 | The Married Man by Edmund White
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £0.01 The Married Man- My Favourite author, Beautiful evocative and I can guarantee you will encounter this in your life!
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 | Arkansas by David Leavitt
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.01 Americana at its best- Brief but superbly written look at suburban American Gaydom
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 | Sebastian's Tangibles by Anthea Ingham
Buy used from: £0.01 Yes from deliverers of adult material! Yet actually superbly evocative of the past, and not really porn! Probably not something to give your mum for xmas though
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 | Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
Buy new: £6.40 / Used from: £2.21 The AIDS epidemic at its worst- I know you think its over, but please get ANGRY at this and dont forget
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 | The Evening Crowd at Kirmser'S: Gay St. Paul in the 1940s by Ricardo J. Brown
Buy new: £32.00 / Used from: £4.99 Ok its history, but from a first person perspective this is the best view of 40s america you'll get- charming and personal
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 | Now Batting for Boston: More Stories by J. G. Hayes by J.G. Hayes
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £10.81 Again Americana - but they do it best, Gritty and kinda sexy stuff
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 | The Year of Ice by Brian Malloy
Buy new: £7.59 / Used from: £1.77 Not another growing up novel! Well yes, but the best ive seen. Good Beach read. but isnt goint to stretch you too much
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 | Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
Buy new: £11.06 / Used from: £0.27 If youve got a 12 year old cousin you think is gay (or a homophobe) give him this. Its Enid Blyton for the Gay Generation exploding beneath us!
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 | Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
Buy used from: £1.29 ..and when hes 15 give him this- its beverley hills 90210 for gays but its POSITIVE, and frankly we need that
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 | Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £0.01 Paul Monette- Sadly missed - and this is his epitaph of growing up as a gay man. An entire life in words and totally beautiful.
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 | Edmund White: the Burning World by Stephen Barber
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £1.67 Ive put Edmund Whites Biography in here because you NEED to read his entire canon from Nocturnes for the King of Naples upwards. This is just essential background
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 | All American Boy by William J. Mann
Buy new: £15.99 / Used from: £2.50 This is here for the entire works of William J Mann, again you need to read the lot. Not his best book but a future gay classic- also you MUST read Wisecracker his biog of Billy Haines,
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 | Desert Sons by Mark Kendrick
Buy new: £7.20 / Used from: £4.50 Not so much growing up gay as teenage gay, again an essential read for anyone 16-19
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