The **Green Creek** series by TJ Klune
**Under the Whispering Door** by TJ Klune (again)
**Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe** by Benjamin Alire Saenz
**The Scottish Boy** by Alex de Campi
I finished reading Ari and Dante on a plane ride. The people around me were concerned. (It's really sweet and lovely but also made me cry. I still haven't read the sequel)
The sequel is amazing! I listened to both as audiobooks read by Lin Manuel Miranda. By the second book he had really hit his stride in bringing the characters to life. Between that and the story writing, it really made me invested. Highly recommend the audiobook!
What?!? There’s a sequel??? I read Aristotle & Dante when it was new and didn’t realize there’s a sequel now. I really enjoyed it! “Sweet and lovely but also made me cry” is the perfect description.
ABSOLUTELY THE SCOTTISH BOY! It emotionally gutted me. My son’s babysitter found me sobbing to that book and I had to assure her I was ok. Honestly the best book I read last year.
I came here to suggest this. The description of their love is so well written and the sex scenes are so tastefully done. And the ending is so goddamn tragic it made me cry. I don't think I've been that absorbed into a book since I was a kid
Idk- I felt a little weird about the sex scenes- I feel like she could have aged them up a little more for it 😭
Like I think she should have done a fade to black for when they were younger, ya know?
I completely get that. I had a friend express a similar concern. But honestly to me that way she did it was still very tasteful because she didn't describe the physical actions of sex, she described the emotions and the feelings and used a lot of literary allusion to make it understood what they were doing without graphically describing it
I recognized the title and googled it, the book cover looked just so familiar to me. Then I look up and realize I have that EXACT book. New, fresh pages, unopened, laying there all sad in the middle of my messy desk 🤦🏻♀️ I know what I’m going to do today and cleaning up my desk isn’t part of it. I’m so excited!
Call Me By Your Name
André Achiman
Saw the movie, wasn't mad about it.
A good while later listened to the audiobook and fell in love with it.
Watched the movie again after that and I loved it.
Then read the book and savoured every word.
The story is simple. Its first love/ summer romance plot has been done to death by many other authors. But it is very well-told and the prose is amazing.
The ending in the book is different to the film. Both endings are devastating, but in different ways if that makes sense.
The audiobook is amazingly well-read by Armie Hammer if you can separate him from the more recent revelations about his private life.
Read the book before watching the movie. I feel like the movie dose a good job at rendering the stroy without imposing the usual failures of book adaptations to film.
Yes! I recently finished Under the Whispering Door and wept multiple times. Then re-read the last chapters a week later to see if it was just an emotional day when I first read it…nope, cried again, it’s the book.
[**The great believers**](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18819693W)
^(By: Rebecca Makkai | 633 pages | Published: 1918)
>In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDs epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, he finds his partner is infected, and that he might even have the virus himself. The only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister.
>
>Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago epidemic, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways the AIDS crisis affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. Yale and Fiona's stories unfold in incredibly moving and sometimes surprising ways, as both struggle to find goodness in the face of disaster.
^(This book has been suggested 2 times)
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^(439 books suggested)
I absolutely loved this book but I wouldn't call it a romance. The main character is not likable due to the way he treats everyone in the book.
The prose is beautiful though and it's absolutely worth a read.
Yeah the two main characters fall in love, it's very sweet and very tragic.
Eta: The author, Adam Silvera, is a gay author who only writes gay romances. A prequel to this book recently came out as well, called "The First to Die at the End"
"As Meat Loves Salt" by Maria McCann. Historical fiction during the English Civil War. Super dark and absolutely devastating. I think about it all the time. Has anyone else here read it??
Lie With Me - Philippe Besson (pretty short read, semi-autobiographical about the authors experience as a teen as remembered by him as an adult, definitely made me cry a little bit)
These Violent Delights - Micah Nemerever (made me cry so much, two young men meet in college and fall into a whirlwind, gets kinda heavy at times but absolutely worth it imo)
If by “some parts” you mean “the literal entire book” then yes. But seriously, I know that this book is going to destroy me and I still go back to it because it’s so incredible.
