Book recommandations: story with gay character

[bicause]

Hi!

Can you recommend some good books with one (or more) gay characters.
Fiction, crime, fantasy, whatever.
Not a gay erotic book, although a lovestory with some sex would be nice of course.

Thanks for your help

bicause

 

[Maklaar13]

Have you heard of the one called "The Front Runner", by Patricia Neill Warren, I think. It is a great book with a great love story.

 

[NomineDetracto]

The Married Man by Edmund White

 

[jimm04]

"The Sluts" written by Dennis Cooper

http://www.denniscooper.net/thesluts.htm

 

[matt1980111]

'Almost Like Being In Love' by Steven Klugger

 

[FirmaFan]

Well, as my screen name says, "Firma" refers to the "chronicles of Firma" by Pat Nelson Childs. Great if you like fantasy. Also, Dream Boy is another personal favorite.

 

[jimm04]

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, another must read !

 

[scains]

There's a fantasy story where the hero is gay it's called The Steel Remains by Richard Morgan.

 

[Gomaki]

I work in a big box book store. It's hard to find much gay related stuff in my store. However, there is a surprising amount of teen gay-related books. I remember one called "Hero", where the main character has super powers and is gay.

 

[bostonboy20]

The Screwed Up Life of Charlie The Second by Drew Ferguson

Just finished it...it was a great book...really witty

also Josh Kilmer-Purcell's two books "Candy Everybody Wants" and "I Am Not Myself These Days"

 

[Shadowclad86]

I remember one called "Hero", where the main character has super powers and is gay.

"Hero" by Perry Moore

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[subfer1]

Look for Christopher Rice, his books are great, they have some degree of romance (the first and second) and they are mistery/crime oriented, great books!

 

[Linxus87]

I recommend checking out this article, which was a poll AfterElton performed taken by the readers of AE on the top 50 gay-themed books:
http://www.afterelton.com/print/2008/11/bestgaybooks

Books I recommend are:
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman (I believe that's right)

The Coming Storm by Paul Russell

and if you're more into teen novels, then

A Secret Edge by Robin Reardon

Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsberg

Also, if you haven't heard of it before, InsightOut Books is a gay book club with a large selection, and very easy membership requirements (buy three books after your initial 4 for a buck each sign up deal within three years):
http://www.insightoutbooks.com

 

[TickTockMan]

Hi!

Can you recommend some good books with one (or more) gay characters.
Fiction, crime, fantasy, whatever.
Not a gay erotic book, although a lovestory with some sex would be nice of course.

Thanks for your help

bicause

A great book worth reading is Vintage. It is a ghost story and well written.

http://www.insightoutbooks.com/doc/...CFGQ?repositoryId=712163B124&_requestid=33706

If you're just looking for things to read I can recommend a few online stories that have kept me content over the years. They are all well written and gay or bi themed. Let me know and I will put a list together.

 

[unloadonme]

Try Alan Hollinghurst. I've enjoyed all four of his novels. The fourth, The Line of Beauty, was filmed by the BBC and is out on DVD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hollinghurst

 

[ZeroPoint84]

Maurice, by E M Forster, is great. As is Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin.
ooh and also At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill.

 

[Devy25]

You should check out The Catch Trap by Marion Zimmer Bradley; its about about a boy who joins a family of trapeze artist and has a secret relationship with the star in the 1940's. I first read it when I was just discovering my sexuality around ten or eleven and it was one of the first books I found that didn't have the stereotypical gay characters in it.

 

[jd0711]

Two that I read recently and really enjoyed were "Major Conflict" by Jeffrey McGowan and "The Trouble Boy" by Tom Dolby.

 

[krfflyer]

"As Meat Loves Salt", by Maria McCann. Excellent book, set during the Revolution in England, mid-1600's.
Also, "At Swim, Two Boys" by Jamie O'Neill. Another great book, set in Ireland during the Easter Uprising.
If you can't tell, I kind of have a thing for historical fiction.

 

[neoachilles]

Try reading Wraeththu by Storm Constantine.