What to Read After Meditations
Readers who loved Meditations by Marcus Aurelius keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Meditations 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 Meditations
Letters from a Stoic
On the Shortness of Life
The Obstacle is the Way
The Social Contract
Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
The discourses of Epictetus
Mencius (Penguin Classics)
Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)
A Treatise of Human Nature
The Way Things Are
Philosophy as a Way of Life
The essential Epicurus
On Liberty
Nicomachean Ethics
A History of Western Philosophy
Leviathan
The Prince
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Tao te Ching
Walden
Candide
The Consolations of Philosophy
The trial and death of Socrates