What to Read After Buddenbrooks
Readers who loved Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Buddenbrooks 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 Buddenbrooks
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Mephisto
Billiards at half-past nine
German Lesson
Wilhelm Meister's years of apprenticeship
Doctor Faustus
Homo Faber
Tonio Kröger
Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Confessions of Felix Krull, confidence man
Nathan der Weise
La storia
Simplicissimus (Dedalus European Classics)
Far Away and Long Ago
Clown (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Iphigenie auf Tauris
Arc de triomphe
Franz Kafka's The castle
Kabale und Liebe
Die Blechtrommel
Der Steppenwolf
Eugenie Grandet
Das Schloß
La père Goriot