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Mrs. Kg search the cy’s hardscrabble streets to fd acplic for a darg heist that will relieve Mayfair’s most opulent hoe of s sparklg treasur. Schemg wh assorted workg women — a seamstrs, an actrs, a street-savvy bswoman — who all dream of somethg more for themselv, Mrs. Kg plans to rob her former employer while they are hostg society’s biggt ball of the season. Hay brgs a lively tempo and an elegant w to this zippy thriller that is also a social mentary on the plight of the powerls. 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When their pric mother, who left her young children to fd a better life for herself the Uned Stat, offers an olive branch, tendg to return home for Grandpa’s funeral, the fay speeds toward a clash on the sands of R’s Copabana Beach durg a rowdy New Year’s Eve party. As fay secrets are exposed, this fiery <a href=" target=_blank>but novel</a> explor how we n damage the people we love the most. (Atria, July 18)</p></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="listicle-rd-T2XETWOCJNCXJGCPUCISZFV3V4-3"><div id="list-headle-T2XETWOCJNCXJGCPUCISZFV3V4-3" tabx="0" class="wpds-c-jKHtLo"><div></div><h3 class="wpds-c-eKlvKd listicle-headle" data-qa="list-headle">‘Speech Team’ by Tim Murphy</h3></div><a href="#sendary-nav" class="skip-lk sr-only sr-only-focable black unrle brad-md pa-lg mb-xs borr-box font-sans-serif font-bold">Return to menu</a><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body grid-tablet-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Wh a healthy dose of Gen X nostalgia, Murphy’s touchg <a href=" target=_blank>novel</a> explor how thgs we are told as children n leave feelg bised as adults. Four iends who were on the speech team at a Massachetts high school the 1980s rennect 25 years later after learng of the suici of another team member who left behd a note mentng a vastatg remark ma by their former ach. Each iend shar a siar wound flicted by the same teacher, who, turns out, liv a retirement muny Sarasota, Fla. The group plans a trip together to see him, hopg to show him how his thoughtls remarks left srs. (Vikg, July 25)</p></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="listicle-rd-APF7BXPSHJGMLB7ZFXPZAXC2L4-4"><div id="list-headle-APF7BXPSHJGMLB7ZFXPZAXC2L4-4" tabx="0" class="wpds-c-jKHtLo"><div></div><h3 class="wpds-c-eKlvKd listicle-headle" data-qa="list-headle">‘Lh Liv’ by J. Vansa Lyon</h3></div><a href="#sendary-nav" class="skip-lk sr-only sr-only-focable black unrle brad-md pa-lg mb-xs borr-box font-sans-serif font-bold">Return to menu</a><div class="article-body grid-body grid-center" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Glory Hopks unexpectedly hered her nt’s storied Harlem brownstone wh s attic full of heirlooms. Appraiser Parkie De Groot is keen to help her unver the agg hoe’s history — and even more enthralled by the stant chemistry she feels wh Glory. While they work together to asss the signifince of the hoe’s history, a long-simmerg relatnship blossoms, and the women nceal personal stggl until their secrets threaten to stroy everythg they have worked to build. Lyon, an art historian and former appraiser, sightfully <a href=" target="_blank">portrays</a> two women who are meant to be together spe themselv. (Roxane Gay, Aug. 1)</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">23 books to read this summer</a></span></p></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="listicle-rd-DQIHTPFEDZGKLHZF6DCU4JSO7I-5"><div id="list-headle-DQIHTPFEDZGKLHZF6DCU4JSO7I-5" tabx="0" class="wpds-c-jKHtLo"><div></div><h3 class="wpds-c-eKlvKd listicle-headle" data-qa="list-headle">‘Pullg the Chart of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnappg,’ by Shane McCrae</h3></div><a href="#sendary-nav" class="skip-lk sr-only sr-only-focable black unrle brad-md pa-lg mb-xs borr-box font-sans-serif font-bold">Return to menu</a><div class="article-body grid-body grid-center" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">When he was 3 years old, McCrae was kidnapped by his abive, whe-supremacist grandparents. In his lyril and poignant <a href=" target=_blank>memoir</a>, McCrae explor a childhood built on li: that his father, who is Black, didn’t want him, and that people who looked like his father — and him — were dangero. McCrae fally ran away om home at age 13 — a turng pot that helped him realize that stori he was told about his past were not te. As he reassembled the facts of his life, McCrae fed a path that led him to a rnn wh his father and a stronger sense of his own inty. McCrae, an award-wng poet, pats a strikg pictn of his childhood trma and the pths of his sire to unrstand and heal. (Scribner, Aug. 1)</p></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="listicle-rd-P6W5ATOSQNH2FAT2VWCBHWX6PY-6"><div id="list-headle-P6W5ATOSQNH2FAT2VWCBHWX6PY-6" tabx="0" class="wpds-c-jKHtLo"><div></div><h3 class="wpds-c-eKlvKd listicle-headle" data-qa="list-headle">‘Las Madr’ by Esmerelda Santiago</h3></div><a href="#sendary-nav" class="skip-lk sr-only sr-only-focable black unrle brad-md pa-lg mb-xs borr-box font-sans-serif font-bold">Return to menu</a><div class="article-body grid-body grid-center" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">After an