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The world of gay romance novels is, if non quite as vast as the earth of m/f romance, notwithstanding quite expansive. Are you looking for a royal-commoner romance? A fake matrimony? Something night and gritty, or something that'south the literary equivalent of a basket of puppies? Whatever information technology is that floats your romance gunkhole, I guarantee there's an m/m romance out at that place that will satisfy.
In making this listing, I've highlighted as many #ownvoices authors as possible. There'southward a misconception that the merely people who write grand/m romance are straight women, and while information technology'south truthful that some of the biggest names in gay romance are straight women, there are also dozens of queer men writing fantastic gay romance. But because of the biases and shortcomings of publishing (and a slew of other complicated factors), information technology's straight women who ofttimes get the virtually recognition in the genre.
This is not to say that direct women can't, or shouldn't, write gay romance novels. You'll observe several (including some of my accented favorites!) on this list. You'll also observe many wonderful books by queer men that deserve the same praise and recognition. I've tried to make this list as wide-ranging every bit possible, and information technology includes books almost diverse characters written by queer men and women, queer authors of color, and trans and genderqueer writers.
Over the years, these tales of queer happily e'er afters have brought me much joy and comfort. Whether you're entirely new to gay romance novels, or whether you lot've been reading them for years, I promise they'll bring yous the aforementioned delight.
Note: Books marked with an asterisk are #ownvoices, which, in this case, ways that the writer is a queer man. Many of the other novels on this list are #ownvoices for dissimilar reasons. I've called only to make note of books written by queer men, only information technology is by no ways intended to erase or ignore the many other identities held by the fabled writers who have produced these works.
Historical Gay Romance Novels
*The Doctor'southward Discretion by e.e. ottoman
MCs: a retired Navy surgeon and a gentleman doctor more comfortable effectually books than patients.
Setting: 1830s New York City
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: an heady and activeness-packed rescue of a hospital patient about to be committed to an asylum; racism and transphobia in 1830s NYC.
Rep: black MC, trans MC
An Unseen Attraction by K.J. Charles
MCs: a quiet boarding-business firm keeper and i of his lodgers, a taxonomist.
Setting: Victorian London
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: a murder mystery; a beautifully depicted tight-knit queer community; some kink.
Rep:Indian, neurodivergent MC
The Soldier'southward Scoundrel by Cat sebastian
MCs: a grumpy, unscrupulous, street-smart private eye (think: Olivia Pope in 1820s London) who grew up in the slums and despises nobility and a retired (and very proper) soldier who craves order and predicability.
Setting: Regency London and the English countryside
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: enemies-to-lovers; a mystery involving blackmail; interesting and complicated family unit dynamics; explorations of class differences and inability.
Rep: disabled MC
contemporary Gay Romance Novels
Tactical Submission by ada maria soto
MCs: a gay SWAT commander who'due south mostly in the closet about being kinky and submissive and a bisexual, polyamorous kinky doctor who works for the coroner'due south office.
Setting:Fifty.A. County
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: BDSM, polyamory, characters dealing with PTSD, lots of on-the-page sex (this one is definitely erotic romance).
Rep: bisexual, polyamorous MC
Idlewild by jude sierra
MCs:a restauranteur still mourning the death of his husband and the determined college graduate he hires every bit part of his staff reboot.
Setting:Detroit
Tropes/themes/secondary plot:workplace romance; lots of nutrient and cooking; friends-to-lovers; an historic period gap; an interracial relationship; characters dealing with grief.
Rep: black genderqueer MC
*Java Male child by austin chant
MCs: an intern at a political campaign, just out of higher and stunned he'southward landed his dream job, but too dealing with the stress of being out and trans in a not-very-supportive workplace and the somewhat prickly and uptight entrada strategist who actually ends up being super charming and kind.
Setting: the offices of a political entrada somewhere in contemporary America
Tropes/themes/secondary plot:workplace romance; the MC dealing with transphobia from coworkers (but not the dearest interest); some fun behind-the-scenes political campaign drama.
Rep: trans MC, bisexual MC
His Convenient Husband by Robin Covington
MCs: an NFL histrion, widower, and unmarried dad raising his teenage son and a ballet dancer from Russia seeking aviary in the U.Southward.
