Babycakes (Tales of the City) / Armistead Maupin

The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin s best-selling San Francisco saga, soon to return to television as a Netflix original series once again starring Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis.

When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there s more to making a baby than meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first piece of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.