Erin O. White Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Erin O. White is an American published author.

She is a novelist who is known for having written the memoir Given Up For You. She has also written essays that have been featured and published in the New York Times as well as The Kenyon Review and other places.

Erin resides in Minneapolis. She is married and shares two daughters with her wife.

Given Up for You: A Memoir of Love, Belonging, and Belief (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiography) is a 2018 book by Erin O. White. If you’ve been looking for something interesting and unique in the nonfiction world, check out this story that is based actually off of the events of this person’s life.

In this memoir, White shares the hunger that she has for divine and romantic love both and also expresses how these different desires were able to help transform her life.

In the late nineties, Erin spent Saturday nights with her girlfriend and then spent Sunday mornings in Catholic confirmation classes. Then the Church closed its doors on her. When that happened, she had to deal with the question of what a lesbian believer does with her longing for God.

This tale goes into her various yearnings with often bittersweet conviction while looking into the depths of soul and heart at the same time. Read this book to absorb every candid, heartfelt world in a memoir that is nothing short of revelatory. An especially relevant pick for Pride Month, check out Given Up for You to see what White has to say.

Like Family is a 2025 novel by Erin O. White. A new voice in fiction delves into a story that The Boston Globe describes as a ‘loving sprawl of busy lives, the happy and sometimes messy web of friends and children and chosen family’. Pick up a copy of this book and find out why People calls this a ‘moving story of betrayal, grief and forgiveness’.

When an almost stranger dies in their small town, a group of friends who are very close are about to find out that they can no longer turn a blind eye to their desires which have lain sleeping for so long and their unfulfilled dreams.

It was all too much to ask, but sometimes we ask too much of the people that we care about the most. In Radclyffe, New York, everything seems perfect in this idyllic town located upstate. It is set in the hills and nestles in there, full of artisanal bakeries, pottery studios, and little hidden swimming holes.

Ruth is married to her wife, Wyn. Together they are living the dream, or at least Wyn’s dream. They have four children located on their small farm, which is the perfect place to gather for all of their friends. It’s a wonderful life that is very sweet but it is also hiding a secret at the center– one that not even Caroline, Ruth’s best friend, knows.

The thing that Caroline does know is that she cares about Ruth and loves and depends on her as well as the bond that exists between their families. Over it all, she wants to make sure that her tender son does not grow up lonely in the same way that she did.

But the unfortunate thing is that no one is going to be able to assure her of that, certainly not her husband. He wants things to be easy and without drama, something that seems especially ironic since he has chosen to donate his sperm to his cousin and her wife to have kids of their own. Now those kids are asking questions that are really tough to answer.

When there is a death in the community that they did not see coming, all three couples are going to have to take on the tensions that have been buried beneath the surfaces of their lives. Textured and with a big heart, this debut is a story that you won’t forget about love, loyalty, and friends. Read Like Family from Erin O. White to follow along with every word.