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

Violet to Vita The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-1921 — Mitchell A. Leaska

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

Mitchell A. Leaska

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Letters

I, AmDram — Hannah Maxwell

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

Lives of the Wives Five Literary Marriages — Carmela Ciuraru

Lives of the Wives Five Literary Marriages

Carmela Ciuraru

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

Figuring Sex Between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester — Paul Hammond

Figuring Sex Between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester

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

Resist Everything Except Temptation The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde — Kristian Williams

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

Chance Witness An Outsider’s Life in Politics

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

Free & Proud — Charles Gershman

Charles Gershman

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

Quaint Honour — Roger Gellert

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

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

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

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Letters

Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days — Jack Zipes

Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • European

Letters from Tove — Tove Jansson

Letters from Tove

Themes: LGBTQ+ Studies • Letters • European

De Profundis and Other Writings — Oscar Wilde

De Profundis and Other Writings

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

The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu — Mary Wortley Montagu

The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu

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

Hindoo Holiday An Indian Journal — J. R. Ackerley

Hindoo Holiday An Indian Journal

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

The Collected Essays and Letters of Virginia Woolf — Virginia Woolf

The Collected Essays and Letters of Virginia Woolf

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

The Diary of Samuel Pepys A Selection — Samuel Pepys

The Diary of Samuel Pepys A Selection

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

The Presidents’ Letters An Unexpected History of Ireland — Flor MacCarthy

The Presidents’ Letters An Unexpected History of Ireland

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

Posting it The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing — Catherine Golden

Posting it The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing

Catherine Golden

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

Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen — Sheila Johnson Kindred

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

Sheila Johnson Kindred

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

Instead of a Book Letters to a Friend — Diana Athill

Instead of a Book Letters to a Friend

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

W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore Their Correspondence 1901-1937 — Ursula Bridge

W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore Their Correspondence 1901-1937

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

Facing Unpleasant Facts Narrative Essays — George Orwell

Facing Unpleasant Facts Narrative Essays

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

Diaries — George Orwell

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

The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas — Dylan Thomas

The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas — Dylan Thomas

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 Mitchell A. Leaska, Hannah Maxwell, Carmela Ciuraru, Paul Hammond, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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