What to Read After Gertrude and Claudius
Readers who loved Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Gertrude and Claudius 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 Gertrude and Claudius
Shalimar the Clown
The Puttermesser Papers
Shakespeare the Thinker
Hamlet
Nothing Like the Sun
The Witches of Eastwick
Rabbit at Rest
Rabbit Redux
A month of Sundays
Rabbit, Run
The Human Stain
Myra Breckinridge
The Centaur
Terrorist
Martin Dressler
Winter's Tale
True history of the Kelly gang
Burr
Murder in the Cathedral
The City and the Pillar
Mason & Dixon.
Despair
Telegraph Avenue
The Optimist's Daughter