What to Read After The Difficulty of Being
Readers who loved The Difficulty of Being by Jean Cocteau keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Difficulty of Being 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 Difficulty of Being
I Shock Myself
If it die--
The Autobiography of a Super-tramp
The Oasis
Insel
The Flame of a Candle
In Search of Duende
The Polyglots
Right Way to Do Wrong
Empire of Signs
The Infernal Machine and Other Plays
The Malady of Death
The ravishing of Lol Stein
Illu Minations and Other Prose Poems
Paris Spleen
No One Belongs Here More Than You
First Bad Man
Immortality
The Lover
NW
Ways of Seeing
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Labyrinths
On Beauty