Was wondering if anyone has any decent gay fiction books they’d like to recommend?
I loved ‘Hero’ by Perry Moore and actually got in contact with him on facebook =)

Check out “Jane Bites Back” by Michael Thomas Ford.  It’s not a gay book per se, but the author is gay and has won numerous Lambda Literary Awards.  In the book, Jane Austen is alive and well and living as a vampire in New York, running a small bookstore incognito.  Her last manuscript was just rejected for the 112th time when a mysterious stranger from her past arrives.  It’s funny, a quick read, and pokes a lot of fun at current vampire fiction and the Jane Austen craze.

while i am almost 30 (eek haha) i still love me my young adult novels! here are some that i have read:

A Really Nice Prom Mess by Brian Sloan: i really enjoyed this book, it was a fun read and i liked the characters.

Band Fags! by Frank Anthony Polito: this book was also a great read! an excellent coming of age story, but if i remember right i didn’t like the ending.

Geography Club by Bret Hartinger: Again, great read (but i love to read) and fun lots of great characters!

Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan: i think this one is one of my favorites! it is zany and crazy and fun and i wanted to live inside the book!

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13 great books for gay teens:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/19/13-great-books-for-gay-te_n_649606.html#s114142

A good source to scope out new gay literature is InsightOut Book Club: http://www.insightoutbooks.com/ . Of course, you have to read through book descriptions of nude pictorials, erotica and gay horror anthologies but you’re bound to find something that interests you. (Some of those nude pictorial descriptions offer Sneak Peeks. Nothing wrong with that!!)

Keep in mind, it’s a subscription based service. If you decide to buy directly from the site you have to eventually order a pre-set minimum like those old DVD clubs but they give you plenty of notice about ordering their featured selection every month and its all automated/online if you wish. Either way the website is a good place to find information about current books.

Besides that website, here are a couple of recommendations:

Hex: A Novel of Love Spells by Darieck Scott. It’s a fairly dense read but ultimately an intriguing story.

Anything by Christopher Rice. (I think he’s been recommended previously.) His novels usually feature a gay character or storyline but don’t seem gimmicky like some gay novels.

My book club (a real, in-person book club. not InsightOut) recently read Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by
Peter Cameron. A coming of age tale, of sorts, and the main character is admittedly flawed. But a layered story that I enjoyed.

My book club also read Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon. Sometimes a little too steeped in the insider politics of its time but I found the relationship between the two main characters fascinating.

I was also very eager to begin FBOTU’s latest book club selection, The Magician and The Fool. I’m behind schedule, but I’ve just started it and so far so good…

If you pick up a good read, be sure to let us all know!!

I got some decent books out of Insight Out, but it’s more useful as a guide than a catalog…you can usually get better deals on the books in there from Amazon or used book sellers.

I have a sentimental fondness for Edmund White’s trilogy of A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty and The Farewell Symphony.  And of course I love E.M. Forster’s classic Maurice.

Haven’t read any new stuff, but can recommend anything by Ethan Mordden, especially The Venice Adriana and his “buddies” short story compilations :  I’ve a Feeling We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: Tales from Gay Manhattan (1985), which was followed by Buddies (1986), and Everybody Loves You: Further Adventures of Gay Manhattan (1988).  I also like some books by Robert Rodi and all the old Tales of the City books.  Thanks for posting all the suggestions I have gotten out of the habit of gay literature.