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A fever dream of nocturnal wanderings and agonizing erotic obsession, told in lush, labyrinthine prose. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Nightwood.
- nocturnal
- feverish
- decadent
- claustrophobic
- 01
A Spy in the House of Love
Anaïs Nin · 1978
A feverish, poetic plunge into the fragmented psyche of a woman chasing desire to escape herself.
- 02
Henry and June
Anais Nin · 1986
An uncensored, deeply intimate plunge into a year of bohemian passion, sexual awakening, and tangled desires.
- 03
La bâtarde
Violette Leduc · 1965
A feverish, unapologetic plunge into the depths of desire, shame, and the fierce pursuit of self-creation.
- 04
Rubyfruit Jungle
Rita Mae Brown · 1987
A fiercely funny, unapologetic romp through mid-century America that celebrates living loudly and loving women without an ounce of shame.
- 05
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein · 1933
A witty, name-dropping stroll through the Parisian avant-garde, told through a brilliant act of literary ventriloquism.
- 06
Tender is the Night
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
A sun-drenched, tragic portrait of beautiful people slowly destroying each other on the French Riviera.
- 07
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin · 1993
A devastating, beautifully written confession of doomed love and the tragic cost of denying one's own heart.
- 08
The well of loneliness
Radclyffe Hall · 1928
A sweeping, melancholic tragedy of forbidden love and the agonizing search for a place in a world that demands conformity.
- 09
Incest
Nin, Anais · 1992
An unsparing, uncensored plunge into the raw psychological depths and transgressive desires of a woman seeking salvation through her own words.
- 10
Olivia
Dorothy Bussy · 1976
A delicate, hothouse portrait of adolescent yearning and the devastating intensity of first infatuation.
- 11
Delta of Venus
Anaïs Nin · 1977
A lush, dreamlike descent into bohemian decadence and the unapologetic depths of female desire.
- 12
Zami
Audre Lorde · 1984
A lush, mythic exploration of self-discovery, tracing the fierce and tender lineages of women who shape a life.
