What to Read After Genet
Readers who loved Genet by Edmund White keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Genet 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 Genet
Our lady of the flowers
Christopher and his kind
Miracle of the rose
Secret Historian
Querelle de Brest
Prick up your ears
Closer
The Naked Civil Servant
LA Batarde
In youth is pleasure
Rimbaud
The Orton diaries
Before night falls
Bosie
Prisoner of love
Dorian
My father and myself
Francis Bacon
Close to the Knives
A l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie
Eminent outlaws
Sarah
Love in a Dark Time
Serious pleasures