What to Read After The Western canon
Readers who loved The Western canon by Harold Bloom keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Western canon 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 Western canon
Great Books
The new lifetime reading plan
Shakespeare
Genius
Anatomy of criticism
The great code
How to read and why
How to Read a Book
How to Read Novels Like a Professor
Classics for Pleasure
The lifetime reading plan
The liberal imagination
The art of fiction
Great Books for Every Book Lover
The sense of an ending
A Splendor of Letters
The Penguin dictionary of literary terms and literary theory
Where shall wisdom be found?
The anxiety of influence
The Best Poems of the English Language
The collected poems of Wallace Stevens.
On Literature
Will in the World
The Guermantes way