What to Read After Essays
Readers who loved Essays by George Orwell keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Essays 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 Essays
The Double and The Gambler
The Road to Wigan Pier
Complete short novels.
Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy (Perennial Classics)
Burmese Days
Shooting an Elephant and other essays
Homage to Catalonia
Night Train
A collection of essays
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Coming up for Air
The adventures of Augie March
Time of Gifts : On Foot to Constantinople
Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings (Penguin Classics)
Brighton rock
And Quiet Flows the Don
Seize the Day
Collected fictions
Cider with Rosie
The collected tales of Nikolai Gogol
Cities of the Plain
The subterraneans
Germinal
Pnin