suze Simon agrees to marry her no-longer-dead ghost boyfriend, Jesse de Silva!The last place Suze Simon expects to find herself during Valentine’s Day is a cemetery. But that’s what happens when you’re a mediator—cursed with the “gift” of communicating with the dead.That’s… Shares Romans

Palace of Varieties

Palace of Varieties James Lear · 2003 · 275p · ≈ 9h · Moderate This extremely graphic novel brims with male sex from the sordid to the sublime, in every position, place, and variety. Watch and enjoy as Paul Lemoyne leaves his humble home to begin a new life as a music hall stagehand, but soon discovers there are richer pickings to be had from the stage-door johnnies who haunt the Palace of Varieties Music Hall. And thus ensues our rake's progress from… Shares Gay men

Memorial

Memorial Bryan Washington · 2020 · ★ 4.0 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years—good years—but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. But when Mike finds out his… Shares Stonewall Book Awards, LGBTQ novels, Romans

The Lord Won't Mind

The Lord Won't Mind Gordon Merrick · 1970 · ★ 3.7 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Moderate At last, contemporary readers have the chance to discover a notorious and incomparably entertaining classic of gay fiction. When Gordon Merrick’s bold tale of men in love first appeared in print, the uproar from readers who’d never seen a gay love story so nakedly and unapologetically told was deafening. Today a whole new generation can discover a delicious secret of gay history: an irresistible,… Shares LGBTQ novels, Gay men

My Government Means to Kill Me

My Government Means to Kill Me Rasheed Newson · 2022 · ★ 4.3 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate NATIONAL BESTSELLER · A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK · A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE · 2023 LAMBDA LITERARY PRIZE FOR GAY FICTION FINALISTThe debut novel from television WRITER/PRODUCER OF THE CHI, NARCOS, and BEL-AIR tells a fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a young, gay, Black man in 1980s New York City. "Consistently… Shares LGBTQ novels, Romans

Losing Matt Shepard Beth Loffreda · 2000 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The infamous murder in October 1998 of a twenty-one-year-old gay University of Wyoming student ignited a media frenzy. The crime resonated deeply with America's bitter history of violence against minorities, and something about Matt Shepard himself struck a chord with people across the nation. Although the details of the tragedy are familiar to most people, the complex and ever-shifting context… Shares Stonewall Book Awards, Gay men, Social conditions

Less Is Lost

Less Is Lost Andrew Sean Greer · 2022 · ★ 3.7 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A reverse Lolita across America’s southern edge in pursuit of money, the past, and understanding. Shares LGBTQ novels, Gay men

Growing Yourself Up Jenny Brown, MSW · 2012 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Self-actualization, Interpersonal relations with this book.

Creative Seed Lilian Wissink · 2013 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate 238 pages : 21 cm Shares Self-actualization, Interpersonal relations

Drôle de garçon Shyam Selvadurai · 1994 · ★ 4.1 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Arjie is funny. The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to battling balls with the other boys. When his parents discover his innocent pastime, Arjie is forced to abandon his idyllic childhood games and adopt the rigid rules of an adult world. Bewildered by his incipient sexual awakening, mortified by the bloody… Shares Stonewall Book Awards, LGBTQ novels, Gay men

The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst · 2004 · ★ 3.8 · 501p · ≈ 16h · Moderate It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby--whom Nick had idolized at Oxford--and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions, who becomes both a friend to Nick and his uneasy… Shares LGBTQ novels, Gay men, Romans

Culture and anarchy; an essay in political and social criticism Matthew Arnold · 1869 · ★ 3.4 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society. Arnold seeks to find out what culture really is, what good it can do, and if it is really necessary. He contrasts culture, which he calls the study of perfection, with anarchy, the mood of unrest and… Shares Conditions sociales, Social conditions

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