What to Read After Tristessa
Readers who loved Tristessa by Jack Kerouac keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Tristessa 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 Tristessa
Off the road
Go
The yage letters
Minor characters
Kerouac
The subterraneans
Desolation Angels
Visions of Cody
The Beat Hotel
Big Sur
Visions of Gerard
Lonesome Traveler
Women of the Beat Generation
Mexico City blues
Maggie Cassidy
Dr. Sax (Kerouac, Jack)
Satori in Paris
The Town and the City
The Dharma Bums
And the hippos were boiled in their tanks
Vanity of Duluoz
Scattered Poems
Memory babe
The happy birthday of death.