Best M/m Romance Novels

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Has anyone else noticed the best m/m erotica is written by women?

Anne Tenino, who wrote Fratboy and Toppy, and Daisy Harris who wrote the Men of Holsum College series are my two favorite novelists right now. They really understand college kids. Their books are beautiful.

For those who are interested, you can check out my thread "For The Love of College Boys" about my experiences as an older gay man in a college locker room (nonfiction)
 

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Interesting... The recent Falcon and the Winter Soldier queerbaiting scandal actually shed some light into how straight women's fetishism and objectification of male/male relationships and sex probably does more to hurt the LGBT community than to help it. It's just interesting how ongoing conversations about how men do lesbian and queer women's relationships a disservice don't lead many to think perhaps straight women should be hands off when it comes to producing accurate male homoerotic material, instead of the flick and wank fodder it typically turns out to be.
 
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I appreciate your perspective and I hear you. I personally enjoy reading homoerotic m/m material written by women, if it's well-done, realistic and sympathetic to the characters.

I think the authors I mentioned fulfill that criteria.

I have no patience for queer baiting, or any other kind of baiting for that matter, and I take your point.
 
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I think there are many women writers who are very sympathetic to their gay characters and to the LGBT community in general. I actually think the proliferation of quality m/m fiction by female writers has helped to raise awareness and acceptance of gay men in the broader society.
 

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Yes you are perfectly right. Thank you for moving this to a more appropriate location

I didn't move it, or report it... I just thought "this seems like it may suit another section more fittingly".

Thanks for not taking me the wrong way.
 
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I'm now going back over the (limited) range of m/M authors I've read... Yep, 2/3 are women.

Whyborne & Griffin: Jordan L Hawk
Charm of Magpies: K J Charles

Goode Boys: Sean Ashcroft

[Edit: these are series, not titles (I've read several of each).]

I admit 3 authors is too small a sample, but I did notice that the pairings written by women have quite consistent roles assigned. The tops are dominant and usually physically more capable all round. And the sex is generally more intense, getting banged over desks even gets called out in some of the descriptions.

In Ashcroft's books the characters are more likely to be vers and there's a much heavier adherence to the structure of a romance novel.

That said, the other two are historical paranormal romance so they've got other genre obligations to follow.

Tl;dr: I need to conduct more research. For science!
 
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Anne Tenino, who wrote Fratboy and Toppy, and Daisy Harris who wrote the Men of Holsum College series are my two favorite novelists right now. They really understand college kids. Their books are beautiful.

Thanks for the recommendations, I'll add them to my... research plan...
 
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Has somebody read Alessandra Hazard's novels? I love her way of describing every erotic moment without missing any detail. And the humor is good too specially with the sarcastic characters.
My favorite books and characters from her Straight Guys series are:
Derek Rutledge
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Roman Demidov
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Logan McCall
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I am finishing to read her last book and I am charmed with Raffaele Carrera and how he started to ahow his emotions to Nate.
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I also like her other series The Wrong Alpha
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I wish Straight Guys series were adapted for television. That would be fantastic.
 
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Has somebody read Alessandra Hazard's novels? I love her way of describing every erotic moment without missing any detail. And the humor is good too specially with the sarcastic characters.
My favorite books and characters from her Straight Guys series are:
Derek Rutledge
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Roman Demidov
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Logan McCall
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I also like her other series The Wrong Alpha
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I wish Straight Guys series were adapted for television. That would be fantastic.
I appreciate your enthusiasm for the series! I might have to take a read...
 
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Not only is Anne Tenino a top-flight author of college themed M/M romance, she is also an avid expert in the art of penis crochet!

Check out this Instagram post devoted to her (literal!) yarns:

X-rated Crochet
 
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Anyone who reads "Fratboy and Toppy" one of his Ms. Tenino's best books, will agree with me that women can be sympathetic writers and interpreters of the gay college boy experience:

X-rated Crochet
 
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I have really enjoyed Daisy Harris' "Men of Holsum College" series. Excellent books, great insights into college boy psychology.


I like the first book "College boys" and the last book "My Fair Dork", especially...
 
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Regarding Ms. Daisy Harris' "Men of Holsum College" series. I know some people may object to gay male stories being voices by a woman, but I think she tells these young guys' stories with great care and compassion.

She also has a preternatural ability to get inside men's brains! That's a really rare attribute. Most writers cannot visualise or articulate the opposite sex, but she does that really well. She portrays young men in all their innocence, awkwardness and hidden tenderness.

I also like how well she captures men's internal monologues, especially in relation to forbidden desires, like when Owen (In "My Fair Dork") thinks, "Ten inches? Twelve inches? And uncut, too. Geez." The "Geez" part was perfect as I remember many 'Geez' moments in my own life where I saw this wonderful male beauty that I would try to banish from my mind or push away. "Geez" is Owen's expression of a desire he won't fully admit he has.

Men at that age still think in hazy generalities, which is why Harold keeps using the word "mostly" like in "mostly hard to granite" or "mostly pointed down". Young men usually aren't very verbal and she portrays their often losing struggle to express themselves in words. That might be why men are so sexual, as sex is (an often overlooked) powerful peacemaking tool between men, and also sex is a way of expressing oneself that bypasses language.

I'm a handicapped man with some congenital disfigurements so for me dating and romance are out of the question. I've accepted that, and am fine with it (mostly). Her books, and the works of a few select m/m writers, help to fill that gap in my life.