Edmund White Reading Order
1 series · 55 books
Edmund White is an American novelist and essayist whose explorations of gay identity and experience have shaped contemporary literary fiction. His body of work examines the evolution of homosexuality in American culture, with particular attention to the AIDS crisis and its profound impact on queer communities. Through lyrical prose and biographical insight, White has created a significant chronicle of gay life in America, establishing himself as both a literary artist and an important cultural historian.
Standalone Novels Series
Complete55 books
Start with A boy's own story, the first of 55 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | A Previous Life |
| 2 | A Saint from Texas |
| 3 | A boy's own story ; and, The beautiful room is empty |
| 4 | Arts and letters |
| 5 | Bad Company |
| 6 | Between Men |
| 7 | Chaos |
| 8 | City Boy |
| 9 | Corps à corps |
| 10 | Edmund White/Samuel Delany, Vol. 16, No. 3 |
| 11 | Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story |
| 12 | Forgetting Elena |
| 13 | Fresh men |
| 14 | Gebrauchsanweisung für Paris. |
| 15 | Humble Lover |
| 16 | Inside A Pearl |
| 17 | Intrigue in the shadow of the guillotine |
| 18 | Jack Holmes and his friend |
| 19 | Loss within Loss |
| 20 | Loves of My Life |
| 21 | Mirrors |
| 22 | Nocturnes for the King of Naples |
| 23 | Our Paris |
| 24 | Our young man |
| 25 | Parkett |
| 26 | RECORD TIME |
| 27 | Rimbaud |
| 28 | Sacred monsters |
| 29 | Sketches from memory |
| 30 | Skinned alive |
| 31 | States of desire revisited |
| 32 | Terre haute |
| 33 | The Darker Proof |
| 34 | The Faber book of gay short fiction |
| 35 | The Farewell Symphony |
| 36 | The First Men |
| 37 | The Married Man |
| 38 | The Other Persuasion |
| 39 | The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories |
| 40 | The Vintage Book of Amnesia |
| 41 | The unpunished vice |
| 42 | Untitled Novel 2 |
| 43 | A boy's own story 1983 |
| 44 | States of desire 1983 |
| 45 | Caracole 1986 |
| 46 | Genet 1988 |
| 47 | The Beautiful Room Is Empty 1988 |
| 48 | The Violet Quill Reader 1995 |
| 49 | The burning library 1995 |
| 50 | Gay Travels 1998 |
| 51 | Proust 2000 |
| 52 | The Flaneur 2001 |
| 53 | Fanny 2003 |
| 54 | Hotel de Dream 2007 |
| 55 | My Lives 2007 |
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has Edmund White written?
- Edmund White has written 55 books across 1 series. Their published works span from 1983 to 2007.
- Are Edmund White's series complete?
- Edmund White has 1 completed series.