What to Read After The Last Empire
Readers who loved The Last Empire by Gore Vidal keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Last Empire 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 The Last Empire
The Naked and the Dead
A Mencken chrestomathy
The Little locksmith
My Lai 4
Savage beauty
Monsieur Proust
A quiet storm
A monetary history of the United States 1867-1960
It takes a village
Inherit the wind
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Eleanor Roosevelt
Manticore
The Scarecrow of Oz
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Less than Zero
Franny and Zooey
Valley of the dolls
Ethan Frome
Letters to a young poet
Howl
The holy barbarians