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Books like The Picture of Dorian Gray
A seductive descent into vanity and moral decay, wrapped in velvet and poisoned with wit. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The Picture of Dorian Gray.
- opulent
- seductive
- claustrophobic
- eerie
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
A sparkling, laugh-out-loud comedy of manners where the greatest crime one can commit is being boring.
- 02
À rebours
J.K. Huysmans · 1972
A plotless, suffocatingly lush descent into the ultimate aesthetic obsession and aristocratic decay.
- 03
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Oscar Wilde
A sparkling, paradoxical essay that dismantles the nobility of suffering and dreams of a world where art and leisure belong to everyone.
- 04
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
A deeply internal, language-obsessed journey of shedding the suffocating weights of religion and nation to forge a new self.
- 05
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James · 1996
A gilded cage slowly closing around a fiercely independent spirit.
- 06
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Monsieur Oscar Wilde
A sparkling, razor-sharp romp through high society where the only thing taken seriously is absolute triviality.
- 07
A Scandal in Bohemia
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1996
A gaslit battle of wits where a famously arrogant genius is delightfully outmaneuvered.
- 08
The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
A glittering, champagne-soaked tragedy about the hollow pursuit of an impossible past.
- 09
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Monsieur Oscar Wilde
A haunting poetic reflection on the bleakness of incarceration and the heavy toll of exile.
- 10
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle · 2005
Step into a fog-drenched London where a brilliant, eccentric mind turns the chaos of murder into an elegant puzzle.
- 11
Daisy Miller
Henry James
A sun-drenched, gossipy stroll through European high society that slowly tightens into a tragic clash of innocence and rigid tradition.
- 12
The Black Cat
John Milne · 1996
A claustrophobic plunge into the darkest, most perverse corners of a guilty conscience.
