What to Read After The Meditations
Readers who loved The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Meditations 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 Meditations
A treatise of human nature
The essential Epicurus
Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)
The discourses of Epictetus
Philosophy as a way of life
Letters from a Stoic
Kill City blues
The heart of the Buddha's teaching
The Songs of Distant Earth
Ethics (Penguin Classics)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Hitch-22
Mortality
Puppet Masters
King Richard II
Winning
Free will
Mistborn
The Social Contract
Trapped
Paradise Lost
Confessions
The Winter King
A history of God