What to Read After Return
Readers who loved Return by Hisham Matar keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Return 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 Return
Hillbilly Elegy
In the Country of Men
The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria
Like a mule bringing ice cream to the sun
If the oceans were ink
The North water
The Sympathizer
Association of Small Bombs
Do not say we have nothing
Horse Walks into a Bar
Autumn
Home Fire
Days Without End
Family Life
Black Flags
Another day in the death of America
The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu
Headscarves and hymens
Every day is for the thief
On immunity
A Man in Love
Kinder than solitude
In the Darkroom
Patient H. M.