What to Read After Assistant
Readers who loved Assistant by Bernard Malamud keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Assistant 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 Assistant
The adventures of Augie March
The Day of the Locust
Call It Sleep
Herzog
The sportswriter
Appointment in Samarra
The Painted Bird
Deliverance
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Berlin stories
Falconer
Dog soldiers.
UNDER THE NET
The sot-weed factor.
The death of the heart.
Loving
Fixer
At Swim-Two-Birds
The Man Who Loved Children
The Recognitions
Dog soldiers
Revolutionary Road
Gogol's Wife and Other Stories
The Golden Notebook