Literature: Intergenerational
About a Boy - Nick Hornby - (1998)
Will trades his lack of enthusiasm toward children for a date with a truly beautiful woman and single mother.
Alexander's Choice - Edmund Marlowe - pdf - (2012)
Sweet-natured, intelligent and good-looking, thirteen-year-old aristocrat Alexander Aylmer seems to have everything going for him when he goes to Eton, the prestigious English public school.
The Alienist - Caleb Carr - (1994)
The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels.
The Angel of Darkness - Caleb Carr - (1997)
Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years.
Allen Stein - Mathew Stadler - (1999)
After a sex scandal involving one of his students, an American high-school teacher flees to Paris, only to find himself falling in love with the skateboarding son of the French family who has taken him in.
An Honorable Profession - John L'Heureux - (2002)
When Miles Bannon witnesses a group of students picking on one boy in the shower after football practice, he is suddenly forced to balance his responsibility for the situation with the unexpectedly intimate glimpse he now has of them.
Antinous: A Romance of Ancient Rome - George Taylor, Adolf Hausrath - pdf - (1882)
If you are interested in the history of ancient Roma, Greek love, art history or Greco-Roman sculptures, you must read this book.
Avoidance - Michael Lowenthal - (2002)
Jeremy is blindsided by the seductive charm of Max, a fourteen-year-old boy from Manhattan, all arms and legs and attitude.
Billy - Withley Strieber - (1990)
Barton Royal, a deranged misfit, kidnaps twelve-year-old Billy Neary from the video arcade at the Crossland Mall and imprisons him in the secret black room beneath his house, in a tale of madness and evil.
Bonustrack - Mein Leben mit Peter (German) - (2018)
Boy and partly pedophilia related short stories, including a sequel to "Die Sache mit Peter"
The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping - Nasdijj - (2003)
Eleven-year-old Awee came to live with Nasdijj carrying a brown paper bag containing all his belongings, a legacy of abuse, and AIDS. But this beautiful, loving, and intelligent little boy also had enormous hope for his new life.
The Cardiff Team: Ten Stories - Guy Davenport - pdf - (1996)
The central theme is that of tribeless people joining, or trying to join, a team, a tribe, or a society.
Cody - Keith Hale - (1987)
By turns funny, romantic, erotic, and sad, this evocative novel brilliantly recreates the landscape of late adolescence, when friendships seem eternal and loves reincarnate.
The Coming Storm - Paul Elliot Russell - (1999)
The story of interlocking lives - Louis Tremper, the headmaster at the Forge School; a 25-year old gay man and recently hired teacher at the Forge School; and Noah Lathrop III, a troubled student - all of whom struggle with their own inner demons, desires, and conflicted loyalties.
Corydon - André Gide - (1920)
Four dialogues on the subject of homosexuality and its place in society.
The Counterfeiters - André Gide - Full Read - (1927)
A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France.
Cry to Heaven - Anne Rice - (1982)
This is the story of the castrati, the exquisite and otherworldly sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices win the adulation of royal courts and grand opera houses throughout Europe.
Das Erwachen der Unschuld (German) - (2017)
New novel by the author of "Die Sache mit Peter", again dealing with pedophilia..
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann - (1911)
Story of a middle-aged German writer, torn by his passion for a Polish youth met on holiday in Venice.
The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole: A Romance of Modern Venice - Frederic Rolfe - (1977)
This is the Death in Venice Thomas Mann would not have dared to write and is one of the classic books on Venice at a time when it served as a home for undesirables.
Die Sache mit Peter (German) - (2017)
German autobiographical novel about a sexual relationship between a boy and a man.
The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee - Matthew Stadler - (1993)
Adrift in a glittering city of high culture and constant crime, an earnest young historian named Nicholas Dee finds his life being taken over by a mysterious dwarf and the curiously gifted illiterate boy he is charged with teaching.
The Dream Life - Bo Huston - (1992)
This 1992 LGBT novel is an emotionally raw, semi-autobiographical story told in alternating first-person chapters between thirty-something narrator Holly and Jed, the 13-year-old boy he runs off with.
Edinburgh - Alexander Chee - (2001)
Twelve-year-old Fee is a gifted Korean-American soprano in a boys' choir in Maine whose choir director reveals himself to be a serial pedophile.
Ekaterina - Donald Harington - (1993)
The newest resident of a faculty mansion inhabited by ghosts and filled with drunks, writer Ekaterina soon takes over the top floor of the Halfmoon Hotel in Arcata Springs, where she takes on pubescent lovers.
The End of Alice - A. M. Homes - (2012)
A girl is on summer holiday from college and plans to groom a 12-year-old boy named Matthew, who lives in her neighborhood.
The Epistles of Antinous - John Gambril Nicholson - (2023)
Originally created for the website SacredAntinous.com, each Epistle of Antinous tells the first-hand story of a young man's rise through the halls of Roman power to become the Emperor's beloved and favourite.
Ernesto - Umberto Saba - pdf - (1975)
Ernesto, sixteen, searches for the love he can't find from his family, in sexual encounters with an older man, a prostitute, and a boy his own age.
Finistere - Fritz Peters - (1951)
Matthew, a young American moves to France with his mother following his parents’ divorce. He navigates his budding sexuality and complicated new relationships.
Good Night, Mr. Tom - Michelle Magorian - (1986)
London is poised on the brink of World War II. Timid, scrawny Willie Beech--the abused child of a single mother--is evacuated to the English countryside. At first, he is terrified of everything, even of Mr. Tom, the gruff, kindly old man who has taken him in.
Houses Without Doors - Peter Straub - (2012)
A chilling selection of short fiction stories that reveal the horrors lurking beneath the surface of the ordinary world.
The Immoralist - André Gide - Full Read - (1902)
The confessional account of a man who becomes very ill, and during his recovery he meets a young Arab boy whose radiant health and beauty captivate him.
Involved - Walter Habers - (1994)
Bram Aardsen is a self-made man. Chance has had no role in his success; years of hard work precluded luck as a factor. Yet it is a sheer accident that his life is interdicted by a young boy's.
Joe - Larry Brown - (1991)
The lives of Joe, a drinking, gambling, reckless fifty-year-old, and Gary, a luckless fifteen-year-old raised by an evil father and an insane mother--become intertwined in a novel of good, evil, temptation, and sacrifice.
King of Shadows - Susan Cooper - (1999)
Nat goes to bed ill and awakens transported back in time four hundred years. He finds the warm, nurturing father figure missing from his life -- in none other than William Shakespeare himself.
Kite Music - Gary Shellhart - (1988)
A slice-of-life book exploring the everyday lives and relationships of gay and lesbian characters.
The Last of the Wine - Mary Renault - (1956)
Alexis, a young Athenian of good family, reaches manhood during the last phases of the Peloponnesian war. He meets Lysis, a youth influenced by Socrates, and their relationship develops.
The Life I Lead - Keith Banner - (1999)
A stunning debut novel about obsessional passion and a morally ambiguous love, about an upstanding family man in an Indiana town who finds himself caught in the grip of desire for a young boy.
Loving Sander - Joseph Geraci - (1997)
An American photography scholar working in Holland has befriended the ten-year-old son of colleagues there. Over the next two years, Will is increasingly caught up in tensions between Sander's mother Marijke and her estranged husband Niek over his growing intimacy with Sander.
The Man Without a Face - Isabele Holland - (1993)
Fourteen-year-old Charles desperately wants two things: a father and a way out. Little love has come his way until the summer he befriends a mysterious scarred man named Justin McLeod, nicknamed "The Man Without a Face.
Mike & Maggie - John Steven - (2008)
John Martin and his faithful Chocolate Lab Maggie have barely moved into their new San Francisco Bay Area home when they are befriended by Mike, a local skater boy.
The Moralist - Rod Downey - pdf - (2002)
Fifty-year-old "spin doctor" Red Rover volunteers for a creative writing mentoring program and falls in love with his twelve-year-old protege Jonathan.
Mysterious Skin - Scott Heim - (1996)
At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire five-hour period of time.
Never the same again - Gerald Tesch - pdf - (1956)
An unforgettable picture of innocence betrayed. Such realism in setting down on paper the thoughts and language and reactions of a boy of thirteen has seldom been found in an American novel.
