List of gay male teen novels

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This is a list of gay male teen fiction books.

## Books

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Title  | Author  | Country  | Published  | Film  | Awards  | References

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A Question of Manhood | Robin Reardon | United States | 2010  |  |  |
A Secret Edge | Robin Reardon | United States | 2007  |  |  |
Absolutely, Positively Not | David LaRochelle  |  | 2005  |  |  |
Angry Management | Chris Crutcher | United States | 2009  |  |  |
Another Kind of Cowboy | Susan Juby | Canada | 2007  |  |  |
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | United States | 2012  | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe |  |
Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | United States | 2021  |  |  |
As You Wish | Jackson Pearce | United States | 2010  |  |  |
At Swim, Two Boys | Jamie O'Neill | Ireland | 2001  |  |  |
Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories | Chris Crutcher | United States | 1991  |  |  |
Baby Be-Bop | Francesca Lia Block | United States | 1995  |  |  |
Boy Meets Boy | David Levithan | United States | 2003  |  |  |
Boyfriends with Girlfriends | Alex Sánchez | United States | 2011  |  |  |
Call Me by Your Name | André Aciman | United States | 2007  | Call Me by Your Name (2017)  | Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction winner[1] |
Dance on My Grave | Aidan Chambers | United Kingdom | 1982  |  |  |
Drama Queers! | Frank Anthony Polito  |  | 2009  |  | Lambda Literary Award for Gay Romance winner[2] |
Dramarama | E. Lockhart | United States | 2007  |  |  |
Dream Boy | Jim Grimsley | United States | 1995  | Dream Boy (2008)  |  |
Eight Seconds | Jean Ferris | United States | 2000  |  |  |
Geography Club | Brent Hartinger | United States | 2003  | Geography Club (2013)  |  |
Getting It | Alex Sánchez | United States | 2006  |  |  |
Hello, I Lied | Marijane Meaker | United States | 1997  |  |  |
Hero | Perry Moore | United States | 2007  |  |  |
I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip | John Donovan | United States | 1969  |  |  |
Impulse | Ellen Hopkins | United States | 2007  |  |  |
Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale | Holly Black | United States | 2007  |  |  |
Kiss | Jacqueline Wilson | United Kingdom | 2007  |  |  |
My Most Excellent Year | Steve Kluger | United States | 2008  |  |  |
Openly Straight | Bill Konigsberg | United States | 2013  |  |  |
Out of the Pocket | Bill Konigsberg | United States | 2008  |  | Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature winner[3] |
Popular | Gareth Russell | United Kingdom | 2011  |  |  |
Proxy | Alex London | United States | 2013  |  |  |
Red, White & Royal Blue | Casey McQuiston | United States | 2019  | Red, White & Royal Blue (2023)  | Goodreads 2019 Best Romance

and Best Debut Novel[4]

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda | Becky Albertalli | United States | 2015  | Love, Simon (2018)  |  |
So Hard to Say | Alex Sánchez | United States | 2004  |  | Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature winner[5] |
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You | Peter Cameron  | United States | 2007  | Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011)  | Ferro-Grumley Award winner  |
Something Like Summer | Jay Bell | United States | 2011  | Something Like Summer (2017)  |  |
Son of a Witch | Gregory Maguire | United States | 2005  |  |  |
Sprout | Dale Peck | United States | 2009  |  |  |
Suicide Notes | Michael Thomas Ford | United States | 2008  |  |  |
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea | Shyam Selvadurai | Canada | 2005  |  | Lambda Literary Award winner  |
The Athenaeum | Raul Pompeia | Brazil | 1888  |  |  | [6][7]
The Boys on the Rock | John Fox | United States | 1984  |  |  |
The City Beautiful | Aden Polydoros  | United States | 2021  |  | Sydney Taylor Book Award winner[8] |
The Evolution of Ethan Poe | Robin Reardon | United States | 2011  |  |  |
The God Box | Alex Sánchez | United States | 2007  |  |  |
The Immaculate Deception | Gareth Russell | United Kingdom | 2012  |  |  |
The Man Without a Face | Isabelle Holland | United States | 1972  | The Man Without a Face (1993)  |  |
The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | United States | 1999  | The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)  |  |
The Revelations of Jude Connor | Robin Reardon | United States | 2013  |  |  |
The Sledding Hill | Chris Crutcher | United States | 2005  |  |  |
The Vast Fields of Ordinary | Nick Burd | United States | 2009  |  | Stonewall Book Award winner
Lambda Literary Award finalist  |
They Both Die at the End | Adam Silvera | United States | 2017  |  |  |
Thinking Straight | Robin Reardon | United States | 2008  |  |  |
This High School Has Closets | Robert Joseph Greene | Canada | 2012  |  |  |
Totally Joe | James Howe | United States | 2005  |  |  |
Two Boys Kissing | David Levithan | United States | 2013  |  |  |
Vintage: A Ghost Story | Steve Berman | United States | 2007  |  | Andre Norton Award finalist  |
War Boy | Thorn Kief Hillsbery | United States | 2000  |  |  |
What They Always Tell Us | Martin Wilson | United States | 2008  |  |  |
Will Grayson, Will Grayson | John Green and David Levithan | United States | 2010  |  |  |
Would You Mind? | Robert Joseph Greene | Canada | 2013  |  |  |
You Know Me Well | David Levithan and Nina LaCour  | United States | 2016  |  |  |

## Series

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Series Name  | Author

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Something Like... series | Jay Bell
The Mortal Instruments | Cassandra Clare
The Cadelonian Series | Ginn Hale
The Russel Middlebrook Series | Brent Hartinger
Russell Middlebrook: The Futon Years | Brent Hartinger
The Otto Digmore Series | Brent Hartinger
The Simon Snow series  | Rainbow Rowell
All for the Game | Nora Sakavic
Rainbow trilogy  | Alex Sánchez
The Infinity Cycle | Adam Silvera
The Raven Cycle | Maggie Stiefvater

## See also

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* LGBTQ portal
* Children and Young Adult Literature portal

* LGBT literature
* Young adult fiction

## References

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1. ^ Cerna, Antonio Gonzalez (2007-04-30). "20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
2. ^ Valenzuela, Tony (2010-05-28). "22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards Winners Announced. Larry Kramer and Kate Clinton honored". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
3. ^ Cerna, Antonio Gonzalez (2010-02-18). "21st Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
4. ^ "Announcing the Winners of the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards!". Goodreads. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
5. ^ Cerna, Antonio Gonzalez (2005-07-09). "17th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
6. ^ Gebra, Fernando de Moraes; Cavagnari, Cristiano; Ferreira, Angela; Havrechak, Angela; Kalva, Lucileia; Recexenete, Ariane (2013). "HOMOAFETIVIDADE E HOMOSSEXUALIDADE EM O ATENEU, DE RAUL POMPÉIA". Revista Decifrar (in Portuguese). 1 (2): 16. ISSN 2318-2229.
7. ^ "Representações da homossexualidade nos romances O Ateneu, de Raul Pompéia, e O cortiço, de Aluísio Azevedo". Recanto das Letras (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-11-14.
8. ^ "2022 Sydney Taylor Book Award winners announced". American Library Association. 24 Jan 2022. Archived from the original on 9 Feb 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2022.

* List of gay young adult novels