Garrard Conley Reading Order
1 series · 3 books
Garrard Conley is an American writer and LGBTQ advocate whose debut memoir Boy Erased chronicles his experience growing up in an Arkansas fundamentalist household and being sent to conversion therapy as a teenager. His unflinching account of faith, identity, and family conflict resonated widely with readers and was adapted into a 2018 film starring Lucas Hedges. Conley's work explores themes of religious trauma and personal liberation through both memoir and fiction.
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Standalone Novels Series
3 books
Garrard Conley has written three standalone novels that should be read in publication order beginning with All the World Beside. Each book functions as an independent story, though reading them in the order they were released provides the intended experience of discovering Conley's evolving work as a novelist.
Start with All the World Beside and read in order.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | All the World Beside |
| 2 | Boy erased |
| 3 | Shame-Sex Attraction |
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