In my process of coming out I found great pleasure in reading novels having a gay theme or character. Over the years I have been slowly building a library of such books. The following is a list of many of these novels (I have left the real graphic - - i.e. porn -- books out) which I have enjoyed over the years. I hope that all of you find this list of interest and that I have correctly characterized each. Being a gay male, most of these are male oriented (my apologies to the women readers). I have starred the ones that I enjoyed the most and highly recommend. Happy reading! Comedy: _A Man of Taste_, Clayton Graham _Franny, the Queen of Provincetown_, John Preston _Gardy and Erin_, Jeff Black _Joe and The Show Queen_, Larry Howard _Moritz_, Bob Herron ** _The Best Little Boy in the World, ??? _The Misadventures of Tim McPick_, Daniel Curzon Coming Out and/or Teen Age Love: ** _A Boy's Own Story_, Edmund White ** _A Catholic Education_, Robert Benard _Act Well Your Part_, Don Sakers _All American Boys_, Frank Mosca _Changing Pitches_, Steve Kluger _Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada_, Keith Hale ** _Consenting Adult_, Laura Hobson _CounterPlay_, Anne Snyder _Danny_, Margaret Sturgis _Jigsaw_, Geoffrey Linden _Home Boy_, Jimmy Chesire ** _Independence Day_, B.A. Ecker ** _More than Friends_, Ruth Turk _Night Kites_, M.E. Kerr ** _Reflections of a Rock Lobster_, Aaron Fricke _Second Nature_, Gordon Glasco ** _Special Teachers/Special Boys_, Pete Fisher and Marc Rubin _St. Mick_, Jack Challenge _The Boys on the Rock_, John Fox _The Colour of his Hair_, David Rees ** _The Man Without a Face_, Isabelle Holland _The Milkman's on His Way_, David Rees _The World can Break your Heart_ _The Wind and the Flame_, Emily Hanlon _Tomcat_, Thom Racina ** _Trying Hard to Hear You_, Sandra Scoppettone Documentary/Historial: _Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives_, Howard Brown _Kings Don't Mean a Thing_, Arthur Bell ** _The Boston Sex Scandal_, Mitzel _The Hustler_, John Mackay ** _The Men with the Pink Triangle_, Heinz Heger ** _The Sexual Outlaw_, John Rechy General: _A Comforable Corner_, Vincent Virga ** _A Day and a Night at the Baths_, Michael Rumaker _A History of Shadows_, Robert Reinhart _A Man of Taste_, Clayton Graham _Be Discreet_, Paul Galle ** _Boys of Life_, Paul Russell _Casey: The Bi-coastal Kid_, Jim Brogan ** _City of Night_, John Rechy _Cold Hands_, Joseph Pintauro ** _Dancer from the Dance_, Andrew Holleran _David Sterne_, Marie-Claire Blais _Eighty-sixed_, David Feinberg _Enemy_, Robin Maugham _Faggots_, Larry Kramer _Haakon_, C.F. Griffin _Less Than Zero_, Bret Ellis _Night in Aruba_, Andrew Holleran ** _Numbers_, John Rechy _Paradise Gardens_, Donald Olson ** _Puppies_, John Valentine _Radcliffe_, David Storey _Rushes_, John Rechy ** _Sticks and Stones_, Lynn Hall _Streetboy Dreams_, Kevin Esser _Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll_, Paul Monette _The Baggy Kneed Camel Blues_, Daniel McVay _The Beauty Queen_, Patricia Nell Warren _The Blue Star_, Robert Ferro ** _The Boy who Picked the Bullets Up_, Charles Nelson _The Catch Trap_, Marion Bradley _The Family of Max Derir_, Robert Ferro _The Fancy Dancer_, Patricia Nell Warren _The Fourth Angel_, John Rechy _The Gold Diggers_, Paul Monette _The Movie Lover_, Richard Friedel ** _The Salt Point_, Paul Russell _The Story of Harold_, Terry Andrews _The Symposium: An Entertainment_, Geoffrey Simm _The Wings of the Phoenix_, Florine De Veer _The Wolf_, Marie-Claire Blais _Two People_, Donald Windham _Uncle_, Julia Markus _Wingmen_, Ensan Case Historial Novels: _Fire from Heaven_, Mary Renault _The Last of the Wine_, Mary Renault ** _The Persian Boy, Mary Renault Lesbian Theme: _Faultline_, Sheila Taylor ** _Rubyfruit Jungle_, Rita Mae Brown Murder Mystery: _A Body to Dye For_, Grant Michaels _A Brother's Touch_, Owen Levy _A Queer Kind of Death_, George Baxt _Adrenaline_, James Dillinger _Canary_, Nathan Aldyne _Cruising_, Gerald Walker _Doing Business_, Jeremy Beadle _Not a Stranger_, John Feegel ** _Seth_, Roy Wood _Sex Life_, Bruce Cook ** _Slade_, Nathan Aldyne ** _The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning_, Joseph Hansen _The Dancer's Death_, Phil Davis _The Man Everybody was Afraid Of_, Joseph Hansen _The Ride_, John Wainwright _The 600 Pound Gorilla_, Robert Campbell _Troublemaker_, Joseph Hansen _Vermilion_, Nathan Aldyne Mythology: ** _An Asian Minor_, Felice Picano Scary Futuristic: _Project Lambda_, Paul O'M. Welles _Queer Free_, Alabama Birdstone Short Stories: _Aphrodisiac, fiction from Christopher Street_ _Couplings_, Richard Hall _Somewhere in the Night_, Jeffrey McMahan _The Boys in the Bars_, Christopher Davis _The Revolt of the Perverts_, Daniel Curzon