What to Read After Walden, Civil disobedience, and other writings
Readers who loved Walden, Civil disobedience, and other writings by Henry David Thoreau keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Walden, Civil disobedience, and other writings 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 Walden, Civil disobedience, and other writings
The Canterbury Tales
An introduction to Hinduism
Touchstone anthology of contemporary creative nonfiction
The Waste Land
The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven
Ishmael
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Welcome to the Monkey House
Player Piano
Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)
Richard III
As I Lay Dying
Utopia
King Lear
Ulysses
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Nine Stories
Walden
"The yellow wallpaper" and other stories
The Tempest
Dubliners
Paradise Lost
Native Son