What to Read After Imagined communities
Readers who loved Imagined communities by Benedict Anderson keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Imagined communities 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 Imagined communities
Culture and imperialism
Nation and Nationalism
Discipline and Punish
Nations and nationalism since 1780
Orientalism
The interpretation of cultures
The location of culture
The Invention of tradition
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Seeing Like a State
Outline of a theory of practice
Social origins of dictatorship and democracy
Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1990
States and social revolutions
Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci.
Europe and the people without history
Modernity at large
The country and the city
Silencing the Past (20th Anniversary Edition)
The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language
Mythologies
Homo sacer
One-Dimensional Man
The order of things