What to Read After Telling Stories
Readers who loved Telling Stories by Joyce Carol Oates keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Telling Stories 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 Telling Stories
On writing short stories
Method and madness
The Tent
Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular
Naming the world
Fiction Writer's Workshop
Making shapely fiction
Creating short fiction
The 3 a.m. epiphany
Reading Like a Writer
Last Night in Montreal
How fiction works
Save the cat!
The Moviegoer
slouching towards bethlehem
Kindred
A Moveable Feast
On Writing
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Awakening
The Bluest Eye
House of Leaves
A Farewell to Arms