What to Read After Candide
Readers who loved Candide by Voltaire keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Candide 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 Candide
Madame Bovary
Antigone
Notes From Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections From the House of the Dead
Tartuffe
La père Goriot
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Canterbury Tales
Othello
Bel-Ami
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
King Lear
Heart of Darkness
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Siddhartha
Cyrano de Bergerac
A Farewell to Arms
Walden
Germinal
On The Road
Cat's Cradle
Mrs. Dalloway
Der Steppenwolf
The Prince