Gay love stories novels
Get ready to curl up and snuggle with one of the best same-sex attracted romance novels from our list, and discover the top male/male (MM) love stories with exciting plots.
On our list, you will find some classic gay romance books from Forster, Baldwin, and Miller mixed with some recently-published new books that are sizzling-hot page-turners by Frank, Bowen and Blakely, and others.
Interestingly, quite a few female authors made the list of the best gay romance novels. All the writers of any gender seem to know how all the male body parts perform, especially the heart. If you enjoy this round-up of romance novels, you might also like our guide on the leading erotic novels.
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Here Are The 18 Best MM Intimacy Novels
1. Maurice by E.M. Forster
British author E. M. Forster wrote Maurice in This book stayed in a desk drawer for 57 years, waiting to be published posthumously in Homosexuality was illegal in the UK until , three years before Forster&#;s death. This story is set in England during the 20th century. It follows the main personality, Maurice Hall, from his youth to being a student at university and then becoming an adult.
Maurice falls in love with another male college stu
Gay love stories in historical fiction
What was it prefer to be a same-sex attracted man in Paris in ? While researching my novel The Beasts of Paris, I couldn’t discover much in 19th-century writing about homosexual love, and even later there are strangely few literary, gender non-conforming, period-set love stories (shout outs to Sarah Waters and Mary Renault), so I’m pushing the boundaries of both ‘love story’ and ‘historical’ here. All I found in 19th-century accounts is an occasional minor character – e.g. in Zola’s Nana – or documentary reports of police raids, or porn (thank you, Jack Saul). I delved into novels, paintings and photographs as well as history. And if my historical period stretches from Ancient Greece to the early s – well, you get what you can get.
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Maurice by E.M. Forster
The daddy of all gay devotion stories. Although written in , Forster’s book was not published until after his death, in He was inspired to compose it after meeting the writer and activist Edward Carpenter and his long-term partner George Merrill. It’s a deeply sympathetic picture of a man who experiences intense passion, first with his closeted finest friend Clive, and then, after Clive’s marriage, with the self-acce
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