Gay Books

A Density of Souls -- Christopher Rice
Magic's Pawn/Magic's Promise/Magic's Price -- Mercedes Lackey (trilogy)
Becoming A Man -- Paul Monette
How Long Has This Been Going On? -- Ethan Mordden
The World of Normal Boys -- K.M. Soehnlein

 

I wish I could read some of those. It's impossible to get them in Uruguay though.

 

Gosh, where do I start. Firstly, The Year of Ice is like the best book I've ever read, and I read a lot of them. The world of normal boys was amazing, it was about a lot more than just coming out.

Other Good Reads

Dream Boy
Half-Life by Aaron Krach
a really nice prom mess- by brian sloan
Boy Meets Boy
Boy Culture
Geography Club
Clay's Way

 

Man i wish i could get ahold of some of these

 

Maybe you can order them from Amazon, and get them delivered to a friend who knows?

 

Zomg the Rainow Boys series is actually really amazing. I got reading it when a friend of mine and I decided to trade books. He read Keeping You A Secret and I read the first Rainbow Boys book. And I liked it enough to read the next two. They're really good, I just skip the sex scenes when I reread them.
But some other really good books are:
Keeping You A Secret (girl falls in love with a new student who is really out and her whole world shifts)

Luna (A girl is the only one who knows her "brother" is really a girl and helps/ deal with her beginning to transition)

Between Mom and Jo (A boy with two moms deals with society and his family)

Far From Xanadu (Stereotypical lesbian in a really small town learns to handle her fathers suicide, sexuality and other issues when she falls for a straight city girl who moves to the town)

And they're all written by Julie Anne Peters. They're amazing. <3

 

I can't find them in the bookstore, but I'm sure they're great if they're like the Rainbow Boys books. Did you all find them in a bookstore or do I have to order them off Amazon?

 

Maybe my Borders just sucks and never orders any. I'd know if they did, I'm a nerd and there once a week. >.< Well stores will order books if you ask, won't they?

 

i get my library to order the books by Alex Sanchez and others i find and sound interesting...but never anything that's inappropriate for high school students, lol. (damn, no Dorm Porn, lol)

 

I love the rainbow boys books I read all three plus so hard to say I ordered them online.

 

I had to buy them since the library here is like books from the 80s, cheap straight romance novels and Bibles. But I hate libraries anyway (I have issues with parting with books I really like) so it's cool.
I think my school library was looking into ordering some gay youth books thanks to the principal, I'll see if any of his other books were amongst the order.
And if you liked his you really should look into Peters books, especially Keeping You a Secret. Everyone who liked his loved it too.

 

I WANT TO READ RAINBOW ROAD!!!!! T_T I asked the librarian if she could order it, and well, now i'm waiting. lol. I also read So Hard to Say. and I want to read The God Box and Getting It. she's gonna order em also. Oh! Have you read Geography Club? It's a good one also! I;m waiting till the librarian gets the sequel to it also.

 

ok, will look.

 

My friend was telling me about the Geography Club. He said it was amazing. But I can't find that anywhere either. I'll just end up ordering them all off Amazon or something.
And Rainbow Road was awesome. It got into a lot of the ups and downs of having a relationship. And I loved the ending. Rainbow High was my favourite though. I was actually really nervous and such when Jason was telling his basketball team.

 

I don't mean to generalize, but the books I've read of this "genre" are a little, well, superficial. I mean...they don't have much character development or engrossing storylines.
Of course, I'm not implying that every book should have characters like Prince Myshkin (whom I obsessively fangirl) or -- to a lesser degree -- Yossarian, but I just think that "gay books" should be a little more substantial than just the simple "crush-on-older-sibling's-best-friend" coming out story. A character can be gay without making his sexuality the focal point of the story.

So...are there any other good gay novels?

(I apologize if I've unintentionally demeaned anyone's reading preference. This is just my opinion. And also...Prince Myshkin and Yossarian are not from gay books. A guy can imagine, though, right? Well, not so much with Yossarian.)

