What to Read After Burning Down the House
Readers who loved Burning Down the House by Charles Baxter keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Burning Down the House 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 Burning Down the House
The art of fiction
Aspects of the Novel
Writing Fiction
Mystery and manners: occasional prose
Ron Carlson Writes a Story
Narrative Design
The Faith of a Writer
The Art of Subtext
On Writers and Writing
The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers
On becoming a novelist
Naming the world
The habit of being - Letters of Flannery O'Connor
Like shaking hands with God
The Poet's Companion
Negotiating with the dead
Birds of America
Rock Springs
Living by Fiction
The Art of the Personal Essay
On writing short stories
The Writer's chapbook
How fiction works
Reading Like a Writer