What to Read After Opium
Readers who loved Opium by Jean Cocteau keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Opium 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 Opium
Anthology
LA Batarde
The Last Days
Confessions of an English opium eater
Saint Genet, actor & martyr
My friends
Last nights of Paris
A Journey Round My Skull
Cain's Book
Journal du voleur
Opium for the Masses
On wine and hashish
Brief an den Vater
The infernal machine and other plays
Beauty and the beast
Ghost of chance
Queer
Interzone
Story of the eye
Les Enfants Terribles
Exterminator!
Lonesome Traveler
Satori in Paris
The subterraneans