$10 · Tales of the City (seven novels)

Tales of the City is a series of novels depicting the life of a group of friends in San Francisco, many of whom are LGBT. 7 novels for $10.00. The series opens with the arrival of Mary Ann Singleton, a naive young woman from Cleveland, Ohio, who is visiting San Francisco on vacation when she impulsively decides to stay. She finds an apartment at 28 Barbary Lane, the domain of the eccentric, marijuana-growing landlady Anna Madrigal. Mary Ann becomes friends with other tenants of the building: the hippyish, bisexual Mona Ramsey; heterosexual lothario Brian Hawkins; the sinister and cagey roof tenant Norman Neal Williams; and Michael Tolliver, a sweet and personable gay man known to friends as Mouse. In chronologicalorder: Tales of the City More Tales of the City Further Tales of the City Babycakes Significant Others Sure of You Michael Tolliver Lives Two other novels by Armistead Maupin: The Night Listener and Maybe The Moon (fourth photo): both for $5.00.