Books like The Great Believers
In 1980s Chicago, art gallery director Yale Tishman watches the AIDS epidemic take his friends, and in 2015 Fiona, the sister of one of them, searches Paris for her estranged daughter.
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The Late Americans
Graduate students and gig workers in Iowa City orbit each other through workshops, slaughterhouses, and dating apps, searching for connection in a precarious economy.
Last Words from Montmartre
Twenty letters written by a young Taiwanese woman in Paris to the lover who has left her.
A Little Life
Four college friends make their way in New York, a lawyer, an actor, an architect and an artist, over decades in which one of them, Jude, carries a past of abuse that shapes all their lives.
They Both Die at the End
In a New York where a service called Death-Cast phones people on the day they will die, Mateo and Rufus, two teenagers who get the call just after midnight, meet through an app called Last Friend and spend their last day together.
Another Country
After the suicide of Rufus Scott, a Black jazz drummer, his friends in late-1950s New York, Black and white, gay and straight, try to love one another across every line America draws.
Blue Sisters
A year after their sister Nicky's death, the three remaining Blue sisters, a lawyer in London, a boxer in Los Angeles and a model in Paris, come back to New York to stop their parents selling the family apartment.
Funny Boy
Arjie, a Tamil boy growing up in Colombo in the 1970s and 80s, discovers he is gay as the tensions that will become Sri Lanka's civil war tighten around his family.
The Line of Beauty
A young gay man in Thatcher-era London befriends a conservative MP's family and watches privilege, denial, and desire collide as the AIDS crisis approaches.
Shuggie Bain
In 1980s Glasgow, Shuggie, a gentle, different boy, devotes his childhood to saving his glamorous mother Agnes from the drinking that is destroying her, as poverty closes in around them.
The Most Fun We Ever Had
Marilyn and David Sorenson, still in love after forty years in their house outside Chicago, have four daughters who keep falling short of their parents' marriage, and in 2016 a teenage boy one of them gave up for adoption comes into their lives.
Mostly Dead Things
After her father's death, Jessa-Lynn Morton takes over the family taxidermy shop in Tampa, while her mother starts posing the stuffed animals in explicit tableaux and her brother falls apart.
Young Mungo
A queer teenager in 1990s Glasgow falls for a Protestant boy, and the sectarian violence of the city mirrors the violence inside his home.