What to Read After The Prince
Readers who loved The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Prince 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 The Prince
Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
On Liberty
Utopia
Leviathan
The Social Contract
Candide
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Notes From Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections From the House of the Dead
Othello
The Canterbury Tales
The Interpretation of Dreams
Walden
Siddhartha
The Prophet
War and Peace
The Art of War
Atlas Shrugged
Inferno
Philosophical essays concerning human understanding
The Social Contract and Discourses
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
Two Treatises on Government
Heart of Darkness
Robinson Crusoe