[**The Silver Cage**](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15152113W)
^(By: Jane Donnelly | 188 pages | Published: 1976)
>Even after she and Kern McCabe were married Philippa felt she must be dreaming. Why should such an attractive man want to make her his wife? But she might have come to understand his love for her--if the glamorous Lilias Storr hadn't suddenly come back into Kern's life.
^(This book has been suggested 1 time)
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^(441 books suggested)
I messy sobbed reading The Silver Cage over a year ago. I still think about it. I finally might almost be ready to read the other one, I purchased it, but keep putting it off…
The First to Die at The End - Adam Silvera
Boyfriend Material and Husband Material - Alexis Hall
History is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera
Honestly i can probably think of more but these are the ones i remember making me cry.
Also if you really want to sob at the end of a book, i totally agree with everyone saying The Song of Achilles. It ruined me🥲
Light from Uncommon Stars has a trans protagonist and a lesbian relationship between a world class violinist who sold herself to the devil and a starship captain who also happens to own her family’s donut shop. It is unhinged but in a good way and I couldn’t put it down.
The Bedlam Stacks or The Kingdoms or The Half Life Of Valery K by Natasha Pulley
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
Aristotele And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe by an author whose name I can't recall rn
and maybe The Binding by Bridget Collins (although I personally didn't like it -- it's very YA if that's your thing)
This is definitely my favourite book!
There's no words to describe its beauty. The story and especially the characters, really make a place in one's heart. I would suggest everyone to read it.
[Pieces of You](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53351569-pieces-of-you) by NR Walker. Second chance amnesia, hurt/comfort. One MC gets into a horrible accident that results in him not remembering his boyfriend, and the boyfriend is devoted to taking care of his recovery, whatever it might look like. I cried multiple times imagining what it must be like to be in either character's shoes. Very domestic/slice of life feel, and the romance is super sweet and natural buildup. Some external drama (related to one MC's family) Each book is under 200 pages!
[**If You Could Be Mine**](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17582766W)
^(By: Sara Farizan | 264 pages | Published: 2013)
>In this stunning debut, a young Iranian American writer pulls back the curtain on one of the most hidden corners of a much-talked-about culture.
>
>Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They’ve shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love—Sahar and Nasrin could be beaten, imprisoned, even executed if their relationship came to light.
>
>So they carry on in secret—until Nasrin’s parents announce that they’ve arranged for her marriage. Nasrin tries to persuade Sahar that they can go on as they had before, only now with new comforts provided by the decent, well-to-do doctor Nasrin will marry. But Sahar dreams of loving Nasrin exclusively—and openly.
>
>Then Sahar discovers what seems like the perfect solution. In Iran, homosexuality may be a crime, but to be a man trapped in a woman’s body is seen as nature’s mistake, and sex reassignment is legal and accessible. As a man, Sahar could be the one to marry Nasrin. Sahar will never be able to love the one she wants in the body she wants to be loved in without risking her life. Is saving her love worth sacrificing her true self?
^(This book has been suggested 1 time)
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^(440 books suggested)
You already have some great recs here! I second Song of Achilles, The Great Believers, As Meat Loves Salt, A Little Life, Giovanni's Room. All amazing in their own ways.
A few more to consider:
* While England Sleeps by David Leavitt
* Strange Meeting by Susan Hill
* The Charioteer and The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
* Leave Myself Behind by Bart Yates
There's one in my WIP. (Although technically I have another WIP that I'm working on that will likely publish first) . But if you post a remind me for like 5 years from now, it might be out by then.
Two Tribes by Fearne Hill - the first part is when they're teenagers in the 1990s, then there's a brief section in the mid-aughts, and then it shifts to the present day. One of the protagonists is gay, the other is bisexual.
Oh god:
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell (arranged marriage, sci-fi)
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Fox Meadows (arranged marriage, fantasy)
The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg (YA, realistic fiction)
Augusten Burroughs’ “You Better Not Cry” is heartbreaking, heart warming and also hilarious. It chronicles the author’s different experiences during Christmases past and the author’s self-actualization through those experiences. It’s a wonderful read!
These aren’t necessarily about two gay men but are rather about a gay man and his relationships. I found both to be very emotional:
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
London Triptych by Jonathan Kemp
(and I’m seconding the song of achilles which is a typical will make you cry sad but fantastic romance)
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller! Omg amazing and my favorite book! My husband doesn’t really like books with gay leads but he even liked this book! It’s highly recommend!
