What to Read After Despair
Readers who loved Despair by Vladimir Nabokov keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Despair 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 Despair
Envy (New York Review Books Classics)
Laughter in the Dark
Pnin
King, Queen, Knave
The real life of Sebastian Knight
Mary - A Novel
Ada
The stories of Vladimir Nabokov.
Bend Sinister
Speak, Memory
Transparent Things
Sofia Petrovna
Memories of the Future
The Queue
The Fierce and Beautiful World
Novel with Cocaine
Look at the Harlequins!
Enchanter
Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce
Lectures on Russian Literature
The original of Laura (Dying is fun)
The collected tales of Nikolai Gogol
Farewell Waltz
Crash