What to Read After The Canterbury Tales
Readers who loved The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Canterbury Tales 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 Canterbury Tales
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Faerie queene
Paradise Lost
Inferno
Beowulf
Walden, Civil disobedience, and other writings
Billy Budd and Other Tales
Who Murdered Chaucer?
The Norton anthology of American literature
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Tamburlaine, parts I and II
Othello
"The yellow wallpaper" and other stories
The Taming of the Shrew
A Separate Peace
King Lear
The Crucible
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Pygmalion
The Importance of Being Earnest
Antigone
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Rime of the ancient mariner
The Complete Poems