What to Read After Forty stories
Readers who loved Forty stories by Donald Barthelme keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Forty stories 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 Forty stories
Mumbo Jumbo
Lost in the funhouse
The age of wire and string
The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce
Stories in the Worst Way
The book of the unknown
Stories in an almost classical mode
The dead father
In Pharaoh's army
Vineland.
Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust
The loser
Oil!
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
The stories of Vladimir Nabokov.
Jesus' son
V.
This is water
Without feathers
The complete poems, 1927-1979
Gravity's Rainbow
Inherent Vice
Pale Fire
Child of God