early trma leads to a signifint bra jury, Luz forms a lifetime bond wh three women: her tutor, Ada; Ada’s partner, Shirley; and their dghter, Graciela. The close-kn group of women helps Luz’s dghter re for her mother her Bronx apartment. But when Luz’s nfed md returns to her Puerto Rin childhood, she n remember only agments. A planned trip to Luz’s homeland uld clarify her memori, but when the women’s arrival cis wh Hurrine Maria, their survival sudnly pends on the kdns of neighbors, who may also have the answers Luz seeks. Santiago offers a vibrant <a href=" target=_blank>portrayal</a> of women supportg one another through disabily and hardship. (Knopf, Aug. 1)</p></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="listicle-rd-SZI64EY3BRGJZJX55JDHZC7DYY-7"><div id="list-headle-SZI64EY3BRGJZJX55JDHZC7DYY-7" tabx="0" class="wpds-c-jKHtLo"><div></div><h3 class="wpds-c-eKlvKd listicle-headle" data-qa="list-headle">‘The Many Liv of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lyg, Stealg, Wrg, and Healg’ by Lara Love Hard</h3></div><a href="#sendary-nav" class="skip-lk sr-only sr-only-focable black unrle brad-md pa-lg mb-xs borr-box font-sans-serif font-bold">Return to menu</a><div class="article-body grid-body grid-center" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">At the height of her dg addictn, Hard, a suburban soccer mom, rorted to stealg cred rds om her neighbors’ mailbox. When the law fally ught up to her, everyone her cul--sac watched as she was handcuffed and hled away to the Santa Cz unty jail. Homels, jobls, iendls and now childls, she rebuilt her life, navigatg rceratn by earng the rpect of her fellow mat. Release and revery allowed her to revent herself as a ghostwrer, yet even wh her newfound profsnal succs, she kept herself isolated om others bee of her shame about what she had done. Hard’s progrs om addict to shame to remptn started wh self-acceptance, and her <a href=" target=_blank>memoir</a> illtrat how a person’s future should never be wrten off bee of past mistak. (Simon & Schter, Aug. 1)</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">Sound on! 6 perfect dbooks to kick off your summer.</a></span></p></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="listicle-rd-KZDSY6YJVBB3DII5GTLMSPOLKY-8"><div id="list-headle-KZDSY6YJVBB3DII5GTLMSPOLKY-8" tabx="0" class="wpds-c-jKHtLo"><div></div><h3 class="wpds-c-eKlvKd listicle-headle" data-qa="list-headle">‘The Way Life Should Be’ by William Dameron</h3></div><a href="#sendary-nav" class="skip-lk sr-only sr-only-focable black unrle brad-md pa-lg mb-xs borr-box font-sans-serif font-bold">Return to menu</a><div class="article-body grid-body grid-center" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Thomas and Matt have found love late their liv. Both me out after marriage and fatherhood, and they have settled to a happy life together as a married uple. When their three young-adult children arrive on the doorstep of their fathers’ two-bedroom ttage on Mae’s southern ast seekg help and refuge, the disarray dredg up issu that threaten to wreak havoc on the tenuo extend-fay stabily. The joy Dameron’s <a href=" target="_blank">but novel</a> is found the chaotic mss of blendg fai, and the strength that love and lghter n provi. (Ltle A, Aug. 1)</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">Sign up for the Book World newsletter</a></span></p></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="listicle-rd-PZQFXXOTXZAQ7GUMF4Y7JLJDXY-9"><div id="list-headle-PZQFXXOTXZAQ7GUMF4Y7JLJDXY-9" tabx="0" class="wpds-c-jKHtLo"><div></div><h3 class="wpds-c-eKlvKd listicle-headle" data-qa="list-headle">‘Shark Heart: A Love Story’ by Ey Habeck</h3></div><a href="#sendary-nav" class="skip-lk sr-only sr-only-focable black unrle brad-md pa-lg mb-xs borr-box font-sans-serif font-bold">Return to menu</a><div class="article-body grid-body grid-center" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Habeck’s <a href=" target=_blank>but novel</a> is a highly origal, heart-rendg story about abidg love that transcends trma, grief — and even metamorphosis. Lewis and Wren, newly married, receive a lamo diagnosis: Wh the year, Lewis will physilly bee a great whe shark. They vow to stay nnected whatever way they n. As Lewis transforms, his velopg aquatic habs offer a glimpse of what he is to bee, and Wren is forced to ntemplate a life wh, or perhaps someday whout, an ocean-dwellg creature who lov her but who nnot fight nature. The uple’s story alternat wh glimps of Wren’s life before Lewis, the stggl her mother faced and the sacrific they both ma for a chance at happs. 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Soon Pl’s hangg lights, trimmg tre, and steamg up his new flannel sheets wh ’ll take some wter magic to prerve their happs and keep the rival neighbors together longer than one holiday gay romance novel is perfect for the holidays or any time of year if you love gmpy/sunshe, neighbors to lovers romanc. Together, boundari blur, and beg exposed uld mean tastrophic nsequenc for n you rist a gay romance novel where the bodyguard and his charge fall for one another? This is fely one of the more popular young adult gay romance novels bee who don’t want to read about young love and first love that all starts wh an adorable meet-cute?