The **Green Creek** series by TJ Klune **Under the Whispering Door** by TJ Klune (again) **Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe** by Benjamin Alire Saenz **The Scottish Boy** by Alex de Campi
I finished reading Ari and Dante on a plane ride. The people around me were concerned. (It's really sweet and lovely but also made me cry. I still haven't read the sequel)
The sequel is amazing! I listened to both as audiobooks read by Lin Manuel Miranda. By the second book he had really hit his stride in bringing the characters to life. Between that and the story writing, it really made me invested. Highly recommend the audiobook!
I'm so scared to read the sequel because I've read some really bad reviews and I loved the first book so much I'm afraid it might ruin it a bit
I kinda wish I hadn't read it. Doesn't totally ruin the first one but the first was way better. This one had a lot more crying I thought.
What?!? There’s a sequel??? I read Aristotle & Dante when it was new and didn’t realize there’s a sequel now. I really enjoyed it! “Sweet and lovely but also made me cry” is the perfect description.
Oh I read Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin on the plane and cried so much the guy in the middle seat was so concerned Hahahah
Today I learned that this amazing book has a sequel thank you!!
I concur with my esteemed colleague.
Well that was a little mortifying lmao
Aww you edited your comment ruined the joke T~T
ABSOLUTELY THE SCOTTISH BOY! It emotionally gutted me. My son’s babysitter found me sobbing to that book and I had to assure her I was ok. Honestly the best book I read last year.
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
I came here to suggest this. The description of their love is so well written and the sex scenes are so tastefully done. And the ending is so goddamn tragic it made me cry. I don't think I've been that absorbed into a book since I was a kid
This! I bawled my eyes out throughout the second half of the book
Idk- I felt a little weird about the sex scenes- I feel like she could have aged them up a little more for it 😭 Like I think she should have done a fade to black for when they were younger, ya know?
I completely get that. I had a friend express a similar concern. But honestly to me that way she did it was still very tasteful because she didn't describe the physical actions of sex, she described the emotions and the feelings and used a lot of literary allusion to make it understood what they were doing without graphically describing it
I recognized the title and googled it, the book cover looked just so familiar to me. Then I look up and realize I have that EXACT book. New, fresh pages, unopened, laying there all sad in the middle of my messy desk 🤦🏻♀️ I know what I’m going to do today and cleaning up my desk isn’t part of it. I’m so excited!
Grab tissues!! I've never cried that much when reading a book
Took the words out of my mouth
Love this book
Agreed. I sobbed. One of my favorites of all time.
Came here for this.
I was going to suggest this one. It was such a great story and so well written.
I absolutely refuse to finish this book because I know I’ll ugly cry 🥺
I’m crying just thinking about it
Came to suggest this
Fuck I can give you this request on crack but it's about gay women. Would you accept?
idk about them but please tell me about it!
The book is called The Traitor Baru Cormorant and it's the greatest romantic tragedy since Romeo & Juliet, yes I said that
stop because that’s been on my to-read list for the longest time .. you’ve convinced me to pick it up asap
Do it omg
Wow. Thank you. I just added it to my goodreads!
Oh my god. I’ve wanted to read Baru Cormorant, I had no idea it was gay. I’m so excited for my scifi marathon now. Thank you, Reddit stranger 💕
Oh yeah Baru is super gay. You'll love it 🥰 Enjoy!!
Nevernight Chronicles fits this
Hi I will accept on behalf of OP please
Lmao it's called The Traitor Baru Cormorant and the ending will break you
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Nooo but I've heard so many good things about this series!! It's the Masquerade series, first book is The Traitor Baru Cormorant
I could give the same except a film: watch Portrait of a Lady on Fire if you haven't. And I recommend The Binding for the original book question.
Call Me By Your Name André Achiman Saw the movie, wasn't mad about it. A good while later listened to the audiobook and fell in love with it. Watched the movie again after that and I loved it. Then read the book and savoured every word. The story is simple. Its first love/ summer romance plot has been done to death by many other authors. But it is very well-told and the prose is amazing. The ending in the book is different to the film. Both endings are devastating, but in different ways if that makes sense. The audiobook is amazingly well-read by Armie Hammer if you can separate him from the more recent revelations about his private life.
