How I Learned to Snap: A Small-Town Coming-Out and Coming-Of-Age Story
9 best books like How I Learned to Snap: A Small-Town Coming-Out and Coming-Of-Age Story (Kirk Read): I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip., A Boy's Own Story, Geography Club, Dream Boy, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, Teahouse of the Almighty, The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court, The Boys on the Rock, Alien III
| Author | John Donovan |
| ISBN | 0738721344 |
The 40th anniversary edition of a groundbreaking teen classic When the grandmother who raised him dies, Davy Ross, a lonely thirteen-year-old boy, must move to Manhattan to live with his estranged mother. Between alcohol-infused lectures about her self-sacrifice and awkward visits with his distant...
| Author | Edmund White |
| ISBN | 0375707409 |
Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality. The book's unnamed narrator, growing up during the 1950s, is beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless...
| Author | Brent Hartinger |
| ISBN | 0060012234 |
I knew that any wrong action, however slight, could reveal my true identity...
Russel is still going on dates with girls. Kevin would do anything to prevent his teammates on the baseball team from finding out. Min and Terese tell everyone they're really just good friends. But after a while,...
| Author | Jim Grimsley |
| ISBN | 0684829924 |
Some books don't deserve ratings. Not because they're just that bad, but because a number cannot encapsulate everything found within their bindings. Dream Boy, for me, is one of those books - what I liked about it is also what prevented me from loving it fully.
First published over ten years...
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
| Author | Paul Monette |
| ISBN | 0060595647 |
A child of the 1950s from a small New England town, "perfect Paul" earns straight A's and shines in social and literary pursuits, all the while keeping a secret -- from himself and the rest of the world. Struggling to be, or at least to imitate, a straight man, through Ivy League halls of privilege and bohemian...
| Author | Patricia Smith |
| ISBN | 1566891930 |
A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders.
“What power. Smith’s poetry is all poetry. And visceral. Her poems get under the skin of their subjects. Their passion and empathy, their real worldliness, are blockbuster.”—Marvin Bell
“I was...
| Author | Jeffrey Toobin |
| ISBN | 0449013677 |
From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration.
From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack...
| Author | John Fox |
| ISBN | 0312104332 |
Written with uncanny precision and wild humor, this is the story of Billy Connors, high school student in the Bronx, member of the swim team, and all-around regular guy, who in his sixteenth year has to face the fact that he's a little different from everyone else, a little "weird."
Though he's...
Audible is bringing William Gibson’s uncovered Alien III script to life in audio for the first time, to mark the 40th Anniversary of the birth of the Alien franchise.
Alongside a full cast, Michael Biehn and Lance Henriksen reprise their iconic roles as Corporal Hicks and Bishop from the...
