Legacies of Love: A Heritage of Queer Bonding
A fascinating chronicle of historic lesbian and gay loves, this encyclopaedic book explores same-sex love affairs of the famous, such as Oscar Wilde, Rita Mae Brown, Martina Navratilova, Leonardo da Vinci, Alexander the Great, Freddie Mercury, Lawrence of Arabia and Danny Kaye. Here, readers will find same-sex love stories in all their splendour, crossing age and cultural barriers, from short-lived to long lasting, happy to tragic, tranquil to dangerous.

Buy Legacies of Love: A Heritage of Queer Bonding, edited by Winston Wilde.  

Best Gay Romance 2008
This is the gay romantic erotica anthology that truly delivers. In ‘Viva Las Vegas’, the narrator casts off his boy next door image when he descends the staircase of Caesar’s palace into the arms of a handsome stranger, becoming the romantic leading man he always dreamed he was. In the beautiful, nostalgic ‘Endless Against Amber’, a man recalls a long-ago summer romance, before adult life got in the way. Whether rowdy or tender, these tales celebrate romance and the possibility of happily ever after.

Buy Best Gay Romance 2008, edited by Richard Labonté.

Best Gay Love Stories: Summer Flings
Summertime is the perfect time for falling in love – and this year’s collection of gay erotica brings the allure of sandy beaches and late-night passion to its stories of gay romance. From coast to coast and everywhere in between, explore the spark of gay eroticism in these twenty-two tales of summer loving.

Buy Best Gay Love Stories: Summer Flings, edited by Brad Nichols.

Best Gay Erotica 2008
Whether you like it rough and surly, smooth and sultry, or quick and raw, you’ll find it in Best Gay Erotica 2008. Here are twenty of the hottest and best-written man-on-man sex stories to appear in print this year. In ‘Underground Operator’, two men on a nearly empty subway platform indulge in forceful, anonymous sex that lets them momentarily forget the stifling summer heat. ‘Donuts to Demons’ finds a self-described ‘rock'n'roll artfag’ searching for a lover.

Buy Best Gay Erotica 2008, edited by Richard Labonté.

Best Date Ever: True Stories that Celebrate Gay Relationships
Welcome to your Best Date Ever: In these twenty stirring, heartfelt, and often humorous pieces, experience the actual joys of dating: from celebratory birthdays and anniversaries, to those hesitant first dates and the lasting impressions of the men who have touched our lives. All the tales are first hand accounts of dates that have exploded into loving and lasting relationships – or – were simply fabulous one night stands.

Buy Best Date Ever: True Stories that Celebrate Gay Relationships, edited by Lawrence Schimel.

Best Lesbian Erotica 2008
Edited by Tristan Taormino and selected and introduced by novelist and dynamic Sister Spit performer Ali Liebegott, this latest edition of the best-selling lesbian erotica series is transgressive, inventive and sensual. In ‘The Storm Chasers’, the rain is not the only deluge when an Amish teen and her friends find refuge from a downpour. Two femme college students finally find each other in ‘Paradise’. ‘Sweet No More’ snarls, teases and toes the line between pleasure and pain. Best Lesbian Erotica 2008 features twenty-two well-crafted stories of erotic surprise that give off steam from all the girl-on-girl friction.

Buy Best Lesbian Erotica 2008, edited by Tristan Taormino.

Best Lesbian Love Stories: Summer Flings
Everyone loves to fall in love, and there’s no better time than summer. From languid, lazy days to sultry, humid nights, it’s not only the temperature that’s hot in this year’s edition of lesbian love stories that explore the passionate connection between women and women. This annual edition of lesbian erotica takes to the beach.

Buy Best Lesbian Love Stories: Summer Flings, edited by Simone Thorne.

Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2008
Lovely, lively, and alluring, the ladies who populate this year’s edition of the ever-popular Ultimate Lesbian Erotica series truly represent the ultimate in lesbian desire. In these twenty-five tales of love and lust, the authors unleash every type of woman and reveal their most secret sexual fantasies. This is a book that pushes your erotic boundaries and stimulates your senses.

Buy Ultimate Lesbian Erotica, edited by Nicole Foster.

Best Date Ever: True Stories that Celebrate Lesbian Relationships
This unique collection explores the notion of romance, inspiring couples to rekindle their love and promising the single and searching that not every date is over before it’s even begun. These twenty-two stories show a wide variety of special moments in women’s lives and relationships: from love at first sight to loves that are still enduring after many years together.

Best Date Ever: True Stories that Celebrate Lesbian Relationships, edited by Linda Alvarez.

if all of that erotica has got you in the mood then why not also buy The Gay Man's Karma Sutra or The Lesbian Karma Sutra and brush up on your technique.