Nobody Knows What My Dreams Are - Patrick Clerkin - (2008)
Set in Dublin of the 1960s. Pat, a man in his 20s, meets 11-year-old Andrew who needs an adult to get him in to the cinema. The two develop a close relationship.
Our Love (Notre Amour) - Roger Peyrefitte - (1967)
About the (sexual) relationship between Roger Peyrefitte and a fourteen-year-old lyceum student.
The Persian Boy - Mary Renault - (1972)
The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander’s life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but found freedom with Alexander.
Picturing Will - Ann Beattie - (1990)
Illuminates the multifaceted relationships that define family, portraying the characters' aspirations, failures, and interactions through Will's innocent perspective.
The Portrait : Secrets, Lies, and Revelations - Melvin Martinez - (2003)
Death, suffering, envy among fellow boys and men are dealt with, as well as the moments of sexual encounters that seems to be a constant struggle to withold and yet only weakened by the mere sight of innocent temptations.
Reasons of the Heart - Bron Nicholls - (1993)
Australian teacher Fred Musgrove receives a telephone call from recently widowed, young Jonno, his lost love. His harmony is shattered, setting off two months of introspective reminiscence recorded in the form of a diary mingling his life story and his present-day emotional revival through Jonno and Jonno's six-year-old Down's Syndrome son.
Return to Innocence - Gary M. Frazier - (2011)
Glen Erskine is a gifted psychologist who serves as the director and chief of staff of New Horizons, a group home and counseling center for abused boys. Tommy Jackson is a thirteen-year-old victim of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse.
The Romance of a Choir Boy - John Gambril Nicholson - (2013)
On a visit to his country home, Philip Luard, a young and idealistic Anglican curate working in London discovers that a local boy called Teddy Faircloth has a beautiful singing voice.
Running with Scissors: A Memoir - Augusten Burroughs - (2002)
The true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain.
Sandel - Angus Stewart - (1968)
Set in the 1960s in an Oxford college, when being gay was still an offence punishable by imprisonment, Sandel tells the story of a love affair between an undergraduate and a cathedral choir boy.
Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde - Michael Matthew Kaylor - pdf - (2006)
About the (sexual) relationship between Roger Peyrefitte and a fourteen-year-old lyceum student.
The Sex Offender - Matthew Stadler - (1994)
This extravagantly imagined tale chronicles the rehabilitation of a teacher who has had a love affair with a twelve-year-old boy.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice - François Augiéras, Sue Dyson - (2001)
In the depths of the Sarladais, a land of ghosts, cool caves and woods, a teenage boy is sent to live with a thirty-five-year-old priest, but soon the man becomes more than just his teacher.
Talking to Strange Men - Ruth Rendell - (1987)
Safe houses and secret message drops, double crosses and defections -- it sounds like the stuff of sophisticated espionage, but the agents are only schoolboys.
TBoaTYO - B.J. Freedman - (2013)
TBoatYo lifts the covers off the 1980s boy-love scene in the Philippines, with a cast of bumbling boylovers, lovable boys, and a few opposing forces.
The Tricky Part : One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace - Martin Moran - (2005)
Between the ages of twelve and fifteen, Martin Moran had a sexual relationship with an older man, a counselor he'd met at a Catholic boys' camp. Almost thirty years later, at the age of forty-two, he set out to find and face his abuser.
The Vampire Armand - Anne Rice - (1998)
The story of Armand--eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel.
The World, The Flesh & Myself - Michael Davidson - (1962)
This autobiography, published in 1962 in an England where homosexuality was still illegal and widely reviled, caused a sensation with its opening sentence, “This is the life-history of a lover of boys”.
The wrong people - Robin Maugham - (1971)
Set against the seedy backdrop of 1960s Tangier, this is the story of a repressed English schoolmaster on holiday where he meets a wealthy American expat who lavishly entertains him and even provides him with a young lover.
Touched - Scott Campbell - (1997)
Robbie Young is an ordinary twelve-year-old boy about to drop a bombshell that will devastate his small town family. One day he rides his bike home after school, finds his mother in the kitchen making dinner, and speaks aloud the secret he's been keeping for a year.
When Jonathan Died - Tony Duvert (German) - (1991)
The young painter Jonathan lives alone and isolated in the countryside. Time and again, Serge, the son of a friend from Paris who has no desire to care for him, is left in his care.
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