What to Read After Genesis
Readers who loved Genesis by Robert Alter keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Genesis 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 Genesis
Genesis
A Biblical History of Israel
Acts for Everyone
The Letters of John
The David Story
The Five Books of Moses
Tucker Marx-Engels Reader
Surprised by Hope
Plato Five Dialogues
Confessions
Hitch-22
Collected Fictions
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Titus Andronicus
The Souls of Black Folk
The Reason for God
The Epic of Gilgamesh
slouching towards bethlehem
The Penelopiad
Consider the Lobster
Gilead
The Greatest Show on Earth
1491
Nicomachean Ethics