What to Read After Assommoir
Readers who loved Assommoir by Émile Zola keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Assommoir 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 Assommoir
The Nun (Oxford World's Classics)
Fantômas
Bouvard and Pecuchet
Le ventre de Paris
Pot-bouille
Charterhouse of Parma
Quatrevingt-treize
Les Enfants Terribles
The Ladies' Paradise
Marius
La Condition Humaine
The Red and the Black
Caligula, Suivi De Le Malentendu
Have mercy on us all
Germinal
L'Éducation Sentimentale
The Fight
Three Musketeers
Mémoires D'Hadrien
Le Colonel Chabert
Journey to the End of the Night
The Way We Live Now
Taras Bulba
Coming up for Air