What to Read After Hamlet
Readers who loved Hamlet by William Shakespeare keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Hamlet 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 Hamlet
Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle
Medea
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead
Old Man and the Sea
Macbeth
Othello
A Midsummer Night's Dream
King Lear
Beowulf
The Taming of the Shrew
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Romeo and Juliet
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
The Scarlet Letter
The Merchant of Venice
Antigone
The Tempest
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Canterbury Tales
The Crucible
Julius Caesar
Great Expectations
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn