What to Read After Sadness
Readers who loved Sadness by Donald Barthelme keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Sadness 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 Sadness
Letters from the Earth
The Rainbow Stories
Smuggler's Bible
The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce
A Collapse of Horses
Deep Politics And The Death of JFK
The Book of the Unknown
Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts
The Devil's Dictionary
Snow White
A Confederate General from Big Sur
So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away
Revenge of the Lawn Stories 1962-1970
Hawkline Monster
The Recognitions
Mr. Palomar
V.
The Broom of the System
Jailbird
Gravity's Rainbow
Underworld
Inherent Vice
Invisible Cities
Slapstick