What to Read After Axel's Castle
Readers who loved Axel's Castle by Edmund Wilson keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Axel's Castle 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 Axel's Castle
Language and Silence
Theory of Prose
Out of Sheer Rage
Studies in classic American literature
All That Is Solid Melts into the Air
The Anxiety of Influence
The Trespasser
The Liberal Imagination
Selected prose of T. S. Eliot
Culture and Anarchy; An Essay in Political and Social Criticism
The Common Reader
Fearful Symmetry
James Joyce
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
Genius
The Death of Tragedy
Art of the Novel
The Banquet Years
Cultural Amnesia
Mimesis
Proust's Way
This Craft of Verse
The Pound era.
Literary essays of Ezra Pound