What to Read After De rerum natura
Readers who loved De rerum natura by Titus Lucretius Carus keep reaching for these 18 books. This list is built from where De rerum natura 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 De rerum natura
The poems of exile
Epigrams
Pharsalia
The Eclogues
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2
The Idylls of Theocritus.
Ptolemy's Almagest
Enneads
Oresteia
Confessions
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
Inferno
Julius Caesar
The Prince
A Clockwork Orange
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus