What to Read After Essays
Readers who loved Essays by Wallace Shawn 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
For the Sake of Argument
About Writing
A Book of Common Prayer
Rich People Things
Half Empty
Hermit in Paris
War and the Iliad
Vintage Didion
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell
Way of Being Free
The Wordy Shipmates
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
slouching towards bethlehem
A Brief History of Seven Killings
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Born Standing Up
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Nine Stories
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
This Is How You Lose Her
Batman
Post Office
A People's History of the United States
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