Setting:LA
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: fake union; sports romance; characters dealing with grief; parenting; secondary characters that matter to the plot.
Rep:black MC
*Hot Head by damon suede
MCs: two lifelong best friends and Brooklyn firefighters (who may or may not have been hiding their feelings for each other for years) who determine to work as models for a gay porn website because one of them is basically broke.
Setting:Brooklyn postal service-9/11
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: friends to lovers; total hilarity; a satisfying and authentic secondary cast of friends and family unit; tasty bootleg Italian food described in detail.
Rep: gay MCs
* Trouble and the Wallflower by Kade Boehme
MCs: a shy twenty-something with social anxiety who lives alone and works at a soda fountain and a loud, outgoing sort-of-hipster.
Setting: Seattle
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: opposites attract; complex family dynamics; a cast of secondary characters who are in turns lovely, annoying, endearing, and frustrating.
Rep: neurodivergent MC
*Tigers and Devils by Sean Kennedy
MCs: a famous football player who'southward spent his life in the closet and a mega football game fan who is also kinda lonely and runs an independent moving picture festival.
Setting: Melbourne, Australia
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: sports romance; lots of malaise; celebrity romance; characters dealing with homophobia (from the public and in their families); a wonderful and heartwarming drove of friends and chosen family surrounding both MCs.
Rep: gay MCs
Gays of Our Lives by Kris Ripper
MCs:a somewhat grumpy recluse who has MS, which sometimes means his torso does non act as he wants it to, and a super cheerful, open and non-at-all grumpy artist/hipster.
Setting: Oakland/Bay Area
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: adorable opposites-attract romance; a character that deals with chronic illness on a daily basis, especially as his disease pertains to sex; BDSM; a potent sense of queer community and queer community.
Rep: disabled MC
*Second Risk by Jay Northcote
MCs: a freelance writer who returns to town where he grew up to give himself and his teenage daughter a fresh start and his childhood best friend, who has just moved back in with his parents after his alcohol addiction sent his life into a downwardly spiral.
Setting: a small-scale town in the UK
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: friends-to-lovers; 2d-take chances romance; parenting; older MCs (both men are in their forties); family dynamics; characters struggling with addiction and low.
Rep: trans MC
*Starting from Scratch by Jay Northcote
MCs: a tranquillity trans college student who's just returned to academy afterward transitioning and the approachable ex of ane of his friends.
Setting: Plymouth, England
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: higher romance; authentic and sweet delineation of friendship amid young gay academy students; some downright adorable and geeky board game playing.
Rep: trans MC
Shame and A Disgrace by Holley Trent
MCs: a pharmaceutical sales rep who's just dumped his much younger boyfriend who he thinks is likewise young to settle downward and commit, and the much younger boyfriend, who is determined to win dorsum the dearest of his life.
Setting: New Orleans
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: second chance romance; age gap.
Rep: gay MCs
Hearsay by Taylor V. Donovan
MCs:2 lawyers working for the same constabulary firm who go to know each other over a serial of lunch meetings and then reconnect a twelvemonth subsequently over an of import case.
Setting:NYC
Tropes/themes/secondary plot:workplace romance; courtroom drama; significant angst involving a senior partner and junior associate pining for each other.
Rep: biracial MC
*For Existent by Alexis Hall
MCs: a thirty-something trauma md and submissive who's getting tired of the BDSM scene he's been a role of for so long and a nineteen-year-old line cook who is just coming out every bit kinky and ascendant.
Setting: London
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: age gap romance; BDSM; lots of malaise surrounding the MCs emotional openness; a stiff circumvolve of friends and called family; a wearisome-burn romance; a fair bit of on-the-page sex.
Rep: gay MCs
*Glitterland by Alexis Hall
MCs: a bipolar writer, once well-regarded, who now writes crime fiction and by and large keeps to himself and a political party boy and aspiring model who surrounds himself with people and lights.
Setting:London
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: grapheme dealing with mental illness; a fair bit of angst and self-loathing; backstory that involves intense heartbreak and loss; a surprising amount of humor and levity.
Rep:MC with mental illness
*The Pettiness of Benby Brad Boney
MCs: a ascension hotshot lawyer who is forced to return abode to care for his three teenage brothers after his father dies and his next-door, small-town, openhearted neighbor.
