Author guide
Andre Aciman Books in Order
Andre Aciman is an Egyptian-born Italian-American writer and professor of comparative literature. Raised in Alexandria and Rome before moving to New York, he writes novels, memoirs, essays, and short fiction marked by lyrical prose and sustained attention to desire, memory, exile, identity, and the emotional life of place. He teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is a major scholar of Marcel Proust.
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Andre Aciman's Newest Book
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Call Me by Your Name
The best-known novel and the first entry in the linked Elio and Oliver sequence.
Out of Egypt
A strong standalone starting point for Aciman's memoiristic writing and themes of exile, family, and memory.
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Call Me by Your Name
A linked sequence of novels following Elio, Oliver, and the people whose lives intersect with theirs across decades.
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