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 big hunger
Cathedral
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please
Birds of America
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
First love and other sorrows
The stories of John Cheever
The complete polysyllabic spree
Adam, one afternoon
In the garden of the North American martyrs
Rock Springs
A Day of Pleasure
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
Airships
The Coast of Chicago
Jesus' son
Consider the Lobster
Autumn
Revolutionary Road
Grief is the thing with feathers
Short cuts
Glass Menagerie