Nocturnes for the King of Naples

5 best books like Nocturnes for the King of Naples (Edmund White): The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, The House of Impossible Beauties, The City and the Pillar, The Friend, The Monkey's Wrench

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
AuthorErnest Hemingway
ISBN0684862212
The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection...
The House of Impossible Beauties
AuthorJoseph Cassara
ISBN0062677004
It’s 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city’s glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem ball scene, where seventeen-year-old Angel first comes into her own. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, new to ball culture, and has a yearning inside...
AuthorGore Vidal
ISBN1400030374
A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience.

Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake...
AuthorSigrid Nunez
ISBN0735219451
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.

When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute...
The Monkey's Wrench
AuthorPrimo Levi
ISBN0140188924
In this exuberant and wildly funny novel, Primo Levi celebrates the joys of work and the art of storytelling. The magic is worked through the mesmerizing tales told by Libertini Faussone, a construction worker, and by the narrator, a writer-chemist, who share stories of their adventures. Faussone...
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