What to Read After Anne Sexton
Readers who loved Anne Sexton by Diane Wood Middlebrook keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Anne Sexton 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 Anne Sexton
The complete poems
Transformations
Anne Sexton
Letters Home
Savage beauty
Searching for Mercy Street
Dorothy Parker
Zelda
Diane Arbus
Lover of Unreason
All My Pretty Ones
Capote
The awful rowing toward God
Sylvia Plath, method and madness
Private Demons
Capote
Birthday letters
The dead and the living
The Colossus and Other Poems
The complete poems, 1927-1979
Virginia Woolf
Satan says
Love Poems
My wars are laid away in books