What to Read After Beginners
Readers who loved Beginners by Raymond Carver keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Beginners 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 Beginners
The Girl with the Curious Hair
The Brooklyn follies
The Point
The Big Hunger
Cathedral
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please
Adam, One Afternoon
In the garden of the North American martyrs
Birds of America
Jesus' son
Pugilist at Rest
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
First Love and Other Sorrows
Taking Care
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
The stories of John Cheever
Rock Springs
The Coast of Chicago
A Day of Pleasure
Airships
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
The stories of Breece D'J Pancake
Consider the Lobster
Autumn