Luke Hartwell: 9 books

Luke Hartwell does it again! Baby Self Hate is a sultry but funny story of sex and infatuation. As always with Hartwell, the brilliance of the narrative voice shines brightest. Cam, like other Hartwell narrators, is angry but funny, purposeful but confused, and humorous but unexpectedly profound....

Luke Hartwell's second novel, Who You Are and Where You Come From, is his most autobiographical. Ironically, it is also his only work of fiction to be written from third person point of view. The award-winning novel follows Arkansas country boy Ben Goodman through childhood and adolescence, focusing...

What do you do when your girlfriend's younger brother is the best-looking person on the planet and has a thing for you but he's only sixteen? Parish doesn't know what he's going to do, but he's about to find out. Luke Hartwell has spent the past two years rewriting all of his previously published...

Ben cannot keep his mind off the handsome young wrestler sitting at the back of his world literature class. He fantasizes and fantasizes, and then he acts. An amorous, hilarious, and ridiculously unusual tale by the acclaimed author of Atom Heart John Beloved, Memory and Madness, and Love Underneath. Luke...

Rainbow Award winner Atom Heart John Beloved chronicles the lives of two boys who become friends at age thirteen. The story is told by eighteen-year-old John, who quietly whispers to his best friend one night in bed, "Do me." This novel is a breathtaking love story and an intense coming of age story...

A groundbreaking merger of genres, Luke Hartwell's latest novel, Love Underneath, is as distinctive as its predecessors. Using characters and early chapters from his deleted novel Locomotives in Winter, Hartwell has created a beautiful, sexy story of guys who love. Hunter, a high school senior, finds...

*Contains Jack London's The Iron Heel, H.G. Wells' The Sleeper Awakes, and Robert Hugh Benson's Lord of the World, three dystopian novels that were published within ten years of each other and ushered in the genre. *Contains an introduction by Luke Hartwell *A perfect gift for yourself or your friends...

Rainbow Award-winning author Luke Hartwell explores the relationship between gay and straight best friends in this acclaimed, sparse, moving story that has been favorably compared to Brokeback Mountain. Chris has been in love with his best friend Jimmy since childhood. While Chris is at college, Jimmy...

A likeable, intelligent high school senior, Mateo Bernard is new to Little Rock. Cody Redan has lived there all his life. Yet, when they meet, there's a familiarity, a sense they've known each other before. By turns funny, romantic, insightful, and sad, this evocative novel brilliantly recreates the...