What to Read After The Lottery
Readers who loved The Lottery by Shirley Jackson keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Lottery 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 Lottery
The Cask of Amontillado
A Rose for Emily
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories
Minister's Black Veil
The most dangerous game
Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories
The Scarlet Ibis (Classic Short Stories)
The Monkey's Paw
The Tell-Tale Heart
The ones who walk away from Omelas
The gift of the Magi
The necklace and other short stories
"The yellow wallpaper" and other stories
To Build a Fire
Young Goodman Brown
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales [15 stories]
Pit and the Pendulum
Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [34 stories, 17 poems]
A good man is hard to find
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Masque of the Red Death