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Banned Books and the Apocalypse

Boy Like Me & All That's Left in the World

Two gay YA love stories, two boys named Jamie, two very different ends of the world.

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In Boy Like Me, the world is a 1994 British classroom where Section 28 has banned any mention of gay lives in school, so Jamie's romance unfolds in secret — in notes passed back and forth in the margins of a library book. In All That's Left in the World, the world has literally ended, and Jamie is holed up alone in a cabin when a half-dead boy turns up on his doorstep.

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They're secretly the same book: two tender boys finding each other when everything says they can't. We also crack open the sequel, The Only Light Left Burning.

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Boy Like Me by Simon James Green. All That's Left in the World and The Only Light Left Burning by Erik J. Brown.

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