Books like Mary Ann in Autumn by Armistead Maupin

Thornton Wilder’s play follows Emily Webb, a young woman whose unexamined ordinary life is transformed by confronting death and the rhythms of city and town.

After being adopted by a quirky Dublin couple who treat him only as a house‑guest, Cyril embarks on a life‑spanning quest to discover his origins, his place in Ireland, and the meaning of true belonging.

Arjie, the second son of a privileged Sri Lankan family, struggles to reconcile his playful love of staging wedding pageants with the rigid expectations of adulthood, while confronting his emerging sexuality amid a nation torn by Tamil‑Sinhalese conflict.

Patricia Highsmith’s final novel, "Small g," opens with a shocking murder in a Zurich bar and navigates the tangled strands of love, sexuality, jealousy, and death against a Swiss backdrop.

In 1985 Chicago, gallery director Yale Tishman faces career triumphs and the devastation of the AIDS epidemic, while his friend Nico dies and his partner tests positive. Thirty years later, Fiona travels to Paris to confront her estranged daughter lost to a cult, uncovering the lasting impact of AIDS on their lives.

After a chance online meeting, book manager Ralph Eckhart finds himself entangled with his new lover, the closeted Republican Thersites, whose gossiping book threatens Washington politics and ultimately leads to a murder arrest.

A compromised young teacher travels to Paris under a false identity to investigate the life of Allan Stein, the troubled nephew of Gertrude Stein, while confronting his own hidden desires and past.

Two lifelong friends, Ned and Jack, reunite as Jack's health declines. The trio navigates a turbulent love triangle involving a gay farm boy, reflecting the tumultuous era of the 1970s and AIDS in the 1980s.

A summer romance novel featuring gay men in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

A lively collection of interwoven stories set in a San Francisco household, spotlighting the city’s vibrant LGBTQ+ community and urban life.

Maybe the Moon, Armistead Maupin's first novel since ending his bestselling Tales of the City series, is the audaciously original chronicle of Cadence Roth -- Hollywood actress, singer, iconoclast and former Guiness Book record holder as the world's shortest woman. All of 31 inches tall, Cady is a true survivor in a town where -- as she says -- "you can die of encouragement." Her early starring role as a lovable elf in an immensely popular American film proved a major disappointment, since moviegoers never saw the face behind the stifling rubber suit she was required to wear. Now, after a decade of hollow promises from the Industry, she is reduced to performing at birthday parties and bat mitzvahs as she waits for the miracle that will finally make her a star. In a series of mordantly funny journal entries, Maupin tracks his spunky heroine across the saffron-hazed wasteland of Los Angeles -- from her all-too-infrequent meetings with agents and studio moguls to her regular harrowing encounters with small children, large dogs and human ignorance. Then one day a lanky piano player saunters into Cady's life, unleashing heady new emotions, and she finds herself going for broke, shooting the moon with a scheme so harebrained and daring that it just might succeed. Her accomplice in the venture is her best friend, Jeff, a gay waiter who sees Cady's struggle for visibility as a natural extension of his own war against the Hollywood Closet. As clear-eyed as it is charming, Maybe the Moon is a modern parable about the mythology of the movies and the toll it exacts from it participants on both sides of the screen. It is a work that speaks to the resilience of the human spirit from a perspective rarely found in literature.

In "Sure of You," a driven TV talk-show host faces a crossroads between New York fame and an intimate life in San Francisco, while her gay friend wrestles with his own uncertain future.

Michael Tolliver, the beloved San Francisco gardener, navigates love, family, and aging in this stand‑alone sequel to Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City.

A Lambda Literary Award winner and debut novel, Simple Suburban Murder follows a gay high school teacher investigating a colleague's murder.

The final volume in Mordden's trilogy on gay life in the big city.