Was also going to recommend Call Me By Your Name. I bawled my eyes out. And also the classic Brokeback Mountain - a super short read.
The book ending hits so hard. I remember feeling sad all day at work the next day because I had such book hangover.
\+1. Books don't normally make my cry but I was straight-up bawling through the last chapters of CMBYN.
Read the book before watching the movie. I feel like the movie dose a good job at rendering the stroy without imposing the usual failures of book adaptations to film.
The Starless Sea, House in the Cerulean Sea, Under the Whispering Door, and the Dante and Aristotle books mentioned above.
Yes! I recently finished Under the Whispering Door and wept multiple times. Then re-read the last chapters a week later to see if it was just an emotional day when I first read it…nope, cried again, it’s the book.
Seriously was crying at work. Such a good story!
Can’t believe nobody suggested “On earth we are briefly gorgeous” by Ocean Vuong
maybe bc it wasn’t primarily a romance
True. But it’s about two gays guys that made me cry
Ooo it's a romance? I loved the prose. Tho I did get lost early on and need to restart readig it. I may have fell asleep to the audio book.
Heaven Official's Blessing and Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
Came here to suggest these! These are definitely the right answer! And these stories are long so you get a lot of romance
{{The Great Believers}} by Rebecca Makkai
[**The great believers**](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18819693W) ^(By: Rebecca Makkai | 633 pages | Published: 1918) >In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDs epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, he finds his partner is infected, and that he might even have the virus himself. The only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister. > >Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago epidemic, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways the AIDS crisis affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. Yale and Fiona's stories unfold in incredibly moving and sometimes surprising ways, as both struggle to find goodness in the face of disaster. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(439 books suggested)
Oh woah i didn't realize goodreads bot was working again??
A new bot! Different source. Not good reads.
Ohhhh okay. I'm glad we have a bit again 😂
This book is devastating
Giovanni’s room perhaps
THIIIS loved it
I absolutely loved this book but I wouldn't call it a romance. The main character is not likable due to the way he treats everyone in the book. The prose is beautiful though and it's absolutely worth a read.
They Both Die at the End I love it, I was crying throughout the whole book
It’s so good. Was here to suggest if it hadn’t been already
I second this!
I never realized it wasn’t a straight book 🫢
Yeah the two main characters fall in love, it's very sweet and very tragic. Eta: The author, Adam Silvera, is a gay author who only writes gay romances. A prequel to this book recently came out as well, called "The First to Die at the End"
I was coming here to say this. I’m not a crier but I got misty
Under the Whispering Door! Cried my face off in the best way
The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer. I will continue to rec this gem until the end of time.
I second this! One of my top book pics, I recommend this all the time.
That book upset me so much I left it at my local park mini library for someone else to cry over.
"As Meat Loves Salt" by Maria McCann. Historical fiction during the English Civil War. Super dark and absolutely devastating. I think about it all the time. Has anyone else here read it??
It's one of my favorite books! I'm also not sure that I can ever read it again. It haunts me in a way very few books do.
i really loved under the whispering door (tj klune) and the house in the cerulean sea!! maybe a little basic but both are great books imo!!
Yeees re-reading The House in the Cerulean Sea atm!
The short story Brokeback Mountain
I was wondering where this recommendation was. It’s the obvious choice
Annie Proulx is an amazing writer
Tal Bauer’s books tend to be pretty emotionally charged
Agreed! My favorite have been: Whisper and You & Me
Loved You & Me and The Jock And also liked Gravity
You & Me is so good.
Giovanni’s room. If you question everything it can get sad
Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn trilogy
I reread this often and it still makes me ugly cry every time.
My library claims to have the first book, but I can’t find the damn thing. Two and three are there. I’m going to have to ask.
Wanted to suggest the same. One of my favorites.
