 | Now and Then by William Corlett
Buy used from: £0.01 Boarding school crush that affects the narrator's life forever. Beautiful and poignant.
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 | Clay's Way by Blair Mastbaum
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £2.29 Skateboarder becomes obsessed with a sexually ambiguous surfer boy. Brilliantly written, highly emotive, stream of consciousness-style.
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 | Maurice (Penguin Classics) by E.M. Forster
Buy new: £5.34 / Used from: £2.80 A classic. Forbidden love in pre-WW1 England raising issues of class and society.
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 | A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice
Buy used from: £0.01 Gripping, well constructed tale about four young friends torn apart by betrayal, rape, vengeance and death.
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 | Latter Days : a Novel, Based on the Screenplay by C. Jay Cox
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £1.69 Moving work tracking the evolving relationship between a brain-washed Mormon missionary and a beautiful, promiscuous LA waiter.
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 | The World of Normal Boys by K.M. Soehnlein
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £1.81 Coming-of-age in 1970s America. Sexual awakening, lust, guilt, the sensation of ostracism from the world of 'normal boys'.
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 | The Big Book of Misunderstanding by Jim Gladstone
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £1.37 The awkwardness and self-discovery of childhood amidst the pressures of family life.
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 | My Loose Thread by Dennis Cooper
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £3.99 Dennis Cooper must be experienced. Nihilistic American teens wrapped up in depression, violence, rape, incest, self-hatred. Unique.
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 | Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Of course. The whole series.
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 | Shameless by Paul Burston
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.06 Entertaining, amusing, light-hearted read about a disparate group of friends plunging into the London clubs and drugs life.
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 | Moab is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Incredibly witty, sharp and at times poignant semi-autobiographical account of Stephen Fry's early school years.
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 | The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy used from: £0.01 Edgy work encapsulating the nihilism of students in vacuous and materialistic 1980s America.
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 | Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Buy used from: £4.48 Contemporary work about modern high school teenagers, in an bizarre world where being gay is not an issue and the high school quarterback is also a full on drag queen!
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 | The Swimming-pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.00 Brilliantly written, contemporary gay British literature examining the search for substance in gay life.
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 | A Son Called Gabriel by Damian McNicholl
Buy used from: £2.40 Moving Irish novel dealing with the themes of adolescence, sexual discovery and coming-of-age.
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 | Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children by Felice Picano
Buy used from: £8.08 Classic story of growing up in 1950s America. Brutally honest and evocative of timeless childhood emotions.
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 | All American Boy by William J. Mann
Buy new: £15.99 / Used from: £2.50 Excellent, intriguing and thought-provoking novel about the conjunction of the past and the future.
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 | The Confusions of Young Torless (Penguin 20th Century Classics) by Robert Musil
Buy new: £5.29 / Used from: £3.50 Now 100 years old, this novel still appeals with its insight into the natural cruelty of humankind.
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 | A Boy's Own Story (Picador Books) by Edmund White
Buy used from: £0.01 Classic work by Edmund White about a boy growing up in 1950s America. Narrator is not particularly likeable, but that makes for a more authentic read.
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 | New Boy by William Sutcliffe
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Extremely amusing, light-hearted read dealing with sexual confusion in a London school. One of the funniest novels you'll ever read.
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 | Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £1.96 Honest easy read about a 16 year old 'behind enemy lines' in high school (the locker-room). The sequel, 'Order of the Poison Oak', should also be read.
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 | In the Absence of Men by Phillipe Besson
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.14 Moving tale; set in 1916 France, a privileged boy discovers love for the first time with a young French soldier.
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 | The Boys on the Rock (Stonewall Inn Editions) by John Fox
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £2.09 Fresh coming-of-age novel with excellent characterisation.
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 | Embrace by Mark Behr
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £4.57 Complex, challenging and authentic; a boy growing up in South Africa.
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 | Brothers. Life, death, truth (Collins Flamingo) by Ted Van Lieshout
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Highly emotive work about a teenage boy communicating with his dead brother, and in doing so coming to terms with himself and his brother's death.
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