What to Read After My Lives
Readers who loved My Lives by Edmund White keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where My Lives 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 My Lives
Dancer from the Dance
The Spell
Love in a Dark Time
A place I've never been
De profundis
Bosie
Strangers
Bitter Eden
Eminent outlaws
The farewell symphony
City Boy
Mother of Sorrows
The Beautiful Room Is Empty
Christopher and his kind
A boy's own story
The Flaneur
Jack Holmes and his friend
Like people in history
Borrowed Time
Marcel Proust
Grief
The Swimming-Pool Library
Palimpsest
The Lost Language of Cranes