What to Read After Essays
Readers who loved Essays by Francis Bacon keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Essays 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 Essays
Essays and aphorisms
Self Reliance and Other Essays
Rights of Man
Enneads
Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
Areopagitica
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2
The essential Epicurus
New science
Some fruits of solitude in reflections & maxims
Discourses on Livy
De anima
Essay concerning human understanding
Introduction to metaphysics
Utopia
The discourses of Epictetus
Discourse on the method for conducting one's reason well and for seeking truth in the sciences
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward As Science With Kant's Letter to Marcus Herz, February 27, 1772
A treatise of human nature
Two Treatises on Government
Utopia
Ethics (Penguin Classics)
The wisdom of life
Reflections on the revolution in France