What to Read After War and the Iliad
Readers who loved War and the Iliad by Simone Weil keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where War and the Iliad 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 War and the Iliad
The world of Odysseus
Lyrical and critical
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent
The waste books
Illness as metaphor
Prisons we choose to live inside
Grief Lessons
In the Freud archives
The Hall of Uselessness
Hedgehog and the Fox
Regarding the Pain of Others
Laocoon
Jejuri
Warning to the West
On violence
Persecution and the art of writing
Men and gods
On Being Blue
Styles of Radical Will
The liberal imagination
Masscult and midcult
Essays
Why Homer matters
Patriotic gore