Order of Bill Konigsberg Books

Order of Bill Konigsberg Books

Bill Konigsberg is an American author known for writing Honestly Ben, Openly Straight, and The Music of What Happens. He is an author as well as a sports writer and won a GLAAD Media Award in 2002, for his column “Sports World Still a Struggle for Gays” at ESPN.

Konigsberg would later work as sports writer and editor at the Associated Press in New York, but found himself becoming bored and decided to write the novel Audible. The publishers changed their title to Out of the Pocket and won him a Lambda Literary Award in 2009. He followed that book up with Openly Straight which won the Sid Fleischman Award for Humor. Additionally, his third novel The Porcupine of Truth won the Stonewall Book Award and PEN Center USA Literary Award.

Publication Order of Openly Straight Books

Openly Straight

(2013)

Honestly Ben

(2017)

Openly, Honestly

(2017)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Out of the Pocket

(2008)

The Porcupine of Truth

(2015)

The Music of What Happens

(2019)

The Bridge

(2020)

Destination Unknown

(2022)

Publication Order of Anthologies

Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers’ Rights

(2025)