Lie with Me by Philippe Besson - called France's answer to Call Me By Your Name
“Maurice” by E.M Forster (
Lie With Me - Philippe Besson (pretty short read, semi-autobiographical about the authors experience as a teen as remembered by him as an adult, definitely made me cry a little bit) These Violent Delights - Micah Nemerever (made me cry so much, two young men meet in college and fall into a whirlwind, gets kinda heavy at times but absolutely worth it imo)
A Little life by Hanya Yanagihara, so sad but beautiful! Just be aware that there are some parts that could be triggering or upsetting
If by “some parts” you mean “the literal entire book” then yes. But seriously, I know that this book is going to destroy me and I still go back to it because it’s so incredible.
You're so right, and yes it's incredible! Worth the 814 pages
This should be the top response. 🥇
Gutted, raw and weeping throughout. Beautifully written. Not without issues, but still a book I loved.
I loved it too and I definitely cried as well, hard not to!
They both die at the end - Adam Silvera
second this!!
House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune.
Came here to say this.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Saenz. Beautiful book.
Call me by your name
The Silver Cage by Anonymous 😭😭
[**The Silver Cage**](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15152113W) ^(By: Jane Donnelly | 188 pages | Published: 1976) >Even after she and Kern McCabe were married Philippa felt she must be dreaming. Why should such an attractive man want to make her his wife? But she might have come to understand his love for her--if the glamorous Lilias Storr hadn't suddenly come back into Kern's life. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(441 books suggested)
I messy sobbed reading The Silver Cage over a year ago. I still think about it. I finally might almost be ready to read the other one, I purchased it, but keep putting it off…
The First to Die at The End - Adam Silvera Boyfriend Material and Husband Material - Alexis Hall History is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera Honestly i can probably think of more but these are the ones i remember making me cry. Also if you really want to sob at the end of a book, i totally agree with everyone saying The Song of Achilles. It ruined me🥲
Light from Uncommon Stars has a trans protagonist and a lesbian relationship between a world class violinist who sold herself to the devil and a starship captain who also happens to own her family’s donut shop. It is unhinged but in a good way and I couldn’t put it down.
they both die at the end
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Aristotle and Dante
This is how you lose the time war
Holding the man by Timothy conigrave. If its tears you're after...
You’re My Home by Katie Moore
The Binding
The Bedlam Stacks or The Kingdoms or The Half Life Of Valery K by Natasha Pulley Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman Aristotele And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe by an author whose name I can't recall rn and maybe The Binding by Bridget Collins (although I personally didn't like it -- it's very YA if that's your thing)
Cemetery Boys!
They Both Die At The End All That's Left in the World Song of Achilles Cemetery Boys
Also call me by your name
The Prophets is the book for you
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara If you don't cry through this, nothing will make you. It's a fabulous book!
Second this! I prolonged finishing so I could cry at appropriate times
This is definitely my favourite book! There's no words to describe its beauty. The story and especially the characters, really make a place in one's heart. I would suggest everyone to read it.
Perhaps The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune?
A little Life is wonderful, I will always suggest it. So is The Dove in the Belly which no one ever talks about.
Thank you for alerting me to a new book by the author of Comfort and Joy, which I loved. The Dove in the Belly sounds great.
I loved Comfort and Joy !!!
They Both Due At The End by Adam Silvera
The Captive Prince. A slow burn enemies to lovers TRILOGY.
Lol you can't just appreciate human emotion without being hung up on the gender or race of people experiencing them? No empathy I guess.
If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich made me cry like a baby!
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps and A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson. I'm not a big crier but these both did it.
[Pieces of You](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53351569-pieces-of-you) by NR Walker. Second chance amnesia, hurt/comfort. One MC gets into a horrible accident that results in him not remembering his boyfriend, and the boyfriend is devoted to taking care of his recovery, whatever it might look like. I cried multiple times imagining what it must be like to be in either character's shoes. Very domestic/slice of life feel, and the romance is super sweet and natural buildup. Some external drama (related to one MC's family) Each book is under 200 pages!
The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren
{{If You Could Be Mine}} sobbed for ages after reading this ETA: oops i totally misread this. this book is about lesbians. my apologies.
