Read-alikes and related books

Books like De Profundis

What to read after De Profundis by Oscar Wilde: 24 titles sharing themes of Gay Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies, Letters, and English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Top related books to De Profundis

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

Figuring Sex Between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester

Paul Hammond

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Lives of the Wives Five Literary Marriages

Carmela Ciuraru

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Resist Everything Except Temptation The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde

Kristian Williams

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Chance Witness An Outsider’s Life in Politics

Matthew Parris

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Free & Proud

Charles Gershman

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

I, AmDram

Hannah Maxwell

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

The Diary of Samuel Pepys A Selection

Samuel Pepys

Themes: Letters • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu

Themes: Letters • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

Posting it The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing

Catherine Golden

Themes: Letters • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

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Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen

Sheila Johnson Kindred

Themes: Letters • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#11

De Profundis and Other Writings

Oscar Wilde

Themes: Letters • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#12

Violet to Vita The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-1921

Mitchell A. Leaska

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Letters

#13

Hindoo Holiday An Indian Journal

J. R. Ackerley

Themes: Letters • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#14

My Two Moms Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family

Zach Wahls

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Letters

#15

Quaint Honour

Roger Gellert

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#16

Instead of a Book Letters to a Friend

Diana Athill

Themes: Letters • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#17

Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent

Bruce Nugent

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Literary Criticism

#18

The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker The Dublin Years

Bram Stoker

Themes: Letters • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#19

Rimbaud A Biography

Graham Robb

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • European

#20

Recollections of a Literary Life Or, Books, Places, and People

Mary Russell Mitford

Themes: Letters • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#21

The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Themes: Letters • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#22

The Letters of Horace Walpole Fourth Earl of Orford, Volume 9

Horace Walpole

Themes: Letters • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#23

Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days

Jack Zipes

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • European

#24

Saving Lives Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Campaign for Body Armour, 1914-18

Philip Abbott

Themes: Letters • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with De Profundis by Oscar Wilde. Connected by Gay Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies, Letters. Authors featured include Paul Hammond, Carmela Ciuraru, Kristian Williams, Matthew Parris, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.