5 Best lgbt books like Qui a tué mon père by Édouard Louis

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Qui a tué mon père

By: Édouard Louis

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

« Est-ce qu’il est normal d’avoir honte d’aimer ? » Édouard Louis a publié deux livres, En finir…

"September 2017 Emmanuel Macron condemns the “laziness"

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"You were as much a victim of the violence you inflicted as of the violence you endured."

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"What we call history is nothing but the story of the same emotions, the same joys, reproduced across bodies and time"

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"Where is history? The history they taught at school was not your own. We were learning world history, and you were left out."

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

If you liked the lgbt plot in Qui a tué mon père by Édouard Louis , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. Returning to Reims

By: Didier Eribon , George Chauncey , None

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

On thinking the matter through, it doesn't seem exaggerated to assert that my coming out of the sex… read more

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2. L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

By: Ágota Kristóf

4.11

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

Onze chapitres pour onze moments de sa vie, de la petite enfance en Hongrie à l'apprentissage du fr… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • french literature
  • france
"You become a writer by writing with patience and obstinacy, without ever losing faith in what you write."

-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

"في الغالب أكتفي بالكتابة في ذهني . ذلك اسهل . داخل الراس تجري الامور كلها بيسر . لكن ما ان نشرع في الكتابة حتى تتغير الأفكار .تتشوه.تصير خاطئة"

-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

3. Gift

By: Tove Ditlevsen , Dy Plambeck

3.00

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

I sin tredje erindringsbog vender Tove Ditlevsen tilbage til sin ungdom og fortaeller om det kaerli… read more

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4. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's Simple Passion book and Édouard Louis's Qui a tué mon père

  • france
  • french literature
  • contemporary
"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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5. Happening

By: Annie Ernaux

4.32

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • french literature
  • contemporary
"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

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6. A Man's Place

By: Annie Ernaux

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • french literature
  • contemporary
"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

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7. The Young Man

By: Annie Ernaux

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • french literature
  • contemporary
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8. A Woman's Story

By: Annie Ernaux

4.23

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • french literature
  • france
"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

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9. Qui a tué mon père

By: Édouard Louis

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

« Est-ce qu’il est normal d’avoir honte d’aimer ? » Édouard Louis a publié deux livres, En finir… read more

Similar categories in Édouard Louis's Qui a tué mon père book and Édouard Louis's Qui a tué mon père

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • essays
  • contemporary
  • french literature
  • queer
"September 2017 Emmanuel Macron condemns the “laziness"

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"You were as much a victim of the violence you inflicted as of the violence you endured."

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"What we call history is nothing but the story of the same emotions, the same joys, reproduced across bodies and time"

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"Where is history? The history they taught at school was not your own. We were learning world history, and you were left out."

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

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10. Hyeenan päivät

By: Saara Turunen

3.74

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

”En ollut suostunut uskomaan, että elämä ilman lasta olisi tyhjää, olin vakuutellut itselleni, ette… read more

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11. Jeg anerkender ikke længere jeres autoritet

By: Glenn Bech

4.30

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

JEG ANERKENDER IKKE LÆNGERE JERES AUTORITET er et indigneret, selvudleverende og ømt manifest om kl… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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12. The Details

By: Ia Genberg

3.90

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the ve… read more

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  • contemporary
  • queer
  • lgbt
"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

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13. The Years

By: Annie Ernaux

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • french literature
  • contemporary
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

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14. Dialogue sur l'art et la politique

By: Ken Loach

3.98

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Deux artistes de deux pays et deux générations très différentes, Ken Loach et Edouard Louis, échang… read more

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  • lgbt
  • politics
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • french literature
  • queer
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15. Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)

By: Tove Ditlevsen

4.10

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

The first volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can’t get out of it on your own."

-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)

"Eine Hure ist eine Dame, die es für Geld macht, was mir viel mehr einleuchtet, als es umsonst zu machen."

-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)

"Jokin ahdistaa rintaani kun kiipeän portaita ylös. Ihmiselämän nurja puoli ammottaa entistä avoimempana minua vasten, ja sitä on entistä vaikeampi kattaa niillä kirjoittamattomilla, vapisevilla sanoi…"

-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)

"Aikuisten lapsuus roikkuu repaleisena ja puhkottuna heidän sisimmässään kuin käytetty ja koinsyömä matto jota kukaan ei ajattele eikä tarvitse. Heistä ei näe että heillä on ollut lapsuus, eikä heiltä…"

-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)

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16. Youth

By: Tove Ditlevsen

4.22

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

The second volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Being young is itself temporary, fragile, and ephemeral. You have to get through it - it has no other meaning."

-Tove Ditlevsen, Youth

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17. Love island

By: Amanda Palo

3.22

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

Kun todellisuus ja reality-tv sekoittuvat Love island on repivän kiihkeä ja aito romaani addikti… read more

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18. O que é Meu

By: José Henrique Bortoluci

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Neste ensaio biográfico de rara sensibilidade, que já teve os direitos vendidos para dez editoras e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • contemporary
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19. Saia da frente do meu sol

By: Felipe Charbel

3.86

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

Uma investigação sobre o segredo que moldou a vida de um homem, um romance especulativo, uma biogra… read more

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  • memoir
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20. Eine Arbeiterin

By: Didier Eribon

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Eigentlich hatte Didier Eribon sich vorgenommen, ab jetzt regelmäßig nach Fismes zu fahren. Doch se… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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21. Sodomita

By: Alexandre Vidal Porto

4.07

Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition

O novo romance de Vidal Porto nos conduz ao século XVII, quando a homossexualidade era um crime cuj… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer

8 Best contemporary books like Qui a tué mon père by Édouard Louis

Transform Your Habits

Simple Passion

Annie Ernaux

3.93

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Happening

Annie Ernaux

4.32

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A Man's Place

Annie Ernaux

3.88

Transform Your Habits

The Young Man

Annie Ernaux

3.61

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3.94

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L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

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4.11

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