What to Read After A History of Knowledge
Readers who loved A History of Knowledge by Charles Lincoln Van Doren keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where A History of Knowledge 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 A History of Knowledge
The passion of the Western mind
The Creators
The Lessons of History
The closing of the Western mind
Aristotle's Children
Ideas
The western intellectual tradition
The Seekers
The Human Story
Human Accomplishment
Women in the days of cathedrals
The axemaker's gift
Against the current
Great Philosophers
From Dawn to Decadence
How to think about the great ideas
The Story of Philosophy
The ascent of man
Thinking In Time
The Age of Voltaire
The Modern Mind
The Story of Civilization V
The Story of Civilization VI
Warrior politics