13 Best queer books like In September, the Light Changes by Andrew Holleran

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In September, the Light Changes

By: Andrew Holleran

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The author of the best-selling gay novel Dancer from the Dance presents a new collection of short s…

If you liked the queer plot in In September, the Light Changes by Andrew Holleran , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd

1. Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day

By: Peter Ackroyd

3.34

Format: 247 pages, ebook

*** A Sunday Times Bestseller *** In Queer City Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way… read more

Similar categories in Peter Ackroyd's Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"The love that dares not speak its name has never stopped talking."

-Peter Ackroyd, Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day

"Sexuality was a fluid, infinitely malleable and indefinite condition. It permeated the streets of London like the smell of pies and sweetmeats."

-Peter Ackroyd, Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day

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2. Maurice

By: E.M. Forster

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist… read more

Similar categories in E.M. Forster's Maurice book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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3. The Weekend

By: Peter Cameron

3.87

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

On a midsummer weekend, in a country house in upstate New York, three friends gather on the anniver… read more

Similar categories in Peter Cameron's The Weekend book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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4. The Swimming-Pool Library

By: Alan Hollinghurst

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an en… read more

Similar categories in Alan Hollinghurst's The Swimming-Pool Library book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • gay fiction
  • fiction
  • queer
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5. The Hours

By: None , Michael Cunningham

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, "The Hours" is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan,… read more

Similar categories in None's The Hours book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • fiction
  • lgbt

6. The Testament of Mary

By: Colm Tóibín

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Provocative, haunting, and indelible, Colm Toibin's portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary old… read more

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7. Beyond Black

By: Hilary Mantel

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year Colette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab b… read more

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8. Another Country

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more

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9. The Radleys

By: Matt Haig

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Radleys are an everyday family who juggle dysfunctional lives. Except, as Peter and Helen Radle… read more

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10. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

Similar categories in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • fiction
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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11. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Barry's Old God's Time book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • fiction
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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12. Bliss Montage

By: Ling Ma

3.91

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more

Similar categories in Ling Ma's Bliss Montage book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • short stories
  • fiction
"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

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13. No One Is Talking About This

By: Patricia Lockwood

3.55

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

A book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a… read more

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  • fiction
"Couldn't he see her arms all full of the sapphires of the instant?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"The Flat Earth Society announced it had members all over the globe."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"Every fiber in her being strained. She was trying to hate the police."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

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14. Tiepolo Blue

By: James Cahill

3.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Ben turns and grins ironically. ‘When you stopped just now and looked at the sky, you weren’t measu… read more

Similar categories in James Cahill's Tiepolo Blue book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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15. The New Life

By: Tom Crewe

3.77

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more

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  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"Science requires a rational audience."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"True development does not respect comfort."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

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16. Lessons

By: Ian McEwan

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more

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  • fiction
"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

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17. Seven Empty Houses

By: Samanta Schweblin

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of… read more

Similar categories in Samanta Schweblin's Seven Empty Houses book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • short stories
  • fiction
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18. Elizabeth Finch

By: Julian Barnes

3.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that centers on the presence of a vivid and pa… read more

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  • fiction
"In the case of George and the Dragon – an encounter in which the dice were theologically loaded – any morally sentient human being must surely sympathise with the poor dragon."

-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch

"I don’t know what the average allotment of good luck in a life is or should be — it’s an unanswerable question, and doubtless there is no ‘should’ in it anyway — but I do know that she was part of my…"

-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch

"Korean woman who had escaped from the North to the South. She was talking about love. ‘If you grow up in the West,’ she said, ‘you may think romance occurs naturally, but it does not. You learn how t…"

-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch

"We must certainly consider, not just in this class, but outside it, in our own turbulent and fretful lives, the element of chance. The number of people we deeply meet is strangely few. Passion may mi…"

-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch

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19. Liberation Day

By: George Saunders

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more

Similar categories in George Saunders's Liberation Day book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • short stories
  • fiction
"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

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20. A Guest at the Feast

By: Colm Tóibín

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In his essay about the life of Irish writer John McGahern, Tóibín reveals the tones of melancholy a… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's A Guest at the Feast book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • lgbt
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21. All Down Darkness Wide

By: Seán Hewitt

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming… read more

Similar categories in Seán Hewitt's All Down Darkness Wide book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"When they said, 'I'm just scared that you'll be unhappy', what I really felt they were saying was 'I am scared that if you continue being yourself, we will make you unhappy."

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

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22. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin

23. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

By: Jeremy Atherton Lin

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Atherton Lin's Gay Bar: Why We Went Out book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"Gay is the opium of the people."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

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24. My Phantoms

By: Gwendoline Riley

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more

Similar categories in Gwendoline Riley's My Phantoms book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • fiction
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25. The Late Americans

By: Brandon Taylor

3.38

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era by Laurence Leamer

26. Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

By: Laurence Leamer

3.83

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scan… read more

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27. The Colony

By: Audrey Magee

4.11

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Magee's The Colony book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • fiction
Cover of Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett

28. Checkout 19

By: Claire-Louise Bennett

3.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets--and dream… read more

Similar categories in Claire-Louise Bennett's Checkout 19 book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • fiction
"Mimicry can be unkind, but at least it acknowledges that you’re there."

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

"Yet in my heart I was bereft, grieving – homesick for a place I had never seen. For a place that doesn't exist, yet I belonged there nonetheless. Ridiculous really. Ridiculous, yet so acute and abidi…"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

"…the impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable…"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

"an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it s…"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

Cover of The Goodby People (McNally Editions) by Gavin Lambert

29. The Goodby People (McNally Editions)

By: Gavin Lambert

3.87

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

First published in 1971, The Goodby People is perhaps the greatest novel ever written about post-Ma… read more

Similar categories in Gavin Lambert's The Goodby People (McNally Editions) book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of In September, the Light Changes by Andrew Holleran

30. In September, the Light Changes

By: Andrew Holleran

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The author of the best-selling gay novel Dancer from the Dance presents a new collection of short s… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • gay fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Small Rain by Garth Greenwell

31. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

Similar categories in Garth Greenwell's Small Rain book and Andrew Holleran's In September, the Light Changes

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt

22 Best fiction books like In September, the Light Changes by Andrew Holleran

Transform Your Habits

Maurice

E.M. Forster

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The Weekend

Peter Cameron

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Swimming-Pool Library

Alan Hollinghurst

3.16

Transform Your Habits

The Hours

None , Michael Cunningham

4.16

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22 best-selling fiction books like The Goodby People (McNally Editions) by Gavin Lambert

Transform Your Habits

Democracy

Joan Didion

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Feast

Margaret Kennedy

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Country Life

Rachel Cusk

3.73

Transform Your Habits

A Way of Life, Like Any Other

Seamus Heaney , Darcy O'Brien

3.88

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