What to Read After Demian
Readers who loved Demian by Hermann Hesse keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Demian 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 Demian
Der Steppenwolf
Beneath the Wheel
The Journey to the East
Peter Camenzind
The aleph (including the prose fictions from The Maker)
Notes From Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections From the House of the Dead
The Burning Plain and Other Stories
Gertrude.
Pedro Páramo
Immortality
The Tunnel
Siddhartha
Bestiario
Rosshalde
The truce.
The doors of perception, and Heaven and hell.
Wilhelm Meister's years of apprenticeship
The Train Was on Time
Mephisto
Tonio Kroger
Transit
Ficciones
When Nietzsche Wept
Flowers of Evil