What to Read After Il Purgatorio
Readers who loved Il Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Il Purgatorio 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 Il Purgatorio
Il Paradiso
The Treasure of the City of Ladies, or, The Book of the Three Virtues
The Idea of a University
The First and Second Apologies
The Discarded Image
The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics)
Dante
The quest of the Holy Grail
Érec et Énide
L' Orlando furioso
The Major Works
Paradise Lost
The habit of being - Letters of Flannery O'Connor
Gilead
King Richard II
Imitation of Christ
Titus Andronicus
Tinkers
The Comedy of Errors
The Complete Stories
All the King's Men
The Waste Land
Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle
The End of the Affair (Twentieth Century Classics)