Setting:Austin, TX
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: parenting; characters dealing with grief; family dynamics.
Rep: gay MCs
Kings and Collywobbles by Lina Langley
MCs: the owner of an inn on one of the almost popular seaside resort boardwalks in the world and a mysterious guest who offers him $x,00 in cash to stay for a week and then disappears.
Setting: a fancy seaside resort town
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: lots of fun nutrient-related details; a dear interest who is a mysterious stranger; a very sweet department where the MCs are apart geographically and connect online; some kink.
Rep: bisexual MC
A Boy Called Cin past Cecil Wilde
MCs: a famous billionaire and a charmingly grumpy art pupil.
Setting: California and a cabin in Oregon
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: May/December romance; billionaire romance; wonderful cast of supporting characters (mostly trans); characters dealing with dysphoria and transphobia who concur each other and back up each other in truly wonderful means; very little angst.
Rep:trans MC, genderqueer MC, bisexual MCs
*Autumn: A Crow City Side Story past Cole McCade
MCs: a forty-something man grieving the kidnapping of his niece and the man he's always loved, who happens to be his sister's ex-hubby and the father of his niece.
Setting: Crow Metropolis (fictional)
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: characters dealing with grief and loss; enemies-to-lovers; a lot of emotional luggage; dark themes including kidnapping.
Rep: disabled MC, bisexual MC
*his cocky valetby Cole McCade
MCs: a 23-year-old who all of a sudden finds himself the head of his father's multibillion dollar corporation and the forty-something British homo he hires to piece of work every bit his valet (i.due east. personal assistant).
Setting: NYC
Tropes/themes/secondary plot:workplace romance (boss/employee) age gap romance; storyline involving a family member with cancer; BDSM.
Rep: biracial Japanese-American MC
*Shattered Drinking glass by Dani Alexander
MCs: a detective who'due south well-nigh to get married and has dreamed his whole life of joining the FBI and a waiter he meets i day at a diner who turns out to exist a whole lot more than he seems.
Setting: Denver, CO
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: historic period gap romance; murder mystery; lots of drama and angst and situations where characters frequently in danger; a fantastic supporting cast of friends and family.
Rep: gay MCs
*King Consort by J.R. Grey
MCs: a prince and heir to the throne of England and a paparazzi lensman with whom, against his improve judgment, he shares a one-dark stand.
Setting: Toronto and London
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: majestic/commoner romance; a grapheme dealing with being closeted due to his position (English royalty); fantastic supporting characters (especially the MC'due south grandmother, the Queen); angsty.
Rep: gay MCs
Syncopation
by Anna Zabo
MCs: the pb vocaliser of a rock ring and the human being who joins them as their new drummer after a scandal
Setting: diverse locales in contemporary America (the band tours throughout the book)
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: musician/rock band romance; BDSM; characters dealing with trauma; circuitous secondary characters/bandmates that form a wonderful queer chosen family.
Rep: pansexual aromantic MC
*Virtually Like Being in Dear by Steve Kluger
MCs:a nerdy college student and a jock, who fall in love their senior year, drift apart, and are so reunited twenty years later on.
Setting: Tarrytown, New York, in the 1970s; various locales in America in 1998
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: a unique narrative style, told in checklists, messages, and ii POVs; 2d-chance romance.
Rep: gay MCs
*Galley Proofby Eric Arvin
MCs: a fiction writer and the editor of his latest book.
Setting: small town America and Italian republic
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: snarky, hilarious beginning-person narration; a great supporting cast including the MCs mom and best friend/roommate; engaging depictions of small town life.
Rep: gay MCs
*Domicile by William Neale
MCs: an advertising exec who returns to his hometown later the death of his father and the human being who bullied him in high schoolhouse, at present the deputy chief of constabulary.
Setting: small-scale-town Southern American
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: characters who share a by traumatic relationship (which involved 1 MC bullying the other); a stalker situation; a return-to-hometown romance; characters dealing with homophobia from diverse angles.
Rep: gay MCs
*Dear Me Tomorrow by Ethan 24-hour interval
MCs: an result planner and a paramedic (who besides happens to be the brother of his newest, virtually important customer).
Setting: Wilde Metropolis (fictional)
Tropes/themes/secondary plot:a human being working to build up his business organisation and the challenges he faces; a love interest in an existing relationship; a bandage of endearing supporting characters.
Rep: gay MCs
*Shaking the Sugar Tree past Nick Wilgus
MCs: a single dad and failed writer struggling to brand ends run across and a nurse who recently moved to Mississippi from Boston.
Setting: Mississippi
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: parenting; complicated family dynamics; lots of interesting supporting characters; a lot of emotional backstory; characters dealing with various traumas.
Rep: gay MCs, deaf secondary graphic symbol (the son of one of the MCs)
Daddy, Daddy, and Meby Sean Michael
MCs: a single dad who finds himself raising his biological kids after his best friend, to whom he donated sperm, dies and a young human who just finished his caste in early childhood teaching and is looking for a nannying job.
Setting: Ontario
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: parenting; fantastic delineation of queer family building; an adorable run across-cute (involving screaming children); almost no angst.
Rep: gay MCs
Keeping the Cookies by Briana Lawrence
MCs: a man reeling after a recent breakup who takes a job as a holiday elf at the mall and the kind janitor he meets there.
Setting: Minneapolis
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: holiday (Christmas) romance; adorable run into-beautiful; lighthearted story with little angst.
Rep: black MCs
*Hearts Alight by Elliot Cooper
MCs: a young man who's become sick of the meaninglessness and consumerism of his family'southward Hanukah commemoration and his long-time vanquish, his best friend's uncle, who also happens to be a golem.
Setting: a city in gimmicky America
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: vacation (Chanukah) romance; romance involving a long-time crush; lots of geekiness (including an amazing scene where the MCs play D&D); family dynamics and a lovely supporting cast (esp. the MC'due south best friend).
Rep: bisexual MC
*Shy by John Inman
MCs: an banana bank manager with social anxiety disorder and an Indiana farm boy.
Setting: San Diego and a farm in Indiana
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: return-to-hometown romance; a character dealing with a sick parent; lots of farm shenanigans and humour; characters that deal with both shyness and social anxiety disorder.
Rep: MC with social feet
*Legally Wed past Rick R. Reed
MCs: a man who's given up on romantic love, and then decides to marry a adult female and (of course!) his wedding planner.
Setting: Seattle
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: marriage of convenience; forced proximity; diverse relationships explored likewise the primary dear involvement; an arc of self-discovery and affirmation that's separate from the love story.
Rep: gay MCs
Fantasy & Paranormal Gay Romance Novels
*Peter Darling by Austen Dirge
MCs: Peter Pan (reimagined equally a trans human being) and Helm Hook.
Setting: Neverland
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: a cute and nuanced gay, trans retelling of Peter Pan; equal parts romance and risk.
Rep: trans MC
*Witches of London-Lars
by Aleksandr Voinov
MCs: a pagan human being and contractor who'due south just joined a new circle of queer witches and a human being who has just quit his stressful job and bought an one-time firm in the suburbs, due to his failing health.
Setting: London
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: a character with a life-threatening illness; queer witches who practice diverse forms of paganism; an exploration of spirituality and faith; a lovely portrayal of queer family among the witches.
Rep: gay MCs
*Shatterproof by Xen Sanders
MCs: an immortal EMT who feeds on the souls of those he loves and an artist whom he stops from attempting suicide.
Setting: London and its suburbs
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: a dark fairytale with a satisfying ending; heavy subject matter including low and suicide; lots of emotional heft; lyrical writing; some exploration of Haitian voodoo.
Rep: blackness MC, bisexual MC
*From the ashes past Xen Sanders
MCs: an aberrant (homo with superpowers) villain disguised as a graduate student and the professor who becomes fascinated by him.
Setting: New York City & the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: lots of fast-paced activeness; political intrigue; complex characters with alien emotions; a storyline that plays with what it means to be a villain.
Rep: Southeast Asian MC
The Alpha'due south Claim past Holley Trent
MCs: the alpha of the New York coyote pack and an aspiring histrion/waiter.
Setting: modest town New York
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: a condensed time frame (most of this book takes place over a weekend); coyote shifter pack politics; lots of witty banter.
Rep: gay MCs
Ocean Lover
by J.K. Pendragon
MCs: a quiet and reclusive fisherman and a merman who washes up injured on the beach near his motel.
Setting: a tiny and remote Canadian angling town
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: a fairytale vibe; forced proximity romance; a tender and sweet story with footling malaise; one MC nursing the other dorsum to health.
Rep: trans MC
*The Lightning Struck Eye by T.J. KLune
MCs: a magician's amateur and a dreamy knight who spends birthday too much fourth dimension dating other people.
Setting: a fantasy kingdom populated by beautiful queer creatures
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: a creative and unique bandage of characters and creatures including gay dragons; lovely friendships; a totally fun and wacky fantasy globe; dangerous quests; many moments of total laugh-out-loud humor.
Rep: gay MCs
Scientific discipline Fiction & post-apocolyptic
Bespeak Boost past Alyssa Cole
MCs: a man who has survived the apocalypse and is living with his family in a tiny cabin and a young astrophysics university educatee who appears in their garden one day.
Setting: a secluded cabin in post-apocalyptic New York
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: a long road (walking trip); family dynamics; high-stakes drama/activeness; life in the mail-apocalyptic world.
Rep: Korean MC
*Incursion by Aleksandr Voinov
MCs: a human being on a mission to chase and kill an alien spy and the helm of the spaceship he hitches a ride on.
Setting: a mercenary spaceship
Tropes/themes/secondary plot:fascinating aliens; fast-paced activeness; a mysterious beloved interest with an intriguing past; a graphic symbol dealing with the backwash of state of war.
Rep: disabled MC
Anarchy Station
by Jenn Shush and Kelly Jensen
MCs:a spaceship engineer and an ex-supersoldier, both with traumatic pasts, who are as well babyhood all-time friends (and former boyfriends), reunited subsequently being separated for years.
Setting: a spaceship roaming the galaxy afterward a major interplanetary war
Tropes/themes/secondary plot:2nd-chance romance, friends-to-lovers, a lot of fast-paced activity; a truly wonderful sense of chosen family among the spaceship coiffure; fascinating aliens; characters dealing with PTSD from a brutal war.
Rep: bisexual MC
YA Gay Romance Novels
*Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe past Benjamin Alire Sáenz
MCs: two Mexican-American teenage boys coming of age in 1980s Texas.
Setting: El Paso
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: complex family dynamics; friends-to-lovers; self-discovery; exploration cultural heritage and identity.
Rep: Latinx MCs
*Ane Man Guy by Michael Barakiva
MCs: a high school freshman from an Armenian family and the brash, irreverent boy he meets at summer schoolhouse.
Setting: NYC
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: family unit dynamics; a coming-out storyline that's not the center of the book at all; kickoff love; so many astonishing nutrient scenes; an exploration of civilisation and heritage and how important their Armenian identity is to the MCs family.
Rep: gay MCs
*Chulito by Charles Rice-Gonzalez
MCs: a teenage boy from the S Bronx and his babyhood best friend, whom he distanced himself from when folks around the neighborhood started teasing him for being gay.
Setting: NYC (specifically the S Bronx)
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: beautiful descriptions of the neighborhood and community; characters dealing with homophobia; friends-to-lovers; nuanced supporting characters; exploration of masculinity and identity.
Rep: Latinx MCs
*Running with Lions past Julian Winters
MCs: the star goalie of the high school soccer teen and his babyhood best friend, who arrives unexpectedly at summer training camp.
Setting: soccer training camp
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: sports romance; a various and lovable soccer team that feels more like a family; friends-to-lovers; a sugariness and tender love story low on the malaise.
Rep: bisexual MC, Muslim British Pakistani MC
*The Love Involvement by Cale Dietrich
MCs: two boys raised as "beloved interests" (forced to compete for the interest of the same girl) by a undercover and powerful organization that trains teenage spies.
Setting: dystopian Australia
Tropes/themes/secondary plot: fascinating world-edifice; lots of loftier-stakes activeness; a queer and creative twist on the spy novel; lots of angst; a creepy dystopian corporation.
Rep: gay MCs
Looking for more gay romance novels? Check out 8 of the Best Grand/M Romances and A (Semi) Comprehensive Guide to LGBTQ Romance. Gay romance novels too announced on this list of must-read YA romances and this list of must-read LGBT fantasy books.
Source: https://bookriot.com/must-read-gay-romance-novels/
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