What to Read After The Fifties
Readers who loved The Fifties by David Halberstam keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Fifties 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 Fifties
The glory and the dream
Furnace
One Summer
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Summer of '49
October 1964
The powers that be
The coldest winter
The final days
The Teammates
The breaks of the game
A World Lit Only by Fire
A Bright Shining Lie
Freedom from Fear
Vietnam, a history
The Brethren
The secret man
Wait Till Next Year
The Wild Blue
Nixonland
Good War
The Glory of Their Times
Don't know much about history
King of the World