What to Read After Dante
Readers who loved Dante by Erich Auerbach keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Dante 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 Dante
House and Its Head
The Discarded Image
In the Freud archives
Vita Nuova
Grief Lessons
Il Purgatorio
War and the Iliad
The Search for the Perfect Language
My dog Tulip
Serendipities
The quest for Corvo
Giordano Bruno
The aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas
On Late Style
Indian Summer
Three Philosophical Poets
Hindoo Holiday
Men and Gods
Sex with Shakespeare
The Gnostic religion
My Father and Myself
Confessions of a Young Novelist
Image on the Edge
The Portable Hannah Arendt