What to Read After The Idiot
Readers who loved The Idiot by Elif Batuman keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Idiot 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 Idiot
The rules do not apply
Swing Time
Homesick For Another World
The Mothers
All Grown Up
South and West
Sweetbitter
Marlena
Too much and not the mood
Goodbye, Vitamin
One day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter
Startup
The flamethrowers
Answers
You too can have a body like mine
We are Never Meeting in Real Life
Outline
Transit
The Possessed
There are more beautiful things than Beyoncé
10:04
Priestdaddy
What Belongs to You
How to Murder Your Life