What to Read After American Childhood
Readers who loved American Childhood by Annie Dillard keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where American Childhood 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 American Childhood
Stop-time
Memories of a Catholic girlhood
The Blue Jay's Dance
Pentimento
Growing up
The Solace of Open Spaces
Summer of the Great Grandmother
Sacred Journey
Journal of a Solitude
Fierce Attachments
The Writing Life
As I Lay Dying
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
A Farewell to Arms
The Nightingale
The Tipping Point
The Devil in the White City
East of Eden
In Cold Blood
The Catcher in the Rye
Into the Wild
The Glass Castle
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Hobbit