What to Read After Melville
Readers who loved Melville by Andrew Delbanco keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Melville 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 Melville
Dostoevsky
Billy Budd and Other Tales
White-Jacket
The Confidence Man
Thomas Hardy
Life of Samuel Johnson
Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
Experience
Sesame and Lilies, three lectures
Hopper
Call Me Ishmael
Pierre
Flaubert and Madame Bovary
Edith Wharton
Israel Potter
Facing Unpleasant Facts
Patriotic Gore
Freud
Reading Rilke
Teaching Literature
Twenty days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa
Years with Ross
The selected writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leviathan