Order of Book Series
0

Alan Hollinghurst Books in Order

Alan Hollinghurst has written 9 books, published between 1982 and 2024. The first book is Confidential Chats with Boys (1982) and the newest is Our Evenings (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
9
Published
1982–2024
Pages on record
2,059 in 5 of 9 books
Reading time
34–51 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,059 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 9 titles with a page count on record.

See all 9 books in order Printable Alan Hollinghurst checklist
Photo of Alan Hollinghurst, author

Alan Hollinghurst, born in 1954, is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. 9 catalogued books span 1982 to 2024, from Confidential Chats with Boys to Our Evenings. The novels are The Swimming-Pool Library (1988), The Folding Star (1994), The Spell (1998), The Line of Beauty (2004), The Stranger's Child (2011) and The Sparsholt Affair (2017). Hollinghurst took the Somerset Maugham Award in 1989, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1994 and the Booker Prize in 2004 for The Line of Beauty, and is credited with carrying gay-themed fiction into the literary mainstream.

How many Alan Hollinghurst books are there?

Alan Hollinghurst has 9 books, released between 1982 and 2024.

Alan Hollinghurst Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 9 Alan Hollinghurst books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (1988)
  2. Cover of The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst (1994)
  3. Cover of The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst (1998)
  4. Cover of The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
  5. Cover of The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst (2011)
  6. Cover of The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst (2017)
  1. 1
    Confidential Chats with Boys1982 · confirmed 1/4
    1982–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  2. 2
    The Swimming-Pool Library1988 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988336
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    Poems1988 · confirmed 1/4
    1988–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    The Folding Star1994 · 437 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994437
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    The Spell1998 · 257 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998257
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    The Line of Beauty2004 · confirmed 1/4
    2004–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    The Stranger's Child2011 · 576 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011576
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    The Sparsholt Affair2017 · 453 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017453
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Our Evenings2024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Alan Hollinghurst books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Standalone books

9 books

9 Alan Hollinghurst titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Alan Hollinghurst books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 9 Alan Hollinghurst books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Alan Hollinghurst

Start with Confidential Chats with Boys (1982), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Alan Hollinghurst book?

Our Evenings (2024) is the newest Alan Hollinghurst book released so far.

Is there a new Alan Hollinghurst book coming?

No next Alan Hollinghurst book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Alan Hollinghurst has won

Wikidata records 8 awards and 2 nominations for Alan Hollinghurst. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Alan Hollinghurst at a glance

Still publishing
Alan Hollinghurst published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Alan Hollinghurst books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
Length
2,059 pages across the 5 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 437 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Alan Hollinghurst books, 3 of 9, were published in the 1980s.

What the Alan Hollinghurst books are about

6 of the 9 Alan Hollinghurst books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: gay men is tagged on 4 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.