What to Read After Bach
Readers who loved Bach by John Eliot Gardiner keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Bach 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 Bach
Schubert's Winter Journey
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Classical Style
Evening in the Palace of Reason
Words Without Music
Beethoven
The Rest Is Noise
The great pianists
The classical style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
The Odyssey of Homer (P.S.)
Samuel Pepys
Life of Samuel Johnson
The Childhood of Jesus
Means of Ascent
Harvest
Musicophilia
Elizabeth Costello
The Path To Power
On the move
Oresteia
Two years eight months and twenty-eight nights
Surprised by Joy
Pnin
The better angels of our nature