What to Read After The Magic Barrel
Readers who loved The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Magic Barrel 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 Magic Barrel
Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories
Gimpel the Fool
Mr Sammler's planet
Collected Stories of William Faulkner
World's Fair
Frolic of His Own
The Centaur
Them.
Gogol's Wife and Other Stories
Augustus
Tree of Smoke
Sabbath's Theater
Fabulous small Jews
Ship Fever
The Grass Harp
The Eighth Day
Seize the Day
Paco's Story
Chimera
Ten North Frederick.
I, Etcetera
In America
The Man with the Golden Arm
Spartina