The Lure

In 1979, Felice Picano rocketed to fame with the publication of this shocking, controversial thriller. Riveting and candid in its depiction of the gay sexual subculture of the era, and praised by Step…

If you like book The Lure here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

Our Evenings

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience, as he strug…
Buy this book on Amazon
Dancer from the Dance

One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a bea…
Buy this book on Amazon
Ways and Means

In Daniel Lefferts’s searing debut novel Ways and Means, a striving finance student confronts the line between ambition and greed, and the disordered politics of his era.

Alistair McCabe comes to New Y…
Buy this book on Amazon
Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

A stunning portrait of community, identity, and sexuality by the critically acclaimed author of The Narrow Door

When Paul Lisicky arrived in Provincetown in the early 1990s, he was leaving behind a his…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir

From the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex.

In this peerless memoir, the 85-year-old “paterfamilias of queer literature” (New York Times) re…
Buy this book on Amazon
City of Night

When John Rechy's explosive first novel, City of Night, was first published in 1963, it became a national bestseller and ushered in a new era of gay fiction. Bold and inventive in his account of the u…
Buy this book on Amazon
Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

Before Charles Manson, there was Tony Costa―the serial killer of Cape Cod

1969: The hippie scene is vibrant in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Long-haired teenagers roam the streets, strumming guitars and…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Honeymoon Homicides: A Provincetown Mystery (Sydney Riley Series)

Despite an unforeseen disaster ruining her carefully planned wedding reception, hotelier Sydney Riley is undaunted as she and her brand-new husband Ali leave for their honeymoon in the dunes of Cape C…
Buy this book on Amazon
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York Times * NPR * Vogue * Gay Times * Artforum *

“ Gay Bar is an absolute tour de force.” –Maggie Nelson

"Athert…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Last Juror

In 1970, one of Mississippi s more colorful weekly newspapers, 'The Ford County Times' went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23-year-old college dropout named W…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Geography of Pluto

Twenty-eight-year-old Will, a teacher living in Montreal, has spent the last few months recovering from a breakup with his first serious boyfriend, Max. He has resumed his search for companionship, bu…
Buy this book on Amazon
100 Boyfriends

An irreverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero

It's like that saying, 'Where god closes a door, he opens a window, ' but in this particular case the w…
Buy this book on Amazon
Southernmost

In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles with the limits of belief and the infinite ways to love.

In the aftermath of a flood that washes awa…
Buy this book on Amazon
Changer : méthode

« Une question s’est imposée au centre de ma vie, elle a concentré toutes mes réflexions, occupé tous les moments où j’étais seul avec moi-même : comment est-ce que je pouvais prendre ma revanche sur …
Buy this book on Amazon
Bath Haus

Oliver Park, a young recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partner in Nathan, a prominent DC trauma surgeon. Despite their difference in…
Buy this book on Amazon
Faggots

Larry Kramer's Faggots has been in print since its original publication in 1978 and has become one of the best-selling novels about gay life ever written. The book is a fierce satire of the gay ghetto…
Buy this book on Amazon
In Tongues

A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discovery.

It’s 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon―handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction―takes a b…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Bastard and the Heir

DARCY

The death of my father not only rips out my heart but tears open my entire life.

His funeral brings the appearance of his bastard son, the byproduct of my father’s apparent misadventures. Wren Por…
Buy this book on Amazon
Ex-Wife

An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929—the story of a divorce and its aftermath, which scandalized the Jazz Age.

It's 1924, and Peter and Patricia have what looks to be a very …
Buy this book on Amazon
Four Squares

From the beloved author of The Old Place comes a tender, funny, and fresh novel spanning the 1990s and present day, about a young writer and the community he builds in New York City, and his lonely li…
Buy this book on Amazon