What to Read After Specimen Days
Readers who loved Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Specimen Days 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 Specimen Days
Flesh and blood
A home at the end of the world
Beauty of Men
By nightfall
Stargate Atlantis
Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander
The Spell
The snow queen
A boy's own story
Dancer from the Dance
The Swimming-Pool Library
The Lost Language of Cranes
Someday this pain will be useful to you
What I loved
The man who fell in love with the moon
At swim, two boys
Becoming a man
Jack Holmes and his friend
The Beautiful Room Is Empty
The hours
The Front Runner
The farewell symphony
City of night
Days of Anna Madrigal