What to Read After Bartleby, the Scrivener
Readers who loved Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Bartleby, the Scrivener is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Bartleby, the Scrivener
Young Goodman Brown
Benito Cereno
Billy Budd
A Rose for Emily
The Cask of Amontillado
A good man is hard to find
The Lesson of the Master
Bartleby & Co.
My life
The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
Rip Van Winkle
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Invisible Cities
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Notes From Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections From the House of the Dead
A Hunger Artist (Short Prose of Franz Kafka Series)
The aleph (including the prose fictions from The Maker)
The Invention of Morel
The Waste Land
Cathedral
As I Lay Dying
Ficciones
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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