What to Read After The Inklings
Readers who loved The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Inklings 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 Inklings
J.R.R. Tolkien
The letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
The road to Middle-Earth
Tolkien and the Great War
The Tolkien Reader
Jack
The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays
Tolkien and C.S. Lewis
The Narnian
C. S. Lewis
Tolkien On Fairy-stories
The Discarded Image
The Lord of the Rings
The Lost Road and Other Writings
Through the Shadowlands
Ring of Words
Splintered Light
Shaping of Middle-Earth
The Fall of Arthur
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book
Bilbo's Last Song (At the Grey Havens)
The War of the Ring
Poems
The Allegory of Love