Two Boys Kissing

By: David Levithan

Narrated by: David Levithan

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • STONEWALL HONOR BOOK • LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST

"You have to read this.” —Rainbow Rowell, bestselling author of Eleanor & Park and Carry On

From the New York Times bestselling author of Every Day, this love story of shared humanity and history Hypable calls "an interconnecting web that will leave you emotionally exhausted and absolutely thrilled to have read something so beautiful and unique."

Based on true events—and narrated by a Greek Chorus of the generation of gay men lost to AIDS—Two Boys Kissing follows Harry and Craig, two seventeen-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing to set a new Guinness World Record. While the two increasingly dehydrated and sleep-deprived boys are locking lips, they become a focal point in the lives of other teens dealing with universal questions of love, identity, and belonging.

A tear jerker for sure

It is hard to put in words how truly inspiring and pertinent this book has been for me and many of people I know in the queer community as well as non-queer people. This novel is....frankly everything I needed, thank you David.

This Is A MUST Listen

It's four stories intertwined in a two day period. I'll call them the kiss, the couple, the prom, and the lost. The narrator is like the collective LGBT and AIDS victims in o1ne watching over us and seeing who we are. The emotions following these characters through this small window of their lives. It makes us remember those that came before and after us. It reminds us how far we've come and how much we still need to do. How thankful were you for those that supported you when you came out. The pain from those that turn thier backs on you when you told them. You will feel a lot from the two day look into these lives.

Love, love, love, this book

I originally listened to this book back in 2013 or 2014. I remember having to wait several minutes in my car to clean up the tears at the end. In 2015, as I was listening in the Supreme Court to Justice Kennedy read his decision in Obergefell I pictured those we lost to homophobia rejoicing as I’m sure would have happened in this story. Please read this book.

Required for gay men over 50

What made the experience of listening to Two Boys Kissing the most enjoyable?

The language is beautiful and the insight is uncanny

What was one of the most memorable moments of Two Boys Kissing?

References without explanation about life during AIDS crisis

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It was as if my life story had been told.

Any additional comments?

I bought a hard copy of the book so I could see the beautiful language.

Awesome work David

I can relate to the time in the story when everyone around us was dieing. I loved and lost three partners to aids, the first one being my most heartbreaking. I sat by his bedside in the hospitals and then in a nursing home. Before he lost the ability to speak and was in a very poor state we had deviced a signal which was to raise his point finger if he could hear me. This was so memorable to tell him I Love You at the end to see his finger rise!