8 Top queer books like My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

Cover of My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

By: Jenn Shapland

4.09

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is an audacious new form of nonfiction that remakes the bounda…

If you liked the queer plot in My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Giving an Account of Oneself by Judith Butler

1. Giving an Account of Oneself

By: Judith Butler

4.21

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

What does it mean to lead a moral life? In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith But… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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3. The Bell

By: Iris Murdoch , A.S. Byatt

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed … read more

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4. The Member of the Wedding

By: Carson McCullers

4.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Twelve-year-old Frankie cannot understand why everyone disapproves of her idea of going on her brot… read more

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5. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

By: Carson McCullers

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twe… read more

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6. Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

By: Sally Mann

4.37

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Man… read more

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7. Reflections in a Golden Eye

By: Carson McCullers

3.77

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

A powerful and passionate tale is set on a southern army post --a human hell inhabited by a sexuall… read more

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8. Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag

By: Sigrid Nunez

5.00

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

Sigrid Nunez was an aspiring writer when she first met Susan Sontag, already a legendary figure kno… read more

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9. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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10. Ciała

By: Annie Ernaux

4.28

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Jak oddać paraliżujący strach towarzyszący niechcianej ciąży i potajemnej aborcji? Jak opisać nasto… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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11. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

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  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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12. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

By: Jenn Shapland

4.09

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is an audacious new form of nonfiction that remakes the bounda… read more

Similar categories in Jenn Shapland's My Autobiography of Carson McCullers book and Jenn Shapland's My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

  • lesbian
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • books about books
  • queer
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13. I Do Everything I'm Told

By: Megan Fernandes

4.17

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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14. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

By: Melissa Febos

4.24

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more

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  • queer
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

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15. 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round

By: Jami Attenberg

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Jami Attenberg’s wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer’s gui… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • books about books
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16. Łakome

By: Małgorzata Lebda

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Sensualna, magnetyczna, dzika. Maj. Koniec świata. Stąd wszędzie jest daleko. Dwie kobiety przyj… read more

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17. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

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  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

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18. Ordinary Notes

By: Christina Sharpe

4.55

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
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19. Nie wszyscy pójdziemy do raju

By: Olga Górska

3.57

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Puszka z jasnym pełnym, w jednej ręce różaniec, w drugiej papieros, w radiu Aerosmith. Trzy dziewcz… read more

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  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of First Love: Essays on Friendship by Lilly Dancyger

20. First Love: Essays on Friendship

By: Lilly Dancyger

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more

Similar categories in Lilly Dancyger's First Love: Essays on Friendship book and Jenn Shapland's My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

  • lesbian
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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21. Moja ukochana i ja

By: Renata Lis

4.00

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

Intymna, intelektualna i interwencyjna Książka, po którą powinna sięgnąć każda lesbijka w Polsce. … read more

Similar categories in Renata Lis's Moja ukochana i ja book and Jenn Shapland's My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

  • lesbian
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer

10 Top nonfiction books like My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

Transform Your Habits

Giving an Account of Oneself

Judith Butler

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Splinters

Leslie Jamison

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Ciała

Annie Ernaux

4.28

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Transform Your Habits

The Art of Memoir

Mary Karr

4.56

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Splinters

Leslie Jamison

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

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Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

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