What to Read After The Turk
Readers who loved The Turk by Tom Standage keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Turk 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 Turk
Bobby Fischer Goes to War
Edison's Eve
A pickpocket's tale
Mysterious Stranger
Fooling Houdini
Learned pigs & fireproof women
Bringing down the house
Hiding the Elephant
The Secret Life of Houdini
Birth of the Chess Queen
The Immortal Game
Bobby Fischer teaches chess
The Professor and the Madman CD
Zeitoun
The Big Sleep
In the Heart of the Sea
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
In the garden of beasts
Moneyball
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Breakfast of champions, or, Goodbye blue Monday!
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Y The Last Man, Vol. 1
God Is Not Great