What to Read After What it takes
Readers who loved What it takes by Richard Ben Cramer keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where What it takes 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 What it takes
The Path To Power
Game Change
The passage of power
Double down
This town
Before the Storm
The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York
Do not ask what good we do
The Professional
Winter's tale
The Survivor
The paranoid style in American politics
Affliction.
Legends of the fall
Political Brain
The victory lab
The crack-up
Let us now praise famous men
A fan's notes
A sense of where you are
Primary Colors
Going native
Boys on the Bus
Unsafe at any speed