Mary Calmes- Mine, Matter of Time series, Change of Heart, Marshalls series
Charlie Cochet- Thirds series
J.l Langley-With or Without series
Emma Holly- Hidden Passions
Tere Micheals- Faith, love,And Devotion series
Riley Hart-Broken Pieces

[Soire]

TJ Klune - The Lightning Struck Heart (Fantasy > Humor)
Wiltshire John - More Heat Than The Sun srs (Spy/Suspense)
Rose Christo - Snowblind (Native American > Sociological)
Ginn Hale - Cadeleonian srs (Fantasy > Magic)
Sam C. Leonhard - Rage srs (High Fantasy > Assassin)
Cari Z. - Where There Is Smoke (SF - Paranormal Dystopian)

3 titles by A.J. Rose I really liked:
The Long Fall of Night (Dystopian)
Reaping Havoc (humorous/Ghost > Reaper)
The Anatomy of Perception (Thriller)

[Weelee]

I've almost finished :
The Changers of Chandris by A C Smyth

Crowchanger
Stormweaver
Rifthealer

minimum sex, decent story line, otherworld

N.R. Walker The Spence Cohen Series - Book 3 will be release on April 27th

The Rhys Ford books, in particular his Cole McGinnis series is amazing and so is is Sinners books. For a different pace JL Langley is great - a sci-regency series that is fun and interesting. Amy Lane if you feel like angsty fun, and for great murder mysteries Josh Lanyon.

Thanks for the recommendations. I loved At Swim, Two Boys. Will search out some of the more recently published titles from your list.
My list would include:- Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan and John Green
Hero by Perry Moore
Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
and Dance on My Grave by Aidan Chambers

Oh my gosh, Patricia Nell Warren's "The Front Runner" was the very first mm novel I ever read! I still have the paperback that I bought when I was in high school way back in 1974!! I cried so much...I lived in Montreal and the climax of the story Takes place during the 1976 summer Olympics...

[spiceyhot]

I just finished a bunch of books by J. C. Owens: Betrayal, Wings, Taken, The Emperor's Wolf, Wishes, The Falling, The Ice Prince.
All good if your looking for political intrigue and "captive or slave" to lover.

there are so many good authors but i love best amongst others are Mary Calmes, Stormy Glenn, Lexi Ander, etc. Too many to name all.

[venture01]

Try Slow Bloom by Anah Crown & Dianne Fox...truly excellent May/December romance.
Kate Steele's A Sure Fire Cure
K.M. Mahoney's Odd Man In
Sean Michael's Bite and Bitten books (werewolves)
A.E. Via's Nothing Special series and Blue Moon series
Lyn Gala'Series Claiming series (aliens) one of my all time favs

[auswombat]

I guess I should add A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara (2015) to this list. At 700 pages, it is a long read that slowly sucks you in.

Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light.

When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.

In rich and resplendent prose, Yanagihara has fashioned a tragic and transcendent hymn to brotherly love, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance.

Someone has written:
"You will hear that this is a book about 4 friends. It's not. They're a nice framing device, but this is a book about one person and the people who are connected to him. His life is made up of extremes. I found myself weeping over and over again because of the love and compassion and kindness that characters in the book displayed. But this book has some of the most harrowing and horrifying scenes I've read anywhere. It is not really spoiling anything to say this involves terrible things happening to a child. Everyone knows from the very beginning that something bad happened to Jude when he was young. It's just so much worse than you could imagine. (If you have trouble reading about child abuse, it's probably best you not read this book. While it's essential to the story, it is not glossed over or referenced vaguely and what is described is truly terrible to contemplate.)"

Basically, the story is about Jude St. John, who was abandoned as a baby and brought up in a monastery, where he was abused by the priests. He runs away with one of the brothers, who pimps him around the motels of America. This abuse continues in various forms with various people until Jude is rescued at 15 years of age. This catalogue of abuse is revealed by drip-feed in flash-back through the rest of his life, as Jude does or does not cope with the massive trauma he has suffered. Jude is surrounded by people who love him, and want to help him deal with whatever is in the past that so troubles him, and about which he will not talk, but his demons will not let him, so he compensates by cutting himself. This does not sound like a fun read, but it does open a window into the soul of a person living with the worst kind of sexual abuse. When I finally finished this book, I felt as if I was saying goodbye to an old friend. You will not easily forget this book. I would have to add it to a list of books that changed me.

[JaneD]

I guess I should add A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara (2015) to this list. At 700 pages, it is a long read that slowly sucks you in.

Someone has written:
"You will hear that this is a book about 4 friends. It's not. They're a nice framing device, but this is a book about one person and the people who are connected to him. His life is made up of extremes. I found myself weeping over and over again because of the love and compassion and kindness that characters in the book displayed. But this book has some of the most harrowing and horrifying scenes I've read anywhere. It is not really spoiling anything to say this involves terrible things happening to a child. Everyone knows from the very beginning that something bad happened to Jude when he was young. It's just so much worse than you could imagine. (If you have trouble reading about child abuse, it's probably best you not read this book. While it's essential to the story, it is not glossed over or referenced vaguely and what is described is truly terrible to contemplate.)"

Basically, the story is about Jude St. John, who was abandoned as a baby and brought up in a monastery, where he was abused by the priests. He runs away with one of the brothers, who pimps him around the motels of America. This abuse continues in various forms with various people until Jude is rescued at 15 years of age. This catalogue of abuse is revealed by drip-feed in flash-back through the rest of his life, as Jude does or does not cope with the massive trauma he has suffered. Jude is surrounded by people who love him, and want to help him deal with whatever is in the past that so troubles him, and about which he will not talk, but his demons will not let him, so he compensates by cutting himself. This does not sound like a fun read, but it does open a window into the soul of a person living with the worst kind of sexual abuse. When I finally finished this book, I felt as if I was saying goodbye to an old friend. You will not easily forget this book. I would have to add it to a list of books that changed me.

Thanks for the synopsis of this book, auswombat. It's gotten so many good reviews but people treat the central storyline as a bit of a mystery, which makes it hard to decide whether to read it. I've had it on my kindle a long time, might crack it open this summer.

My favorites have to be the Society of Gentlemen series by KJ Charles. The second book in particular is a stand-out, well-crafted with big stakes in the story. I love historical romance, and it's very hard to find writers who can portray the period in a way that's accessible to modern readers.

Many of the books listed here I know and like. Here are my starred MM books not mentioned elsewhere in this thread

* Neil Bartlett: Ready to catch him should he fall (I bought it to reread it when it became available as an epub because it made such a lasting impression - very original)
* Lee Benoit: Songbook: Paulo and Preston Shorts - I was surprised to like it though it was BDSM, but the idea of a dom finding ways to dominate in spite of very severe arthritis spoke to me, and the protagonists were sweet.
* Julie Bozza: The Definitive Albert J. Sterne (2 books), even though I found the serial killer aspect difficult. She has good lighter books too, Butterfly Hunter for instance.
* Matt Brooks: Honeymoon Cottage - one of those rare historical romances which work for me (1962)
* Anna Butler: The Gilded Scarab - steampunk around the British Museum
* Hurri Cosmo: Baby, Think It Over - a very strange YA story about two (very rich) boys having to parent an artificial baby
* Guy Davenport, eg The Death of Picasso, a collection of fiction and essays
* Mykola Dementiuk: The Bookstore Clerk, another historical (New York in the late 60's)
* Vaughn R. Demont, eg Coyote's Creed
* Amy Rae Durreson: Lord Heliodor's Retirement
* Failte: The Girl for Me - transgender
* Lou Harper, eg Dead in L.A. series
* A.F. Henley: Honour
* Lisa Henry & J.A. Rock: The Two Gentlemen of Altona
* Clare London: 72 hours
* Anna Martin: Cricket
* Sasha L. Miller: Drinker Class X
* Paul Monette: the later, very angry novels about AIDS (his non-fiction Last Watch of the Night is better, but outside the scope here)
* Chris Owen: Shady Ridge and the Neon Sky
* Neil Plakcy: The Noblest Vengeance
* Richard Rider: the Stockhom Syndrome Series, though I didn't manage to finish the first one, but I did read the rest (the strangest is We're All Mad Here, very short, Mad Hatter style)
* Zoe X. Rider: Charlie in a Red Dress
* A.M. Riley: Son of a Gun
* Kris Ripper: Gays of our Lives - a protagonist with MS, no glossing over the problems
* Nora Sakavic: The Foxhole Court - I was surprised all the time
* Hollis Shiloh: Joey and the Fox
* J.F. Smith, eg Latakia
* Andrea Speed: Josh of the Damned series
* K.V. Taylor: The Family: Liam - a different vampire story
* Aleksandr Voinov: Veterans - I skimmed through the heavy BDSM which is a large part of it, but an integral part of the story. Another one about growing old
* Zosofi: Gravity's Got Nothing on you
* and several collections: Charmed and Dangerous, Closet Capers, Irregulars, Private Dicks Undercover

I would add James Purdy if I could find as epubs those novels I liked on paper (I only found the short stories).

[he11ion]

Anne Rice - Cry to Heaven is probably my favourite

[clawdy]

Amy Lane - "Selfie" is probably the best I read this year. Along with Klune's "How to be a Normal Person".