What to Read After Palimpsest
Readers who loved Palimpsest by Gore Vidal keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Palimpsest 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 Palimpsest
Patrimony
The farewell symphony
Subterranean Kerouac
Christopher and his kind
Secret Historian
Memoirs
Writing Home
PR!
Safe for democracy
Self-consciousness
Joseph Anton
Untold stories
Point to Point Navigation
Myra Breckinridge
The city and the pillar
Julian
Live from Golgotha
Empire
Burning The Days
1876
Burr
Kalki
Washington, D.C.
Lincoln (Narratives of a Golden Age)