What to Read After Tolkien
Readers who loved Tolkien by Lin Carter keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Tolkien 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 Tolkien
Master of Middle-earth
Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues
The war of the jewels
The magical worlds of the Lord of the Rings
The new Tolkien companion
The Lays of Beleriand
Following Gandalf
Morgoth's Ring
Mr Bliss
The War of the Ring
The Tolkien Reader
Smith of Wooten Major and Farmer Giles of Ham
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Book of Lost Tales [2/2]
The letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Shaping of Middle-Earth
TOLKIEN'S RING
The peoples of Middle-earth
Splintered light
Ring of Words
The strain
J.R.R. Tolkien's sanctifying myth
Marilyn Manson
Tolkien and the Great War