What to Read After Persecution and the Art of Writing
Readers who loved Persecution and the Art of Writing by Leo Strauss keep reaching for these 14 books. This list is built from where Persecution and the Art of Writing 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 Persecution and the Art of Writing
On Tyranny
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century
St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics (Norton Critical Editions)
The Presocratic Philosophers
Thoughts on Machiavelli
Manliness
War and the Iliad
Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays
Natural Law and Natural Rights
The Sense of Reality
The closing of the American mind
Reflections on the revolution in France
The Prince
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings