What to Read After How to read and why
Readers who loved How to read and why by Harold Bloom keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where How to read and why 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 How to read and why
How fiction works
Great Books
Shakespeare
A Reading Diary
Anatomy of criticism
The new lifetime reading plan
Classics for Pleasure
Axel's castle
Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce
A literature of their own
Every book its reader
The Western canon
How to read literature like a professor
Genius
Why read the classics?
The anxiety of influence
Reading Like a Writer
The Best Poems of the English Language
The American religion
How to Read Novels Like a Professor
In the shadow of young girls in flower
The book of imaginary beings
The Book of J
An experiment in criticism