What to Read After Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
Readers who loved Sophocles' Oedipus Rex by Harold Bloom keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Sophocles' Oedipus Rex 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 Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
Neil Gaiman and philosophy
Tevye's Daughters
Shakespeare's bawdy
The secret scroll
Antigone
Keys to the Demon Prison
Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary
Death of a Salesman
The Tempest
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Othello
Cyrano de Bergerac
Fablehaven
The Crucible
Heart of Darkness
Bridge to Terabithia
King Lear
My Ántonia
Flawless
Beowulf
Sonnets
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Wide Sargasso Sea
Walden