What to Read After Essays
Readers who loved Essays by Charles Baudelaire keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Essays 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 Essays
Picture Theory
Laocoon
Baudelaire.
Finding a Form
The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry
Sacred Wood
The Banquet Years
The Painting of Modern Life
On Wine and Hashish
Paris Spleen
Relational Aesthetics
Aesthetic Theory
Illu Minations and Other Prose Poems
A Season in Hell & Illuminations (Modern Library Classics)
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Flowers of Evil
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Illuminations
Niebla
Dali
Camera Lucida
Blood wedding
Poema de mio Cid
Simulacra and Simulation