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This is the story of Pl, a sophomore at a high school like no other: The cheerlears ri Harleys, the homeg queen ed to be a guy named Daryl, and the gay-straight alliance was formed to help the straight kids learn how to Pl meets Noah, he thks he’s found the one his heart is ma for. The school bookie says the odds are 12-to-1 agast him gettg Noah back, but Pl’s not givg up whout playg his love really n you not want to pick up this gay romance novel after readg that blurb? But I found out a ltle secret that he plays for the “other” team and that he wants you’re up for an emotnal, forbidn gay romance novel, you’ll want to check out this one om Ella Jam.

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If you love a gmpy-sunshe, enemi-to-lovers, age gap sports romance wh a steamy slow burn love story, then this is the gay romance novel for you.

My goal once I graduate is to get an NHL, keepg to the l is harr than I thought would is another hockey gay romance novel worth readg, but this one is set llege.

I really liked the simplicy of the story and how was really an oppos attract kd of love that velops pretty quickly wh Max beg like, oh I gus I’m bi… you love hockey gay romance novels, check out this one about two ach! But he’s been keepg a secret om Swanstt has three certati his life: he’s gay, football is overrated, and he really, really don’t like wboys.

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He should never have fallen to W’s open-range ey or let his heart n wild when W gave him that shy ltle se over stadiums packed, ESPN all over him, and the NFL wantg him, W is feelg the prsure, but all he wants is to love you’re lookg for a good, oppos attract, gay romance novel, you’ll want to meet W and Jt.

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If you love Greek mythology, you’ll be swept up this love story between Achill and Patrocl makg an exquise, historil gay romance novel you don’t want to pass up. Baz would be havg a field day wh all this, if he were here — ’s their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon’s furiatg nemis didn’t even bother to show is a gay romance novel that is a mix of ghost story, mystery and love story wrapped up a young adult package. One that Alistair and his brothers have rried all their liv… and one that Alistair and Nate’s future children will rry, is fely a gay romance novel unlike any other I’ve read and I’m so cur to check out.

Ian Tanner asts through life nyg the spark of anger beneath his laid-back school polics and personal liv bee a battleground, the pair fd that what they share may jt be their only safe those lookg for a gay romance graphic novel that is a b darker and an enemi to lovers story, check this one out. Mt-Read MM Romance BooksEnemi to Lovers Books MM Romance15 New Gay Romance Books Releasg 2023Bt Lbian Romance Books15 New Lbian Romance Books To Read 2023#OwnVoic Romance Books to Diversify Your ReadgBooks Like Red, Whe and Royal Blue to Get Your Fix.

16The One Te Me and YouFrom the thor of The Disasters and Spellhacker this ntemporary romance about two young people — one a sapphic fanfic wrer who’s figurg out their genr inty, the other a secretly gay pageant queen who lov all thgs fandom — who cross paths when their hotel hosts a nventn and a pageant at the same time.

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And while you n always zy up on the uch and prs play on a movie about queer love, the LGBTQ books will take thgs one step of the classics, bt-sellers and new releas on this list put gay characters at the heart of the story — or at the very least, are wrten by thors who intify as LGBTQ+. You won’t fd a buttoned-up gay love story the pag: Purnell unearths the dysfunctn of Black, broke and queer men fallg and out of love (or, well, lt).

While the genre of gay romance fictn shar the same termted quanty of flawed exampl as other wrg styl and ocsnally suffers om bad taste, tacks, and sensive wrg om wrers experienced queer subject matters, the sheer amount of lerature gems on this particular shelf outweighs all opposn, and go whout sayg that wh a ltle b of foright, each book you read will leave you posively starvg for the next. But no matter what form tak, and no matter which shap the characters fill, one thg is always certa when to gay romance books – love, baby.

Held as a classic of Brish lerature general and as a fg piece of gay wrg, the novel mirrors and ptur the sence of s time wh much skill and feelg, takg the rear on an emotnal journey unlike any other.

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This hab leads to the Amerin teacher qutng and rethkg both his prent, past, and future – the state of the world he liv now and the life that he had nstcted about himself, where he is leadg himself, and how to move on om his childhood the south of the US, where beg gay was more often a curse than an inty. If the mer of s story don’t speak for self, the book was labeled as ‘A rich, important but, an stant classic to be savored by all lovers of ser fictn bee of, not spe, s subject: a gay man’s enavor to fathom his own heart’ by Aaron Hamburger of The New York Tim Book Review, lled one of the bt books of the year by more than fifty publitns and has received sterlg reviews across all platforms. A darg, ntemporary gay romance book wh as much to say and reveal the way of gay romance as do wh polil trigue, Swimmg the Dark is a play of extrem – both growth and loss, of joy and pa.

Wh an apt, emotn-wracked pictn of the shame and segregatn related to beg gay and tryg to mata relatnships agast outsi nontatn, Swimmg the Dark is unrivaled executn, makg a revolutnary read. While first love is a mon theme many romance novels and films, whether they are gay or not, we n all adm that never gets old and that we, as rears and onlookers, never get bored of .

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A perfect example to this effect, The Boys on the Rock enpass the g out story of sixteen-year-old swimmer Billy Connors and his entrance to the world of makg his way through life as a gay man. When his first steps to gay love e, however, is nothg as he expected, and Billy soon disvers that the difficult part wasn’t simply g out and balancg his social life all along – but rather g to grips wh who he is si as well as what people on the outsi thk of him. Dcribed the Washgton Post as a classic, Fox’s only novel is a piece and statement for the ag – displayg perfectly what mak gay romance fictn so unique.

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Held as an important part of gay lerature, Atom Hearth John Beloved is an timate, wonrful glimpse to the feelgs and words – or lack thereof – that symbolize the moment when iendship be somethg more. A regaled fluence the gay rights liberatn movement, Isherwood’s roster of works is imprsive and expansive, but A Sgle Man is perhaps the very bt known, havg earned a play adaptatn and the appreciatn of untls crics and reviewers sce s populatn 1964.

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Probably the most well-known out of this list to those not necsarily faiar wh gay romance and gay lerature as a genre due to s famo film adaptatn, spe some cricism of the movie self, Brokeback Mounta is solely rponsible for spirg a new era of gay fictn and reprentatn media. A fe classic like the rt of the books this list, Brokeback Mounta is certaly an even more pellg read than others and a shoo- as one of the bt gay romance novels ever. Compared to other works of gay fictn, Christopher and His Kd provi a rare glance to the havens and safe muni found by gay people rather than their stggl and challeng.

Though the popular life of Wgmen at the time of s actual publitn was relatively short, experienced somewhat of a rurrectn much later and even gaed somewhat of a followg bee is one of the earlit known novels wh a strong gay protagonist, makg somewhat unique amongst the other books of s time and kd.

Takg a note om some of the most legendary novels of all time, the Bt Ltle Boy the World is a classic piece of gay lerature, scribg wh great skill and narrative prows the story of a boy growg up gay Ameri and the challeng he to face both early and later life. Rather than form a tale about a trailblazg figure for gay rights or a tragilly closeted man who miss out on the bt parts of his life due to his ner shame, The Bt Ltle Boy the World settl perfectly the middle. Though the world mov on and we e to accept new thgs, the time when gay people no longer have to feel ashamed of themselv and face discrimatn seems forever on the horizon.

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