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
Laocoon
Picture theory
Finding a Form
The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry
When Europe spoke French
The Painting of Modern Life
The banquet years
On wine and hashish
Paris Spleen
Relational aesthetics
Aesthetic theory
Illu minations and other prose poems
A Season in Hell & Illuminations (Modern Library Classics)
Illuminations
Niebla
Dali
Camera Lucida
Bodas de sangre
Poema de mio Cid
Simulacra and Simulation
Mythologies
How Proust can change your life
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
La Celestina