What to Read After The Dead
Readers who loved The Dead by James Joyce keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Dead 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 The Dead
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Benito Cereno
May Day
The new Bloomsday book
The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
The Lesson of the Master
The complete shorter fiction of Virginia Woolf
My Life
Finnegans Wake
A Rose for Emily
A Hunger Artist (Short Prose of Franz Kafka Series)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Young Goodman Brown
Dubliners
The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Notes From Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections From the House of the Dead
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Cathedral
The Waste Land
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Ulysses
The aleph (including the prose fictions from The Maker)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The Complete Stories