What to Read After Billy Budd and Other Tales
Readers who loved Billy Budd and Other Tales by Herman Melville keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Billy Budd and Other Tales 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 Billy Budd and Other Tales
The Canterbury Tales
Melville
Two souls indivisible
Letters from an American farmer ; and, Sketches of eighteenth-century America
An American Tragedy
The death of Ivan Ilyich and other stories
The Caine mutiny
Young Goodman Brown
Sister Carrie
The Day of the Locust
Babbitt
O Pioneers!
Hocus Pocus
Gift from the sea
The Complete Stories
The Red Badge of Courage
Jude the Obscure
The Razor's Edge
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Moll Flanders
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Light in August
The Jungle
Leviathan