Fantasy Books 24

Tales of the City is a series of novels by American novelist Armistead Maupin. The setting of the series is at 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco, California. Here you will find such characters as a pot-growing landlady, a hippie bisexual, a lothario, a cagey roof tenant and a sweet gay man nicknamed “Mouse.” The first few novels of the series have been made into a TV mini-series. There have also been musical adaptations. Publishers Weekly describes the series as “Maupin’s alternately playful and sentimental tales depict an all-too-easily satirized population of transients and toffs living in and around San Francisco.”

Armistead Maupin began his Tales of the City series as a newspaper serial and published the novel Tales of the City in 1978. In 1989, the series took an 18 year hiatus after Sure of You. In 2007, Maupin resurrected the series with Michael Tolliver Lives. The series is currently ongoing. Below is a list of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Tales of the City Books