What to Read After Grendel
Readers who loved Grendel by John Gardner keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Grendel 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 Grendel
Beowulf
Voyage to Arcturus
Well of the Unicorn
Was
The Complete Compleat Enchanter
Three Hearts and Three Lions
Time and the Gods
The Conan chronicles
Gloriana
The Art of Fiction
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818 text)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
A Separate Peace
The Canterbury Tales
The Things They Carried
The Crying of Lot 49
As I Lay Dying
Titus Andronicus
Our Town
Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
The Red Badge of Courage
Absalom, Absalom!