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If only we'd had these books back in Highschool! The books on this page are generally about gay teenagers, coming out and the thoughts, feelings and emotions we all felt when we were young and first coming to terms with our sexual identity. We'll be adding more gay teenage novels as time goes by - if you have any to recommend, please email us!

These books are available from Canada, the UK and from the USA - click on any flag for further reviews or to purchase. You can now click through any author's name to view a list of all their titles - meaning we always have the very latest book by your favorite author!

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	All Books by A.M. Homes - Author of : Jack (Vintage Contemporaries) Paperback - 220 pages Reprint edition (September 1990) Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679732217 "Gay Young Adult Fiction Books; Jack is a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal - even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack's father takes him rowing on a lake and tells his son that he's gay, nothing will ever be normal again." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Adam Klein - Author of : The Medicine Burns: And Other Stories Paperback (August 1995) Serpents Tail; ISBN: 1852424036 "Young Adult Gay Fiction; This collection of stories about gay men aim to shed light on the role of the outsider in a society obsessed with beauty and sex. Klein's protagonists have acne, they have club feet, they are drag queens, and in some cases, they have AIDS." Click to buy this book in USA, UK:
	All Books by S. Joseph Krol - Author of : Northridge High Football Camp Reading level: Young Adult Paperback - 224 pages (March 1996) Heretic Books; ISBN: 0854492259 "Young Adult Gay Fiction; A brash but sensitive young adult novel set in the all-male world of football camp. gay men - fiction" Click to buy this book in USA, UK:
	All Books by Brian Malloy - Author of : The Year of Ice Hardcover: 262 pages (July 2002) St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0312289480 "Young Adult Gay Fiction; It's 1978 and a typical January day in Minnesota's Twin Cities - except for Kevin Doyle, whose mother died two years ago when her car plunged into the icy waters of the Upper Mississippi. A high school senior, Kevin is a marginal student obsessed with keggers, rock and roll, maintaining his place in the pecking order of high school males and - unbeknownst to anyone else - with a boy in his school with thick eyelashes and a bad attitude. In the past two years, Kevin's relationship with his father Patrick has grown increasingly distant and as lonely women vie for his father's attention, Kevin discovers Patrick's own closely guarded secret: at the time of his wife's death, he had planned to abandon his family for another woman. More disturbingly, his mother's death may well have been a suicide, not an accident. Fanning the flames of familial discontent is Kevin's Aunt Nora, a belligerent and fiercely religious Irish immigrant who has never liked her brother-in-law and blames him for the death of her sister. In the coming year, as Kevin struggles to negotiate the difference between his internal reality and his public persona, a series of painful truths and closely guarded secrets threatens to shatter the tentative bonds between father and son and wreak havoc on the lives of those nearest to them both." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Ben Neihart - Author of : Hey, Joe Paperback - 192 pages (28 February, 2000) Allison & Busby; ISBN: 0749004541 "Gay Young Adult Fiction; A gay teenager looking for love in Louisiana stumbles into a conspiracy to tamper with a verdict, in an atmospheric novel about New Orleans nightlife by an up-and-coming writer for The New Yorker." Click to buy this book in Canada, UK:
	All Books by Kirk Read - Author of : How I Learned to Snap Hardcover - 224 pages (June 1, 2001) Hill Street Press; ISBN: 1588180395 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "Kirk Read's youth in the Shenandoah Valley had the outward signs of a comfortable adolescence in the Reagan-era South. Dad: career military. Mom: a homemaker. Son: Little League/soccer player, Baptist youth group member, a straight-jawed boy from a long line of VMI men. One would expect that a young gay man growing up in such a way would lead a tortured teen life. But early Read began to show the surety and openness that has marked his later life and career as a young, queer journalist. Passing through the tough terrain of Bible Belt guilt and culturally ingrained sexual hypocrisy, Read acknowledged his difference first to those closest to him--with with expected doses of fag-baiting--and with acceptance from surprising corners. Read's skewed and skewered version of the holy trinity of American adolescence--sex, drugs, and rock and roll--is described in his unique voice: he became sexually active at a time when we were only just learning that sex can kill, began saying yes to drugs when Nancy Reagan were just saying no; and when underground music was still buried. It is a story of bold strokes (premiering a play about coming-out in high school while still in high school) and ironic misfires (he expected to ignite a firestorm by demanding that he take his same-sex date to the senior prom; instead his request was calmly okayed). Read's story is neither victim-based nor intended as a survival guide. It is not a radical call to action but a call to acceptance, with a Southern accent: "So much of gay Southern memoir has been so veiled in the shroud of first fiction that's its lost its sense of urgency. Or its been so literary that the queer content has been erased or relegated to the back in service to Gothic, poetically indirect costuming of hard realities," Read says. Ultimately, Read's is finally the story of every coming-of-age--heartbreaking, comic, tragic, and redemptive--and will be appreciated by everyone who, to quote Paul Goodman, grew up absurd in the 1980s." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Mark A. Roeder - Author of : Do You Know That I Love You : Boyband Paperback - 323 pages (July 2001) iUniverse.com; ISBN: 0595188273 "Young Adult Gay Fiction; The lead singer of the most popular boy band in the world has a secret. A tabloid willing to tell all turns his world upside down. Mark Roeder is quickly establishing himself as the writer for gay and questioning teens. In Do You Know That I Love You, Ralph, a young gay teen living on a farm in Indiana, has an aching crush on a rock star and wants nothing more than to see his idol in concert. Meanwhile, Jordan, the rock star, is lonely and sometimes confused with his success, because all he wants is someone to love him and feels he will never find the love he craves." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Mark A. Roeder - Author of : Someone Is Killing the Gay Boys of Verona Paperback - 268 pages (April 2000) iUniverse.com; ISBN: 059509113X "Young Adult Gay Fiction; Someone is killing the gay boys of Verona, Indiana, and only one gay youth stands in the way. He finds himself pitted against powerful foes, but finds allies in places he did not expect. Sixteen-year-old Sean sets out on a quest that takes him into the supernatural and beyond. A haunted mansion, gay ghosts, a cult of hate, and a hundred year old ax murder all await Sean as he races to discover the murderer 's identity before he strikes again. Someone is Killing the Gay Boys of Verona is a supernatural murder mystery that goes where no gay novel has set foot before. It is a tale of love, hate, friendship, and revenge." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Mark A. Roeder - Author of : Someone Is Watching Paperback - 256 pages (April 2000) iUniverse.com; ISBN: 158348616X "Young Adult Gay Fiction; It's hard hiding a secret. It's even harder keeping that secret when someone else knows. Someone is watching. Someone knows. It was a nightmare come true for seventeen year-old Ethan. It's hard hiding a secret. It's even harder keeping that secret when someone else knows. Who is the mysterious note-writer, the secret tormentor? Who is the enemy that hides among Ethan's friends and teammates? Who holds Ethan's secret over his head, threatening to destroy his entire world? Someone Is Watching is the story of a young high school wrestler who must come to terms with being gay. He struggles first with himself, then with an unknown classmate that hounds his every step. While struggling to discover the identity of his tormentor, Ethan must discover his own identity and learn to live his life as his true self. He must choose whether to give up what he wants the most, or face his greatest fear of all." Click to buy this book in USA, UK:
	All Books by Mark A. Roeder - Author of : Ancient Prejudice, Break to New Mutiny Paperback - 192 pages (December 1999) Writers Club Ltd; ISBN: 1583482067 "Young Adult Gay Fiction; This first novel explores the turbulent world of gay youth. Ancient Prejudice Break To New Mutiny is the story of Mark, a gay eighteen year old boy, who wants what we all want, to love and be loved. He finds that love in Taylor, a boy right out of his dreams. With the realization of his dreams however, Mark finds himself confronted with the non-acceptance of his peers. Both boys hide what they are, and their relationship, from a world that does not understand." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Alex Sanchez - Author of : Rainbow Boys Reading level: Young Adult School & Library Binding - 224 pages (October 2001) Simon & Schuster (Juv); ISBN: 0689841000 "Gay Young Adult Fiction Books; Jason Carrillo is a jock with a steady girlfriend, but he can't stop dreaming about sex...with other guys. Kyle Meeks doesn't look gay, but he is. And he hopes he never has to tell anyone -- especially his parents. Nelson Glassman is "out" to the entire world, but he can't tell the boy he loves that he wants to be more than just friends. Three teenage boys, coming of age and out of the closet. In a revealing debut novel that percolates with passion and wit, Alex Sanchez follows these very different high-school seniors as their struggles with sexuality and intolerance draw them into a triangle of love, betrayal, and ultimately, friendship. " Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by D. Travers Scott - Author of : Execution, Texas 1987 Amazon.co.uk Only Paperback - 224 pages Stonewall Inn (March 1999) St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0312198787 "Gay Young Adult Fiction Books; A sharply original coming-of-age story about a 17-year-old in the small town of Execution, Texas, whose struggles with his identity are complicated and complemented by those around him. This story introduces a startlingly original new voice that shows a depth and complexity of character, time, and place that far exceed expectations of a debut novel." Click to buy this book in Canada, UK:
	All Books by George Shannon - Author of : Unlived Affections Reading level: Young Adult Paperback Reprint edition (December 1995) Alyson Pubns; ISBN: 1555832997 "Gay Young Adult Fiction Books; Learning that your parents are human is hard enough. But, when you think your father was dead and he turns out to have been living another life elsewhere, your world can turn upside-down. After Willie's grandmother dies, he discovers a treasure trove of letters from his father to his mother. Gradually working his way through the one-sided history of his parents' relationship, he discovers that everybody has been lying to him. His father did not die as he was told he did. Instead, his father found love with another man. This compelling story about a young man discovering a father he never knew forces us to acknowledge the importance of the image we have of our own families." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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