What to Read After The Secret State
Readers who loved The Secret State by Peter Hennessy keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Secret State 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 Secret State
Empire
Pagan Britain
The Famine Plot
Secret Affairs
Human Universe
Philby
On Power
My Silent War
Mirage Men
Akenfield
Seasons in the sun
Never Had It So Good
Devils Advocate
The Sword and the Shield
The Mitrokhin archive
Strange Days Indeed
Virtual Community
Comanches
Glencoe
SS-GB
Dominion
Consider Phlebas
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Red Dragon