What to Read After The Sound and the Fury
Readers who loved The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Sound and the Fury 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 Sound and the Fury
The Good Soldier
Studs Lonigan
Loving
The old wives' tale
Sodom and Gomorrah
The sot-weed factor.
The death of the heart.
Under the Volcano
Call It Sleep
The Wapshot Chronicle
Nostromo
The Moviegoer
Native Son
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Absalom, Absalom!
Light in August
As I Lay Dying
The Crying of Lot 49
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
White Noise
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
The Sun Also Rises
Collected Stories of William Faulkner
Pale Fire