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)
Bouvard and Pecuchet
Fantômas
Le ventre de Paris
Pot-bouille
Quatrevingt-treize
Excercices de style
Les Enfants Terribles
Au bonheur des dames
Marius
La condition humaine
Le rouge et le noir
Pars vite et reviens tard
Germinal
L'Éducation sentimentale
Les Trois Mousquetaires
Mémoires d'Hadrien
Le Colonel Chabert
The way we live now
Taras Bulba
Coming up for Air
The Warden
Jacob's Room
La Chute