In J. Marshall Freeman’s fantasy novel, Crispin wants to leave the shadow of his sophomore year, when he was outed and lost his first boyfriend, behind him. He takes comfort in starting his junior year as part of the popular clique,... Read More

Childhood friends separated by death reunite in Kate Hazel Hall’s supernatural novel "From Darkness". Ari and Alex once played in the Australian wilds. Then Alex drowned, and Ari blamed herself. Years later, a snakebite should have... Read More

Julián and his new friend Marisol are important players in a wedding. When an accident ruins Marisol’s dress, Julián improvises a solution to save the big day. Watercolor and ink illustrations invite lingering over details, like an... Read More

Alan Rose’s literary novel "As If Death Summoned" is about grief and community in the time of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The book’s unnamed narrator has returned to the US from Australia, where he spent a decade with his partner, Gray,... Read More

Young husbands learn to say goodbye in "Elegy for the Undead", the sweetest zombie story you’ll ever read. Jude and Lyle met in high school, when Lyle was out and Jude was not. They reconnected over a quiet walk through the woods... Read More

Corey Sobel’s magnificent debut novel, "The Redshirt", exposes the hypermasculinity of collegiate football as a freshman starts at a Division One school. Miles is younger and smaller than the rest of his teammates at King College.... Read More

In Julian Winters’s perceptive young adult novel, "The Summer of Everything", a gay teenager is afraid of loving his best friend. In Santa Monica, Wes is an insecure, comic book-loving geek. He lives above an independent bookstore, and... Read More

Estranged siblings deal with their dying father, and each other, in Charles Lambert’s novel "Prodigal". Jeremy and Rachel have never been close. Rachel, always their father’s favorite, resents her mother and brother for abandoning... Read More