The most popular coming out books

Coming-out stories are about telling the truth about who you are. The fear beforehand, the conversation with family or friends, and the life that opens up afterward are told in novels and memoirs. Some are painful and many are joyful, and they matter deeply to readers facing the same moment.

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Alma Mater
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Alma Mater

Jean Little

Published 2001

272 pages

Dragman
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Dragman

Steven Appleby

Published 2020

336 pages

Band Fags!
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Band Fags!

Frank A. Polito, Frank Anthony Polito

Published 2008

434 pages

Closet Case
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Closet Case

Robert Rodi

Published 1994

336 pages

Boys Like Us
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Boys Like Us

Patrick Merla

1996 · 1997 edition

384 pages

Delta Belles
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Delta Belles

Penelope J. Stokes

Published 2006

549 pages

Choices
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Choices

Nancy Toder

1980 · 2013 edition

326 pages

Crisis
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Crisis

Mitchell Gold, Mindy Drucker

Published 2008

416 pages

Queer in America
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Queer in America

Michelangelo Signorile

Published 2003

456 pages