What to Read After Situation and the Story
Readers who loved Situation and the Story by Vivian Gornick keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Situation and the Story 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 Situation and the Story
The art of memoir
The Art of the Personal Essay
Writing the Memoir
Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
Inventing the truth
To show and to tell
Maps of the imagination
Writing for story
Tell It Slant
Writing life stories
Creative nonfiction
The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers
Narrative Design
Good prose
Fierce Attachments
The boys of my youth
Your life as story
A writer's time
Writing as a way of healing
On writing short stories
Notes from No Man's Land
Speak, Memory
Stop-time
Memories of a Catholic girlhood