What to Read After Great Books
Readers who loved Great Books by David Denby keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Great Books 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 Great Books
The New Lifetime Reading Plan
The Western canon
How to Read a Book
How to Read and Why
The Well-educated Mind
A Gentle Madness
A Great Idea at the Time
Classics for Pleasure
The Gutenberg Elegies
So Many Books, So Little Time
Bound to Please
Book of Lost Books
A Reader's Manifesto
The Lifetime Reading Plan
Through the Magic Door
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
The Books in My Life
Ptolemy's Almagest
From Dawn to Decadence
Insufferable Gaucho
A History of Reading
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Reading Like a Writer
Consider the Lobster