Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman is Elio Perlman's flashback of his secret love affair with Oliver - an American student with entirely opposing personalities. The sentiments between the two characters, which range from delicate to intense, are never openly spoken but are masterfully represented through symbolic deeds. Every summer, Elio's family hosts a student for six weeks to assist Elio's father with paperwork. Oliver, an extroverted, carefree American college student who was the polar opposite of Elio's introverted nature, was Elio's summer visitor. After a few conversations, Elio knows she has affection for Oliver but is concerned that he does not share his sentiments. Elio, like an archeologist, discovers the foundation for his wants, revealing himself and clarifying his weird new feelings for Oliver.

The reader is taken on a voyage of self-discovery, human definition, and identification of his affections for a young man via the eyes of the character Elio. Call Me By Your Name transformed into a film of the same name, starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer, this love story sparked a worldwide frenzy and earned dozens of prizes and significant nominations at Oscar, Gotham, and BAFTA...

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Author: André Aciman
Publication date: 2007
Genres: Novel

Pages: 256 pp
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Call-Me-Your-Name-Novel/dp/031242678X

The Danish Girl is a moving narrative of Lili Elbe, the world's first transsexual person. The plot is set in Copenhagen, Denmark, in the 1920s, and revolves around the life of famed painter Einar Wegener (or Lili Elbe when she was a woman). In this plot, Gerda who is his wife is also a painter. When the female model did not show up, Gerda persuaded her husband to dress up as a girl so she could finish the painting. Einar experienced unanticipated changes from the minute he touched the garment and applied red lipstick, and the famed painter's wedded life was full of ups and downs.

Gerda continued to paint portraits of her husband, and the picture of the figure Lili (named by Gerda to her husband when he discovered him to be so flawless as a female model) became famous. On the other hand, Gerda had no idea she was gradually waking another person in his body. Then there's the day when he decides he wants to live forever in a woman's body... Everything is conveyed in a straightforward, elegant manner. The Danish Girl has also been turned into a film, which has received critical acclaim from both the public and the public.

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Author: David Ebershoff
Publication date: 2016
Genres: Novel
Pages: 460 pp
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Danish-Girl-David-Ebershoff/dp/0670888087

The love story of Ennis and Jack is already well-known based on the book written by Annie Proulx. They are two guys involved in a love affair, with evenings of lovemaking and cursing lines showcasing the thorns of rugged, ignorant ranchers bred in poverty complain. But in the middle of the dreariness, there are elements that will leave readers devastated and disturbed for the rest of their lives after witnessing their love story. Because the warm hug from behind in the middle of a cold night, or his sad words on the last night "I wish I knew how to leave you" are the deepest memories in Jack's mind.

However, the two men's love was unable to conquer the constraints of society, life, and themselves, and the ultimate result was only despair. Jack's request to have his ashes scattered on Brokeback Mountain was not granted. Ennis lived with inexhaustible anguish and the breaking point when he saw his shirt tucked in Jack's as if it were safe. His heart ached as he saw him staring at his shirt, looking at the Brokeback Mountain postcard, and sobbing, knowing that he would never find peace again. Being with him can only bring Enis loneliness, sorrow, and anguish in the form of nightmares of past memories. Readers will follow their love for the rest of their lives after reading this narrative, forgetting that they are two guys, just in love, the love of two people who love each other passionately.

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Author: Annie Proulx
Publication date: 2008

Genres: Novel

Pages: 648 pp
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Brokeback-Mountain-Annie-Proulx/dp/0743271327

Dying in Venice follows Aschenbach, a writer in his fifties, as he falls in love with Tadzio, a gorgeous young guy he sees and encounters at a hotel in Venice. It was a frantic, one-sided love affair. The passionate Aschenbach is always a distance away, walking, gazing, wondering, and nostalgically, but never getting closer. He pursued the lovely adolescent through the streets of Venice, hoping to catch a glimpse of his heavenly beauty. Only the passion of an artist steeped in beauty can perceive and appreciate every speck of it. And at the end of the voyage, with Aschenbach's silent dying, Death in Venice finds its climax, when the artist entirely surrenders to beauty, enters into the obsession and only death is the end. This pinnacle ending is reminiscent of the man's death in Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark when he has reached the limit of delusion and temptation.

Death in Venice is more than just a wild, deluded love story, it's also a monument to utter beauty, and when people are absorbed in that beauty, they can only go to the end. Aschenbach's death of subjection to love is the pinnacle of so-called beauty. Many generations of readers and reviewers have read Dying in Venice as a work about more than love, but about passion, as Thomas Mann famously observed, "the one who falls in love is more than that," for the spirit is concealed in the lover, not in the beloved. You fall in love means that you enter a wonderful state of illusion.

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Author: Thomas Mann

Publication date: 2012
Genres: Novel
Pages: 152 pp
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Venice-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486287149

When A Single Man was initially published in 1964, it generated quite a sensation in America due to its depiction of a gay middle-aged man who was both genuine and emotional. The story revolves around George, an English professor, and his companion called Jim. They lived together and have shared a modest apartment in the Southern California suburbs for 16 years. Despite the world's preconceptions against gay love, the two men shared their joys and sorrows and fostered their love while apart yet calm. They are seen as monsters by the rest of the world, individuals with cruel identities and children are prevented from approaching them just because of their different love. But then Jim died unexpectedly, leaving George alone to deal with life's loneliness. He was still alive, going about his daily routine, but there was a breath of life that had entirely vanished, transforming him into an empty shadow behind his garments.

The reader will feel sincere when reading The Lonely Man that there is only one most horrible suffering in this world: the loss of a beloved one. There are no gay or straight limits here; it is simply a human feeling. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood is a novel that describes the life of a member of the LGBT community in a realistic manner. In only one day, the reader witnesses an almost-dead person's struggle to blend in with the population, fill the emptiness left by a spouse and live a day like any other. George had to accept losing his ego in order to put on a "mask" that would protect him from the stigmas of society at the time.

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Author: Christopher Isherwood
Publication date: 2012

Genres: Nove

Pages: 240 pp
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Single-Man-Christopher-Isherwood/dp/0816638624

Avid readers love all the books that Adam Silvera wrote but especially love History is All You Left Me. The reason is that it's not only so excellent written, there's not only pain and hope, it's not just about this guy falling in love with another guy, not only loss and grief and healing, but the main character also struggling with obsessive-compulsive disorder. It's great to see not only third-sex characters but characters struggling with mental illness (and characters with both aspects) in a book of young literature. History Is All You Left Me does not trivialize or romanticize any of the issues it deals with.

History Is All You Left Me is a beautiful work about love and loss by author Adam Silvera, promising to bring readers emotional sobbing moments. The book follows the character Griffin, who has just lost her boyfriend in a tragic accident and now struggles with psychological shock and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Griffin is the protagonist in the novel History Is All You Left Me, which takes place after his ex-boyfriend, Theo, drowns in a drowning accident. To let go of the love he once had, he must relive his former memories. Griffin recounts the times he spent with Theo while dealing with sadness, hurt, and mental illness throughout the novel. Silvera portrayed a gay love story with many nuances, affirming the proud existence of the letter B (bisexual - bisexual) in the phrase LGBT. Finally, the readers will see that History Is All You Left Me is an outstanding novel that mixes the past and the present in order to provide hope for the future.

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Author: André Aciman
Publication date: 2007

Genres: Novel

Pages: 256 pp
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/History-All-You-Left-Me/dp/1616956925

Lie With Me tells about a teenager with an open future, with countless destinations, it is at this moment that he falls in love passionately and secretly with his best friend at school, this is also the time when he fully realizes his true gender. The 18-year-old young man Thomas is tall and slim and aloof, with messy hair, dark eyes, lonely, mysterious, rarely smiles to attract many beautiful girls to hover around looking for a little intimacy. Philippe, a young 17-year-old boy of that winter, with thin curly hair, green eyes, only a book lover, closed, was struck by the lightning of his life's love when he saw Thomas standing there separated from his world. Philippe only dared to peek, discreetly observing Thomas from afar. Lie With Me brings anxiety and worries about adulthood, love, and himself in this life. Their love affair was formed in the midst of a society, a time when homosexual views were still full of stigma and insult, in a village in the "remote area" of France, where people People still have very old-fashioned ideas about gay love. And that love is also full of struggles, thinking of a Philippe Besson who is passionately in love with Thomas Andrieu but always wonders if he loves me, and if so, is it passionate, obsessed, nostalgic as his love or not.

