Kept Boy
10 best books like Kept Boy (Robert Rodi): More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Openly Straight, The Edible Woman, Lyra's Oxford, North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both, Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall, Physical, Nightswimmer
A surreal sequel to the first volume of the series, More Tales of the City heightens the stakes of the original: mystery, romance, and drama now feature even more prominently in the intertwining storylines of the residents of 28 Barbary Lane. Maupin established his characters' personalities and their...
Further Tales of the City
| Author | Armistead Maupin |
| ISBN | 0552998788 |
It took me 21 months to read this third volume. When Maupin comes up with a totally unbelievable plot line involving a resurrected Jim Jones, his kidnapping of two four-year-old children from an Alaskan cruise and then perhaps through Little Diomedes (a US island) to Big Diomedes (a Russian island)...
| Author | Armistead Maupin |
| ISBN | 0552998796 |
The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier Tales of the City books with love and laughter are at it again, as an ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a grieving gay...
| Author | Bill Konigsberg |
| ISBN | 0545509890 |
The award-winning novel about being out, being proud, and being ready for something else . . . now in paperback.
Rafe is a normal teenager from Boulder, Colorado. He plays soccer. He's won skiing prizes. He likes to write.
And, oh yeah, he's gay. He's been out since 8th grade, and he isn't...
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
| ISBN | 0385491069 |
Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancé and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion. Marriage a la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach......
| Author | Philip Pullman |
| ISBN | 0375828192 |
"Everything means something," Lyra said severely. "We just have to find out how to read it."
I finished His Dark Materials (maybe better known as The Golden Compass trilogy) this summer for the second time and finally turned to this short story sequel, set in Lyra’s home after her travels,...
North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
| Author | Cea Sunrise Person |
| ISBN | 0062289861 |
Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person’s compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness—a searing story of physical, emotional, and psychological survival.
In the late...
| Author | Neil Bartlett |
| ISBN | 1852427051 |
A deeply romantic evocation of gay life, this stunning first novel by celebrated British gay writer Neil Bartlett gives a tender, erotic, brutally explicit portrayal of love between men. In a dark corner of the best bar in the city, two lovers fall into each other's arms. The bar has been called many names,...
| Author | Andrew McMillan |
| ISBN | 0224102133 |
Raw and urgent, these poems are hymns to the male body – to male friendship and male love – muscular, sometimes shocking, but always deeply moving. We are witness here to an almost religious celebration of the flesh: a flesh vital with the vulnerability of love and loss, to desire and its departure....
| Author | Joseph Olshan |
| ISBN | 0425176614 |
In this brilliant literary mosaic centered around a love affair, acclaimed novelist Joseph Olshan explores the intense pressures and passions of gay life in New York City during the AIDS epidemic
Ten years ago, Will Kaplan and his lover went for a night swim in the Pacific Ocean—but only...
| Author | Christopher Rice |
| ISBN | 1477826645 |
Four childhood friends in present-day New Orleans are torn apart by envy, passion, and a secret murder.
Five years ago, Meredith, Brandon, Greg, and Stephen quickly discover the fragile boundaries between friendship and betrayal as they enter high school and form new allegiances. Meredith,...
