What to Read After The Swimming-Pool Library
Readers who loved The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Swimming-Pool Library is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Swimming-Pool Library
A boy's own story
Tales of the City
The Lost Language of Cranes
Dancer from the Dance
At swim, two boys
A single man
The Front Runner
The city and the pillar
The Beautiful Room Is Empty
Becoming a man
Like people in history
Christopher and his kind
Maurice
The story of the night
The coming storm
Giovanni's Room
Martin and John
The Line of Beauty
The folding star
The Spell
Nightswimmer
Faggots
City of night
A home at the end of the world