What to Read After The city and the pillar
Readers who loved The city and the pillar by Gore Vidal keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The city and the pillar 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 The city and the pillar
A single man
A boy's own story
Tales of the City
The Swimming-Pool Library
The Front Runner
Dancer from the Dance
The Lost Language of Cranes
Faggots
Christopher and his kind
City of night
The Beautiful Room Is Empty
Other Voices, Other Rooms
Maurice
Like people in history
Giovanni's Room
Call Me by Your Name
Eminent outlaws
The Carnivorous Lamb
At swim, two boys
Myra Breckinridge
The best little boy in the world
Martin and John
Changing Tides
The story of the night