What to Read After The American language
Readers who loved The American language by H. L. Mencken keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The American language 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 The American language
The frontier in American history
Patriotic gore
The liberal imagination
The Gate of Heavenly Peace
The taming of chance
Working
Aspects of the Novel
The education of Henry Adams
Religion and the rise of capitalism
The Strange Death of Liberal England
The affluent society
Vermeer
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
The Proper Study of Mankind
Eminent Victorians
Shooting an Elephant and other essays
The nature and destiny of man
The general theory of employment, interest and money
Up from Slavery
The Second World War
The Art of Memory
Treatise on the Gods (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)
A Study of History
A Mencken chrestomathy