Gay Victorian Book List
Hey there! I'm making this collaborative list of novels set in Victorian Age that have some sort of gay, m/m representation. Edwardian Age is fine as well. Please, do leave your recommendations in the comments below, I'd be happy to add them!
I'll mark with an asterisk (*) the books I have read myself.
Written in 19th century
The Sins of the Cities of the Plain, by Jack Saul (1881)*
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (1890)*
The Green Carnation, by Robert Smythe Hichens (1894)
A Marriage Below Zero, by Alan Dale (1889)
Fridolins heimliche Ehe (Fridolin's Mystical Marriage), by Adolf Wilbrandt (1875)
Written in 20th century
Maurice, by E.M. Forster (1914)*
Imre: A Memorandum, by Edward Prime-Stevenson (1906)
Desire and Pursuit of the Whole, by Frederick Rolfe (1904)
The Prussian Officer, by D. H. Lawrence (1914)
The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys, by Forrest Reid (1905)
The Immoralist, by André Gide (1902)
Tonio Kröger, by Thomas Mann (1903)
Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann (1912)*
Contemporary
The New Life, by Tom Crewe (2023)
The Invention of Love, by Tom Stoppard (1997)*
An Unseen Attraction, by K.J. Charles (2017). Trilogy.
The Prince of Mirrors, by Alan Robert Clark (2018)

