 

To add to the list . . .

For those looking for young adult teen fiction, here are some recommendations:

Alex Sanchez's Rainbow Trilogy has already been mentioned, he does have two other books out, So Hard to Say and Getting It, with another to be released in Oct. called The God Box.

I saw that Geography Club had been mentioned. Brent Hartinger is the author of that book. There are also two sequels to that one, The Order of the Poison Oak and Attack of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies. He also has a couple of other books which have gay characters, one is titled Last Chance Texaco. He has a website with some good information, and his partner Michael Jensen is also a writer, but I haven't read any of his work.

Julie Anne Peters was also mentioned though most of her books are lesbian oriented, except for Luna which features an intersexed teen. I have a friend who is intersexed who adored Luna. I like her work, and she's a very neat lady.

Sara Ryan's Empress of the World was also a great book, but again lesbian oriented.

Nancy Garden has several gay/lesbian themed novels. Annie on my Mind has become something of a classic and was recently reprinted. The Year They Burned the Books is also a good one where homosexuality is sort of a side theme.

James Howe, author of the Bunnicula books, has one called Totally Joe that's geared toward younger readers. It's a fun, and often funny book about being oneself rather than coming out.

Bart Yates has a more mature book, Leave Myself Behind, which is something of a thriller and also has a romance involved. He has another book The Brothers Bishop which deals with some very mature themes and I didn't enjoy as much as his first book.

Brian Sloan has Tale of Two Summers and A Really Nice Prom Mess. I've read the first one, but not the second. The first one is kind of funny about two friends, one of whom happens to be gay.

There are a lot of good books for teens out there, you just have to search a little for them.

For those who were looking for more "adult" type stories:

For just a fun fluffy read, and because I happened to like the cast of characters, Timothy James Beck has several books that are romances about characters, both gay and straight. These aren't coming out stories, per se.

M. J. Pearson has a couple of gay regencies, The Price of Temptation and Discreet Young Gentleman. I enjoyed them both. They might have to be ordered from Amazon since they are published by a small press.

I recommend anything by Colm Toibin, though his books are not young adult oriented. The Blackwater Lightship had me crying through the whole book. The Story of the Night is a very good read. I wasn't as impressed with The Master, which is about 19th century writer Henry James.

A hard to find, though it is being reprinted, recommendation is the Loon series by Richard Amory. Song of the Loon is the first book. I found the reprint at my local Borders. It's about mountain men and native americans in a sort of utopic world, but a great read.

Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain is a good, if sad, read.

If interested in "classic" literature then try, Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, Oscar Wilde, Mary Renault, David Leavitt.

Here is a list of books that are considered "Classics." There are a lot more, depending on interests.

http://jclarkmedia.com/gaybooks/recommended.html

 

Ok, heres a step by step way to get any book you want from your local borders. This is for the people who dont know this way.

1. Find your local borders....http://www.bordersstores.com/locator/locator.jsp

2.Then type in your book name or whatever and make sure to search the entire inventory

3. Then in the top right corner there should be a a box that says AVAILABLE IN STORE- Yes or No...if its yes, then obviously its in, lol. But if not there should be an icon below it that says RESERVE FOR IN-STORE PICKUP. Click that and then fill out the information.

4. Now, in about 4-5 days someone will call to tell you its in...if ur not out and dont want ur parents to know I recommend using ur cell. If you dont have a cell theres also a red borders card that will come in the mail with your name on it and the name of the book.

5. Take the card to the front desk and your book should be there with ur name on it.

Now I know it can be kinda scary to go up there and ask for the book because I know it was for me. But it literally takes about 2 seconds. But I guess that depends on the person behind the counter. But when you use this way, in my opinion its a lot easier to just go up there and get it instead of searching through the Book section labeled GAY. But its all left up to you. I just thought this would be an easy way to get the book your looking for without searching for it. I've used it loads of times. Its how I've gotten most of my books.Hope I've helped!