Books like I loved you more by Tom Spanbauer

A Little Life follows four college friends in New York as they confront trauma, love and the enduring scars of their pasts, weaving themes of friendship, family, and identity into a profound coming‑of‑age story.

Jennifer Egan’s interlocking narratives weave the lives of Bennie Salazar, a former punk rocker turned record executive, and Sasha, a restless young woman, across decades and continents, exploring music, memory and the fragile threads that bind us.

Alma Singer, a fourteen‑year‑old New Yorker, searches for a book that might cure her mother’s loneliness, while Leo Gursky, an immigrant in the city, hunts the hidden author of a novel that once inspired his love in Polish exile.

After a twenty‑year friendship ends, Arthur Greer is invited to his ex‑boyfriend’s wedding and embarks on a globe‑spanning trip that reconnects him with a past love, tests his courage and forces a fresh start at fifty.

After being adopted by a quirky Dublin couple who treat him only as a house‑guest, Cyril embarks on a life‑spanning quest to discover his origins, his place in Ireland, and the meaning of true belonging.

Arjie, the second son of a privileged Sri Lankan family, struggles to reconcile his playful love of staging wedding pageants with the rigid expectations of adulthood, while confronting his emerging sexuality amid a nation torn by Tamil‑Sinhalese conflict.

A modern retelling of the Trojan War that follows Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, as he abandons a life of freedom to fight for destiny, exploring gay identity and the clash between ancient heroism and contemporary reality.

A recently divorced Latinx woman in her forties reevaluates life when her gangster cousin is released from prison, sparking an unexpected, sexual bond that uncovers hidden family secrets.

In my idea it will be great

In 1985 Chicago, gallery director Yale Tishman faces career triumphs and the devastation of the AIDS epidemic, while his friend Nico dies and his partner tests positive. Thirty years later, Fiona travels to Paris to confront her estranged daughter lost to a cult, uncovering the lasting impact of AIDS on their lives.

A tale of marriage and misadventures, where a successful couple becomes entangled with a naive, yet charming, young woman.

A pioneering 1906 gay romance set in Budapest where a British aristocrat and a Hungarian officer develop a profound friendship that blossoms into love.

A 33‑year‑old Englishman, disaffected and restless, leaves London to tutor in a Flemish city, where a forbidden love for a pupil entwines with other illicit affairs, exposing the harsh costs of impossible desire.

Michael Sledge’s debut novel portrays the intimate life of American poet Elizabeth Bishop in 1950s Brazil, exploring her romance with Lota de Macedo Soares amid Rio’s vibrant culture and political upheaval.

A compromised young teacher travels to Paris under a false identity to investigate the life of Allan Stein, the troubled nephew of Gertrude Stein, while confronting his own hidden desires and past.

In New York's glittering club scene, a gay songwriter’s budding career intertwines with espionage and satire as a witty music producer tracks concert‑lover wives and their powerful husbands for a sensational expose.

In a study that will be of interest to all those concerned with the politics of gender, the history of sexuality, and the erotics of reading, Christopher Craft investigates questions fundamental to any history of present sexualities. How does the modern binary homosexual/heterosexual relate to earlier formulations like "sexual inversion" and "sodomy"? What part does literature play in the development of such categories, or in a culture's resistance to them? And what are the implications for the creation and maintenance of the presumed "natural" male heterosexual subject? How has male heterosexual subjectivity been established as a bulwark against the attractions of a homosexual desire that is repeatedly incited by the very culture that condemns it? Craft examines the discourses of nineteenth-century psychiatry and sexology; some of Freud's central writings; and Tennyson's In Memoriam, Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Stoker's Dracula, and Lawrence's Women In Love.

A Cuban‑born Chicago native discovers her family’s hidden history as conversos, embarking on a journey back to Cuba and the Spanish Inquisition to uncover the truth about her ancestors.

Spanning two decades, this novel follows Bobby and gay Jonathan as they grow up in a 1970s small town, later forming a unconventional family with Jonathan’s mother Alice and Clare.