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Edmund White’s Book Picks

  1. 1

    Lolita

    Vladimir Nabokov · 1777

  2. 2
    BookAnna KareninaLeo Tolstoy, Phillip Breen · 2025

    Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy, Phillip Breen · 2025

  3. 3

    A single man

    Christopher Isherwood · 1964

  4. 4

    Swann's Way

    Marcel Proust · 1908

  5. 5

    Our Lady of the Flowers

    Jean Genet · 1948

  6. 6

    The Makioka sisters

    谷崎潤一郎 · 1944

  7. 7

    Cathay

    Ezra Pound · 2010

  8. 8

    The Phaedrus of Plato

    Plato · 1792

  9. 9

    Chéri

    Colette · 1900

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Lolita, Anna Karenina, A Single Man and 7 more books selected by Edmund White.

Ten books selected by Edmund White for One Grand.

Source: https://onegrandbooks.com/shop/curators/writers/edmund-white

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov
  2. Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy, Phillip Breen
  3. A single man — Christopher Isherwood
  4. Swann's Way — Marcel Proust
  5. Our Lady of the Flowers — Jean Genet
  6. The Makioka sisters — 谷崎潤一郎
  7. Cathay — Ezra Pound
  8. The Phaedrus of Plato — Plato
  9. Chéri — Colette
  10. The Narrow Road to the Deep North — Richard Flanagan