What to Read After For Common Things
Readers who loved For Common Things by Jedediah Purdy keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where For Common Things 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 For Common Things
Nerds 2.0.1
Cold War Civil Rights
A Republic, Not an Empire
Black Culture and Black Consciousness
Progress and poverty.
Ecology of fear
The culture of disbelief
In defense of elitism
The twilight of American culture
The Substance of Style
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Wolf Hall
Mrs. Dalloway
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Blink
On The Road
Water for Elephants
Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Lovely Bones
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Goldfinch
Life of Pi