Armistead Maupin Books in Order

The Barbary Lane crowd scatters into new adventures, from unlikely romances to baffling discoveries. Mona, Mary Ann, Michael, and Anna each confront a new turn in life, while old bonds keep pulling them back together.

In 1970s San Francisco, newly arrived Mary Ann Singleton moves into Anna Madrigal's unconventional Barbary Lane home. Her neighbors, including Michael, Mona, and Brian, pull her into a funny, tender web of friendships, sex, and secrets.

Mary Ann and DeDe investigate a dangerous new arrival, while Michael searches for connection and Anna Madrigal guards her own secrets. The residents of Barbary Lane find their lives growing stranger, riskier, and more intertwined.

A trip to Australia sends Mary Ann and her mother into unfamiliar territory, while friends in San Francisco face strained relationships and the first shadows of the AIDS crisis. The jokes remain sharp, but the stakes grow heavier.

The residents of Barbary Lane become entangled in a mystery involving a charismatic stranger. While Michael searches for love, Anna Madrigal and her friends face romantic mishaps, hidden motives, and escalating danger.

The Barbary Lane friends face parenthood, changing desires, and secrets that refuse to stay buried. As San Francisco changes around them, their shared history becomes both a comfort and a source of fresh trouble.

Cadence Roth is a talented, very short Hollywood performer tired of empty promises and small-minded people. When a piano player enters her life, she risks everything on an audacious plan to claim a larger future.

This nonfiction collection examines lesbian and gay politics in America after Stonewall. It considers the organizing, public arguments, and cultural conflicts that shaped the continuing struggle for equality.

Radio storyteller Gabriel Noone is shaken by a manuscript from a gravely ill boy who says Gabriel's broadcasts helped him survive. Their growing connection becomes a disturbing puzzle about truth, identity, and trust.

Michael "Mouse" Tolliver is older, HIV-positive, and building a life with his younger husband in San Francisco. When illness strikes his biological family, he must reconsider love, loss, and what family really means.

Mary Ann Singleton returns to San Francisco with a secret she can share only with Michael Tolliver. Old friends offer shelter as she confronts the choices that took her away from Barbary Lane.

A nonfiction title from Armistead Maupin, listed apart from his novels and memoir. Readers exploring his work beyond fiction can use it as a brief detour from the Tales of the City world.

This playful alternate-history story imagines Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis living into 1999 as a reclusive eccentric. Set in a changed San Francisco, it blends dark comedy with a young man's enduring love for his mother.

At ninety-two, Anna Madrigal wants to revisit Winnemucca, Nevada, where her life began. As old friends gather around her, past and present collide in a moving return to the world of Barbary Lane.

Maupin traces his path from a conservative North Carolina childhood to an openly gay life in San Francisco. This candid memoir follows his military service, writing career, family tensions, and the friends who became his chosen family.

Mary Ann Singleton arrives in 1970s San Francisco and finds a home at Anna Madrigal's Barbary Lane boarding house. This graphic adaptation follows her vivid new friends through romance, secrets, and city life.

Mona Ramsey runs a struggling English manor with her adopted son Wilfred when troubled American guests arrive. As a secret threatens the household, Mona calls on her nerve, compassion, and old Barbary Lane connections.