Coming Out Gay Fiction Books
81 gay fiction books that use the coming out trope — a character comes to terms with, and shares, their queer identity. Top picks: Two Boys Kissing (2013), More Happy Than Not (2015) and The Lost Language of Cranes (1986).
Two Boys Kissing
David Levithan
More Happy Than Not
Adam Silvera
The Lost Language of Cranes
David Leavitt
Am I blue?
Marion Dane Bauer
Look Down in Mercy
Walter Baxter
Comfort & Joy
Jim Grimsley
Fan Art
Sarah Tregay
Closet Case
Robert Rodi
When Love Comes to Town
Tom Lennon
Secret Matter
Toby Johnson
Anything Could Happen
Will Walton
For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Still Not Enough
Keith Boykin
The Trouble Boy
Tom Dolby
The Shared Heart
Adam Mastoon
Consenting Adult
Laura Keane Zametkin Hobson
Coming Out
Wallace Hamilton
Undone
Cat Clarke
Getting Off Clean
Timothy Murphy - undifferentiated
All the Water I've Seen Is Running
Elias Rodriques
Common Sons
Ronald L. Donaghe
The Gay Year
Michael Jean De Forrest
Tough Love
Abby Denson
Getting Off Clean
Murphy, Timothy
Screwups
Jamie Fessenden
West of Ireland walks
Corcoran, Kevin
A Better Place
Mark A. Roeder
The Tin Star
J. L. Langley
To the Edge
Cameron Abbott
Someone Is Killing the Gay Boys of Verona
Mark Roeder
Chulito
Charles Rice-González
The Blind Season
Ronald L. Donaghe
Coming Out
Seven Slade
Independence Day
B. A. Ecker
Who Lies Inside
Timothy Ireland
Music I Never Dreamed Of
John Gilgun
Kevin Keller
Dan Parent
Normal Miguel
Erik Orrantia
The Crabapple Tree
Lyndsey D'Arcangelo
The World can break your heart
Daniel Curzon
All over Him
Ronald L. Donaghe
Boy Who Came in from the Cold
B. G. Thomas
White Coat Is My Closet
Jake Wells
Fresh Meat
Jp Ramsey
Taking a Knee
Sean Ashcroft
Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada
Keith Hale
Vital Ties
Karen Kringle
Crazy Love
Tom Lennon
The Wrestling Party
Bett Williams
Among the Carnivores
Daniel Curzon
Pulling Leather
L. C. Chase
Whose Eye Is on Which Sparrow?
Taylor, Robert
Child of My Right Hand
Eric K. Goodman
St. Mick
Jack Challenge
Borrowing Time - A Latino Sexual Odyssey
M.D. Carlos T. Mock
The Coming Out Party
John Caffey
Seventh Summer
Hadrian Keene
Pretzel Logic
Lisa Rogak
Arusha
J. E. Knowles
Going Gay
Kenneth Morgan
Secret Matter
Edwin Clark Johnson
Fault of Babylon
Richard Kempton
Sucking Sherbet Lemons
Michael Carson
Play It Forward
Smith, Frederick
Midlife Crisis
Audra North
Snow Angel
Mark Roeder
Conduct Unbecoming
Mike Seabrook
Complementary Colors
Kate Evans
Straight
Seth King
Fin & Matt
Charlie Winters
Second Crossing
N. A. Diaman
Someone Is Watching
Mark A. Roeder
Letters from the Closet
Tony Ferrante
Two halves of New Haven
Martin Schecter
Life Doesn't Always
John Garvey
Plantation Secrets
James W. Ridout
Disastrous Dates & Dream Boys
Mark A. Roeder
Keeper of Secrets
Mark A. Roeder
Masked Destiny
Mark A. Roeder
Phantom World
Mark A. Roeder
The Soccer Field Is Empty
Mark A. Roeder
The Choice
Maria V. Ciletti