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
How the Universe Got Its Spots
Father of Spin
Autobiography of Madame Guyon
Joseph Banks
The Scientists
Jung
Against the current
Radical Enlightenment
Unended Quest
Autobiography
The symbolism of evil
Three who made a revolution
T.S. Eliot
The age of atheists
The sun kings
Talleyrand
Betraying Spinoza
Pagans and Christians
What happened at Vatican II
Spinoza
The swerve
The Demon-Haunted World
Walden