What to Read After Ragtime
Readers who loved Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Ragtime 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 Ragtime
Loving
The Sheltering Sky
The old wives' tale
The heart of the matter
The way of all flesh
The Magnificent Ambersons
Call It Sleep
The death of the heart.
Falconer
Zuleika Dobson
UNDER THE NET
At Swim-Two-Birds
Studs Lonigan
The adventures of Augie March
Dog soldiers.
A House for Mr. Biswas
Assassins
Working
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
The theory of the leisure class
Elmer Gantry
Double Indemnity
The uses of enchantment
Before night falls