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
Anatomy of Criticism
The New Lifetime Reading Plan
A Literature Of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing
Classics for Pleasure
Axel's Castle
Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce
A Reading Diary
Every Book Its Reader
The Western canon
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
An Experiment in Criticism
How to Read a Poem
A History of Reading