What to Read After Damballah
Readers who loved Damballah by John Edgar Wideman keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Damballah 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 Damballah
Breaking ice
Oxherding tale
Miss Muriel and other stories
Flying home and other stories
Philadelphia fire
Brothers and keepers
Pricksongs & descants
Kehinde
Growing Up X
The salt eaters
The fire next time
The Turner house
Another Country
Salvage the Bones
Go Tell It on the Mountain
The twelve tribes of Hattie
Invisible Man
This Is How You Lose Her
The English Patient
Parable of the Sower
Giovanni's Room
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Wide Sargasso Sea
Interpreter of Maladies