What to Read After The Way Things Are
Readers who loved The Way Things Are by Titus Lucretius Carus keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Way Things Are 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 The Way Things Are
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2
Letters from a Stoic
The Eclogues
The Nature of the Gods
Enneads
Ptolemy's Almagest
Mencius (Penguin Classics)
The poems of Catullus
Aeneid
Sappho
Satyricon
Oresteia
Pensées
The discourses of Epictetus
Selected works
Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)
Theogony
Two Treatises on Government
The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX
Ovid with an English translation: Heroides and Amores
Philosophical essays concerning human understanding
Poetics
Fall of the Roman Republic
Odes