In a simple but true and strangely evocative style, Philippe Besson exposed on the page not only a gay love affair of adolescence, a time of carefree, freedom, and freedom. He also packed and cherished inside the pages of the book the most beautiful, brilliant, and happiest time of a person's life.

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Author: Philippe Besson
Publication date: 2019

Genres: Novel

Pages: 160 pp
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Lie-Me-Novel-Philippe-Besson/dp/1501197878

Boy Meets Boy is a fantastic novel about love, friendship, and potential. It's brief and lovely, a romance at heart in which boy meets boy, boy loses boy, boy gets boy, but with various distinct threads intertwined around its fundamental plot. It immerses people in the delights and happiness of love, tolerance, and transcending all social traditions and prejudices, you just want to be submerged in it forever. To say that this book was amazing is not an understatement.

The plot centers around the main characters' young love, Paul, and Noah, a new transfer student at school. To everyone who knows him, protagonist Paul is the luckiest man. He has known since he was a child that he is gay, and he has faced no obstacles along his way. In a tiny town that fully loves and supports its LGBT community, he is surrounded by loving family and friends. When Paul first meets Noah, the new child at school, he immediately recognizes that he has found someone unique. They have a deep, loving connection, but Noah has been injured before, and brutally. Meanwhile, Paul's ex-boyfriend, Kyle, is going through a hard patch and seeks Paul's solace — and perhaps a little more. In the heat of the moment, Paul does something that wounds Noah and destroys his trust. Boy Meets Boy is a tale about love, friendship, errors, self, faith, and hope that is charming enough to grab any reader's spirit.

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Author: David Levithan
Publication date: 2003

Genres: Young adult novel

Pages: 192 pp
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Meets-David-Levithan/dp/0375832998

The film is regarded as one of the most successful lesbian psychological dramas in British cinema history. "My Summer of Love" is based on Helen Crosss' debut novel, which won the Betty Trask Prize for Romantic Literature in 2002. My Summer of Love is a brave, sincere book, which gives us, book-lovers, the hope that the book is not dead and is not only a money-making entertainment machine whatever the cost.

"My Summer of Love" tells the story of a relationship between two young girls from quite different socioeconomic strata. The psychological play carefully expressed the particular sentiments between two girls: a poor-family girl with a brother in prison and a middle-class girl with deep pain in her spirit sharp. Just in the summertime meeting each other, these two girls have discovered a lot about each other and about themselves. These two ladies have learned a lot about each other and themselves in just a few months of friendship. Unlike the novel, in which the author dives into the conflicted British social environment of the 1980s, director Pawlikowski opted to base his work on the love tale of two girls. The film "My Summer of Love" conveys the limitless feelings of first-life sentiments to viewers through beautiful memories, sincere sharing and the love surpasses all prejudices, leaving only endless emotions.

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Author: Helen Cross
Publication date: 2001

Genres: Novel

Pages: 256 pp (first edition, paperback)
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/My-Summer-Love-Helen-Cross/dp/0747575886

LGBT love affairs have appeared in the works of British and American writers since the early 20th century. But it was not until 1952 that the novel "The Price Of Salt" by female writer Patricia Highsmith became a phenomenon published in the United States and officially brought gay literature out of the shadows. The Price of Salt is set in 1950s America, when society was still severely prejudiced against homosexuals, and chronicles the love tale of teenage Therese Belivet a young salesperson with a struggling life, and middle-aged lady Carol Aird who is a housewife in a disappointing divorce, let go of the pressures of everyday life to follow their own path of freedom. They are both lonely persons who are lost in their own worlds and are constantly yearning for happiness. But that happiness of having just found each other was completely shattered when Carol was forced to choose between her baby daughter and the person she loved.

Maybe that's why Therese and Carol's hearts beat together the first time they saw each other as Christmas approached. The gentle but deep affection helps both find new vitality and find the light of joy on the road of traveling in the dreary winter sky. However, happiness was not always enough to help them overcome limits and prejudices, because, at the time, many believed homosexuality was a "disease" that needed to be treated by a doctor. Although their end is unfinished and painful, their love is still a beautiful thing, leaving strong emotions for the reader.

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Author: Patricia Highsmith, Claire Morgan
Publication date: 1952

Genres: Novel

Pages: 276 pp (hardcover ed.), 292 pp (paperback ed., 2004)
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Price-Salt-Carol-Patricia-Highsmith/dp/0393325997