What to Read After Howl
Readers who loved Howl by Allen Ginsberg keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Howl 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 Howl
The Norton book of science fiction
Pomes all sizes
Women of the Beat Generation
The world of apples
The happy birthday of death.
Poems Retrieved
Howl, and Other Poems
The Last Empire
Lisa and David
The Waste Land
Big Sur
A clean well-lighted place
Queer
And the hippos were boiled in their tanks
Crush
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Paris Spleen
Reality Sandwiches, 1953-1960 (Pocket Poets Series, No. 18)
Nightwood
Gender Trouble
Song of myself
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