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Fave Five: Gay Fiction Set in the 1980s

These are all Adult fiction; YA will be posted separately.

My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson

Disco Witches of Fire Island by Blair Fell

Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

Rent Boy by Gary Indiana

Bonus: For books that cover multiple decades including the 80s, check out Tramps Like Us by Joe Westmoreland, A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle, and No Other World by Rahul Mehta

Fave Five: Adult Fiction Set in the 1980s

My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson (NYC)

Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski (Poland)

No Other World by Rahul Mehta (US, India)

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (London)

Jobs for Girls With Artistic Flair by June Gervais (Long Island)