What to Read After Pentimento
Readers who loved Pentimento by Lillian Hellman keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Pentimento 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 Pentimento
Growing up
The road from Coorain
Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol)
Memories of a Catholic girlhood
Simone de Beauvoir
The Unquiet Grave
The Words
Ways of Escape
Journal of Katherine Mansfield
Father and son
American Childhood
In the Castle of My Skin
Scoundrel Time
The Little Foxes
Palimpsest
Children's Hour (Acting Edition)
The flame trees of Thika
Personal History
West with the Night
Tender at the Bone
This Boy's Life
Julian
Zelda
Tropic of Capricorn