What to Read After Descartes
Readers who loved Descartes by A. C. Grayling keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Descartes 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 Descartes
A Short History of Philosophy
Joseph Banks
Radical Enlightenment
Jung
Napoleon
Unended Quest
How the Universe Got Its Spots
The Father of Spin
The Scientists
Autobiography
Against the Current
Autobiography of Madame Guyon
The Symbolism of Evil
Pagans and Christians
The Sun Kings
What happened at Vatican II
Three Who Made a Revolution
Betraying Spinoza
The Age of Atheists
Invention of Capitalism
Spinoza
Talleyrand
T.S. Eliot
The Swerve