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
The well-educated mind
How to read and why
So many books, so little time
A great idea at the time
Classics for Pleasure
The Gutenberg Elegies
A gentle madness
A reader's manifesto
Ptolemy's Almagest
The lifetime reading plan
The books in my life
Through the Magic Door
The pleasures of reading in an age of distraction
From Dawn to Decadence
Insufferable Gaucho
A history of reading
Reading Like a Writer
Consider the Lobster
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Zen in the art of writing
The greater journey