What to Read After The Contender
Readers who loved The Contender by Robert Lipsyte keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Contender 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 The Contender
The chocolate war
The Moves Make the Man
After the war
Dinky Hocker shoots smack
A hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich.
Miracle's Boys
Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity
Father's Arcane Daughter
Hoops
You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?
Night Hoops
The Outsiders
Deathwatch
Monster
The pigman
Day of Tears
My Brother Sam Is Dead
Rocket Boys
Fallen angels
The Gammage Cup (The Minnipins #1)
Where the lilies bloom
Red Scarf Girl
Weetzie Bat
Brian's Winter (Brian's Saga, #3)