What to Read After Essays
Readers who loved Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Essays 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 Essays
The Talisman
Martin Heidegger
The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism
Lyrical and critical
Robert Browning
Labyrinths
The Waves
Tao te Ching
Franny and Zooey
Infinite Jest
Under the Tuscan Sun
A Room with a View
Candide
Siddhartha
To the Lighthouse
Les Misérables
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Into Thin Air
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Othello
And the Mountains Echoed
The Tipping Point