What to Read After Wessex tales
Readers who loved Wessex tales by Thomas Hardy keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Wessex tales 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 Wessex tales
Scenes of Clerical Life
Thomas Hardy
The Aspern Papers
The trumpet-major
Small avalanches and other stories
To Let
Under the Greenwood Tree or, The Mellstock quire
A pair of blue eyes
The Woodlanders
The Well-beloved
Two on a tower
Desperate Remedies
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Return of the Native
Jude the Obscure
Life's little ironies
The hand of Ethelberta
Adam Bede
The Laodicean
Armadale
Poor Miss Finch
Barry Lyndon
Basil
Felix Holt, the radical