What to Read After Masscult and Midcult
Readers who loved Masscult and Midcult by Dwight Macdonald keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Masscult and Midcult 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 Masscult and Midcult
The Mountain Lion
On Being Blue
On Beauty and Being Just.
Radical Chic
Miss Manners' guide to excruciatingly correct behavior
Poor People
The Hall of Uselessness
Class
Changing My Mind
Social Darwinism in American Thought
War and the Iliad
Indian Summer
The Image
The Ivory Tower
The Stammering Century
This Old Man
The Furies
The David Foster Wallace Reader
Crowds and Power
The Liberal Imagination
Twenty days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa
Lucky Jim.
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Freedom