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Oscar Wilde's Prison Library's Reading List

Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 43 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.

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Favorite books (2022)

Favorite books recommended by Oscar Wilde's Prison Library, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/oscar-wilde-favorite-books/.

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City of God
St. Augustine (also rec’d by Martin Luther King Jr. ) · Buy on Amazon
The Confessions
St. Augustine · Buy on Amazon
Works
Charles Baudelaire · Buy on Amazon
The Pilgrim’s Progress
John Bunyan · Buy on Amazon
The Prioress’s Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer · Buy on Amazon
The Divine Comedy
Dante (also rec’d by Patti Smith, Susan Sontag & Tina Turner ) · Buy on Amazon
La Vita Nuova
Dante · Buy on Amazon
Trois Contes
Gustave Flaubert · Buy on Amazon
La Tentation de St Antoin
Gustave Flaubert · Buy on Amazon
Illumination
Harold Frederic · Buy on Amazon
The Passes of the Pyrenees
Charles L Freeston · Buy on Amazon
Faust
Goethe (also rec’d by Susan Sontag ) · Buy on Amazon
Brittany
Baring Gould · Buy on Amazon
The Well-Beloved
Thomas Hardy · Buy on Amazon
Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature
William Paton Ker · Buy on Amazon
The Courtship of Morrice Buckler: A Romance
AEW Mason · Buy on Amazon
An Essay on Comedy
George Meredith · Buy on Amazon
The History of the Jews
Henry Hart Milman · Buy on Amazon
History of Latin Christianity
Henry Hart Milman · Buy on Amazon
History of Rome
Theodor Mommsen · Buy on Amazon
Juvenile Offenders
William Douglas Morrison · Buy on Amazon
A History of Ancient Greek Literature
Gilbert Murray · Buy on Amazon
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
John Henry Newman · Buy on Amazon
Two Essays on Miracles
John Henry Newman · Buy on Amazon
The Idea of a University
John Henry Newman · Buy on Amazon
Provincial Letters
Blaise Pascal · Buy on Amazon
Pensées
Blaise Pascal · Buy on Amazon
The Renaissance
Walter Pater · Buy on Amazon
Gaston de Latour
Walter Pater · Buy on Amazon
Miscellaneous Studies
Walter Pater · Buy on Amazon
Egyptian Decorative Art
WM Flinders Petrie · Buy on Amazon
Letters and Memoir
Dante Gabriel Rossetti · Buy on Amazon
Quo Vadis
Henryk Sienkiewicz · Buy on Amazon
The Student’s Chaucer
Walter William Skeat · Buy on Amazon
The Study of Dante
JA Symons · Buy on Amazon

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