What to Read After Life of Samuel Johnson
Readers who loved Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Life of Samuel Johnson 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 Life of Samuel Johnson
Diaries of Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys
Eminent Victorians
The education of Henry Adams
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Melville
The History of England
The History of Tom Jones
Les confessions
Paradise Lost
Asimov's annotated Paradise lost.
The prelude
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2
Good-Bye to All That
Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress
In memoriam
The poems
The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Yeats's poetry, drama, and prose
The Second World War
Boswell's London journal, 1762-1763
The Great War and Modern Memory