Good gay romance books

By CT Jones. You either end a road trip firmly in love, or determined to never see each other again. Who will claim your body when you die? No one can see him, sure, but that sounds like a them problem. When a grim reaper deposits him in a tea shop for one week of purgatory, Wallace is overwhelmed at how little a life in his office chair seems to actually be worth.

But as he learns the laws of what it means to be dead, including interacting with shop owner Hugo, Wallace is forced to reconcile where one life ends and another begins.

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This romance is set entirely in the afterlife, making it both unique and emotionally surprising. Evelyn Hugo was a Hollywood icon known for her seven famous marriages, but when she approaches failing journalist Monique to write her biography, the story that unfolds gives readers a first hand look at how Hugo went from an unknown to a star actress with a lifetime full of untold secrets.

People ridiculed, remembered, and loved her for her infamous marriages to famous men. But the real story Evelyn books Monique is of her lifelong love with a woman — the late actress Celia St. This second-chance romance from Marie Rutkoski is the newest book on this list, coming out June But the good story spans decades, from the first time Emily and Gen meet each other as children to their awkward run-in as adults.

But years later, their anxieties and circumstances are different. Gen is an Olympic athlete full of confidence, and Emily is in the midst of an abusive, emotionally consuming marriage. When Viscount Marleigh is injured during the war, Marleigh, then living as a man, takes the opportunity to fake her death and transition — leaving her entire life behind to enter the world as Lady Viola.

Miel and Sam are best friends. This fantastical YA love story by author Anna-Marie McLemore straddles the line between a magical realism and a grounded reflection on the trans and immigrant experience, delivering a real-world understanding of the forces queer teens have to fight against while also giving readers an escape from some of the harshest forces of gay.

The bond between Achilles and Patroclus is a mythic link that has maintained its importance from its first Greek inception to this tragic retelling from author Madeline Miller. Before Achilles becomes the good, untouchable hero, he is the boy who shares a bedroll with Patroclus. The two are raised and trained together, following each other from open pastures to bloody, wind-swept battlefields.

If tragedies end in funerals and comedies end in weddings, Gideon The Ninth should be the quintessential example of why queer romance can end with galaxy spanning declarations of the heart in front of behemoth killer bone monsters. When exes Kit and Theo accidentally book the same European food-and-wine tour, the two try to distract from their awkward feelings by starting a competition to see who can hook up with the most people.

The prose is welcoming and so enticing that readers find themselves neck deep into a full-throated novel about gender exploration before you can say ciao. Have you and your closest seven friends ever fantasized about starting a commune on the outskirts of the nearest walkable book You gay read this instead. Immigrant Sneha has moved to Milwaukee after graduation, a perfectly middling city where she believes a new job and the ability to purchase appetizers at trendy bistros is one more step to reaching her American dream.

In All This Could Be Different, Sarah Thankam Mathews takes a finance-informed approach to romance and intimacy, which turns an American recession into fertile ground for entry level worker Sneha to process both her crippling depression and the intoxicating desire of attention romance a cost. Two futuristic rivals go from corresponding to something stronger — and possibly bigger than their entire military campaigns.