What to Read After Genius
Readers who loved Genius by Harold Bloom keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Genius 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 Genius
The Western canon
A history of fascism, 1914-1945
Flaubert and Madame Bovary
Diario minimo
The new lifetime reading plan
Break, blow, burn
Walking a literary labyrinth
On Literature
The Pound era.
Classics for Pleasure
The sense of an ending
Axel's castle
How to read and why
Shakespeare
Where shall wisdom be found?
The Book of J
The death of tragedy
The American religion
The collected poems of Wallace Stevens.
Paterson
Will in the World
Fernando Pessoa & Co.
The anxiety of influence
The Best Poems of the English Language