What to Read After Babel
Readers who loved Babel by Patti Smith keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Babel 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 Babel
The Happy Birthday of Death.
Long Live Man
Heaven and Other Poems
Stranger Music
Not me
Another bullshit night in Suck City
Killing Yourself to Live
Notes of a Dirty Old Man.
Howl, and Other Poems
The Dharma Bums
The Lover
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Just Kids
Less than Zero
Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
The Virgin Suicides (Bloomsbury Classic)
Tropic of Cancer
Freedom
Nine Stories
The Sense of an Ending
Tender is the Night
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
On The Road
Dubliners