Books like Sure of You (Tales of the City) by Armistead Maupin

A Chilean woman embarks on a quest to find her lover in 1840s California's goldfields, facing numerous challenges and adventures along the way.

Seventy‑four‑year‑old Barrington Jedidiah Walker, an Antiguan expatriate in London’s Hackney, balances family life with a hidden gay identity, risking his marriage and long‑hidden truth for authenticity and freedom.

Old Rosa is a Cuban short‑story collection that follows a mother and her son as their lives intersect in the midst of a repressive regime, exploring the hardships faced by gay men under Castro’s rule.

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.

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.

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

A book exploring gay relationships, friendship, and the uncharted wilderness of gay life in America.