What to Read After Against the Grain
Readers who loved Against the Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Against the Grain 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 Against the Grain
Contes Cruels
Marius the Epicurean
Maldoror
Locus Solus
Mademoiselle de Maupin
Moravagine
Bouvard and Pecuchet
Our Lady of the Flowers
L'Éducation Sentimentale
The Red and the Black
Charterhouse of Parma
Beware of pity
Mémoires D'Hadrien
Journey to the End of the Night
Lorenzaccio
Le ventre de Paris
Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein
Alcools
Belle du Seigneur
Chambermaid's Diary
Quatrevingt-treize
The Ladies' Paradise
Memoirs of a dutiful daughter
Therese Desqueyroux