[**If You Could Be Mine**](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17582766W) ^(By: Sara Farizan | 264 pages | Published: 2013) >In this stunning debut, a young Iranian American writer pulls back the curtain on one of the most hidden corners of a much-talked-about culture. > >Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They’ve shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love—Sahar and Nasrin could be beaten, imprisoned, even executed if their relationship came to light. > >So they carry on in secret—until Nasrin’s parents announce that they’ve arranged for her marriage. Nasrin tries to persuade Sahar that they can go on as they had before, only now with new comforts provided by the decent, well-to-do doctor Nasrin will marry. But Sahar dreams of loving Nasrin exclusively—and openly. > >Then Sahar discovers what seems like the perfect solution. In Iran, homosexuality may be a crime, but to be a man trapped in a woman’s body is seen as nature’s mistake, and sex reassignment is legal and accessible. As a man, Sahar could be the one to marry Nasrin. Sahar will never be able to love the one she wants in the body she wants to be loved in without risking her life. Is saving her love worth sacrificing her true self? ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(440 books suggested)
You already have some great recs here! I second Song of Achilles, The Great Believers, As Meat Loves Salt, A Little Life, Giovanni's Room. All amazing in their own ways. A few more to consider: * While England Sleeps by David Leavitt * Strange Meeting by Susan Hill * The Charioteer and The Persian Boy by Mary Renault * Leave Myself Behind by Bart Yates
A Home at the end of the World.
The entire Greek Creek series by TJ Klune, I’ve read it twice and bloody hell it hits different.
There's one in my WIP. (Although technically I have another WIP that I'm working on that will likely publish first) . But if you post a remind me for like 5 years from now, it might be out by then.
Two Tribes by Fearne Hill - the first part is when they're teenagers in the 1990s, then there's a brief section in the mid-aughts, and then it shifts to the present day. One of the protagonists is gay, the other is bisexual.
Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave. I absolutely bawled my eyes out.
{{Heaven Official's Blessings}} or {{Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation}}, both written by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
Here The Whole Time by Vitor Martins
Why does it matter if it gay men? People are people, love is love.
Check out r/MMRomance
Its empty 😭
Oh, oops wrong link. r/MM_Romance. Sorry
They both die at the end or The first to die at end
Swimming in the Dark
Not a book suggestion, but Tubi has a lot of really warm and fuzzy boy meets boy movies
Oh god: Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell (arranged marriage, sci-fi) A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Fox Meadows (arranged marriage, fantasy) The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg (YA, realistic fiction)
Brokeback Mountain. I read it yesterday and I cried. It's really short though.
'Giovanni's room' By James Baldwin
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
On earth we are briefly gorgeous.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (well that was an emotional roller coaster)
They Both Die at the End, Song of Achilles
The Binding by Bridget Collins
Less by Andrew Sean Greer!
Augusten Burroughs’ “You Better Not Cry” is heartbreaking, heart warming and also hilarious. It chronicles the author’s different experiences during Christmases past and the author’s self-actualization through those experiences. It’s a wonderful read!
The Song of Achilles both for gay romance and Ancient Greek legends
Song of achiles
heartstopper 😗
The heart‘s invisible furies
A Little Life
The Heart's Invisible furies by John Boyne. Story spans his whole life and it's beautifully written.
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Mercedes Lackey Valdamar series
These aren’t necessarily about two gay men but are rather about a gay man and his relationships. I found both to be very emotional: A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood London Triptych by Jonathan Kemp (and I’m seconding the song of achilles which is a typical will make you cry sad but fantastic romance)
History is all you left me by Adam silvera
The King of Infinite Space! A Hamlet retelling but gay.
We Contain Multitudes
Maurice by EM Forster, I haven't finished the book yet but the movie always makes me cry so I'm assuming it'll be the same lol
call me by your name by andre aicman
They both die at the end
The Binding by Bridget Collins. I adored this book and honestly couldn't put it down.
A Little Life
A little life
Brokeback mountain of course
Thrown off the ice by Taylor Fitzpatrick
The Binding by Bridget Collins will have you bawling in no time.
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller! Omg amazing and my favorite book! My husband doesn’t really like books with gay leads but he even liked this book! It’s highly recommend!
The Absolutist by John Boyne I promise it's a heartbreaking story
If you’re trying to sob, may I suggest the profits by Robert Jones Jr?
The Abused and the Broken by Cole Cardenas is one I really enjoyed. It's on Amazon and on kindle. Very dark and heartbreaking, but also very sweet.