What to Read After The Art of the Story
Readers who loved The Art of the Story by Daniel Halpern keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Art of the Story 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 Art of the Story
Oxford Book of American Short Stories
The Vintage book of contemporary American short stories
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
How to be a Kenyan
Points of View
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
Who will run the frog hospital?
The art of fiction
Birds of America
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Bird by Bird
Darkness Visible
The Bloody Chamber
The tortilla curtain
Tenth of December
Writing Down the Bones
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A good man is hard to find
H Is for Hawk
Still Life with Woodpecker
White Noise
Nine Stories
Commonwealth
The Things They Carried