What to Read After The Republic of Plato
Readers who loved The Republic of Plato by Allan David Bloom keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Republic of Plato 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 Republic of Plato
Leviathan
Four Texts on Socrates
Early Greek philosophy
Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)
The second treatise of government
An enquiry concerning the principles of morals
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward As Science With Kant's Letter to Marcus Herz, February 27, 1772
Concerning the city of God against the pagans
The portable Nietzsche
The Odyssey of Homer (P.S.)
The closing of the American mind
Tucker Marx-Engels Reader
Nicomachean Ethics
Plato Five Dialogues
The landmark Thucydides
Reflections on the revolution in France
Walden, and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Plato's Sophist
The Human Condition
Clouds
The Everlasting Man
After virtue
Basic Political Writings
Iliad