What to Read After Paradise Lost
Readers who loved Paradise Lost by John Milton keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Paradise Lost 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 Paradise Lost
The Rape of the Lock
Beowulf
Faerie queene
The Canterbury Tales
Inferno
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Rime of the ancient mariner
The Complete Poems
King Lear
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
The Waste Land
Othello
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Taming of the Shrew
Beowulf
Pygmalion
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales [15 stories]
The Tempest
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Sonnets
Metamorphoses
Leaves of Grass
Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle