What to Read After Leviathan
Readers who loved Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Leviathan 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 Leviathan
The Social Contract
The second treatise of government
Two Treatises on Government
Philosophical essays concerning human understanding
On Liberty
Reflections on the revolution in France
A theory of justice
Utopia
The Republic of Plato
The Prince
Utilitarianism
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed.
Discourse on the method for conducting one's reason well and for seeking truth in the sciences
Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
A treatise of human nature
Groundwork of the metaphysics of morals
Essay concerning human understanding
Basic Political Writings
Ethics (Penguin Classics)
Nicomachean Ethics
Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books)
Plato Five Dialogues
The Critique of Practical Reason (Large Print Edition)
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo