What to Read After Descartes' Bones
Readers who loved Descartes' Bones by Russell Shorto keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Descartes' Bones 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 Descartes' Bones
Against the current
The Invention of Air
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Faithful Executioner
Why Socrates died
The little book of atheist spirituality
Natural Theology
A short history of philosophy
The courtier and the heretic
The island at the center of the world
Hadrian
The Knife Man
Bright-sided
The Little Ice Age
The Invention of Nature
The Immortal Game
The final days
Eisenhower in War and Peace
The House of Morgan
Metaphysical Club
Midnight rising
The indifferent stars above
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The revenge of geography