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If you loved Aftermath by Preti Taneja, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Historical Events, Books & Reading, 21st Century, and Modern.

Historical Events Books & Reading 21st Century Modern Essays Subjects & Themes Literary Criticism Literary Collections Personal Memoirs Biography & Autobiography

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Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Aftermath.

The Writer’s Library The Authors You Love on the Books that Changed Their Lives

Nancy Pearl

Themes: Books & Reading • 21st Century • Modern

No Judgment Essays

Lauren Oyler

Themes: 21st Century • Modern • Essays

The Ministry of Truth A Biography of George Orwell’s 1984

Dorian Lynskey

Themes: Books & Reading • Modern • Essays

Earth Keeper Reflections on the American Land

N. Scott Momaday

Themes: 21st Century • Modern • Essays

Time Bites Views and Reviews

Doris Lessing

Themes: Books & Reading • 21st Century • Modern

The Lost Properties of Love An Exhibition of Myself

Sophie Ratcliffe

Themes: Books & Reading • Essays • Subjects & Themes

Girl Sleuth Nancy Drew and the Women who Created Her

Melanie Rehak

Themes: Books & Reading • Essays • Subjects & Themes

The Book-makers A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives

Adam Smyth

Themes: Historical Events • Books & Reading • Modern

Dinner with Joseph Johnson Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age

Daisy Hay

Themes: Historical Events • Books & Reading • Modern

#10

Letter to an Unknown Soldier If You Could Write a Letter to a First World War Soldier, what Would You Say?

Neil Bartlett

Themes: Historical Events • Modern • Essays

#11

Martha Gellhorn: The War Writer in the Field and in the Text

Catherine Mary McLoughlin

Themes: Historical Events • Essays • Subjects & Themes

#12

Reality Hunger A Manifesto

David Shields

Themes: Books & Reading • 21st Century • Modern

#13

Tolkien And The Great War The Threshold Of Middle-earth

John Garth

Themes: Historical Events • Essays • Subjects & Themes

#14

The Hardest Part A Centenary Critical Edition — G a Studdert Kennedy

G. A. Studdert-Kennedy

Themes: Historical Events • Essays • Subjects & Themes

#15

The Merry Heart Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books

Robertson Davies

Themes: Books & Reading • Modern • Essays

#16

Chuck Klosterman X A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century

Chuck Klosterman

Themes: 21st Century • Modern • Essays

#17

Mr. East’s Experiences In Mr. Bellamy’s World Records Of The Years 2001 And 2002 (1891)

Conrad Wilbrandt

Themes: 21st Century • Modern • Essays

#18

Consent A Memoir

Vanessa Springora

Themes: 21st Century • Modern • Essays

#19

Mad World Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead

Paula Byrne

Themes: 21st Century • Modern • Essays

#20

The Greatest Speeches of Donald J. Trump 45TH PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA with an Introduction by Presidential Historian Craig Shirley

Donald J. Trump

Themes: 21st Century • Modern • Essays

#21

How Literature Saved My Life

David Shields

Themes: Books & Reading • Essays • Literary Criticism

#22

Steinbeck in Vietnam Dispatches from the War

John Steinbeck

Themes: Historical Events • Subjects & Themes • Literary Criticism

#23

Books to Die For The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels

John Connolly

Themes: Books & Reading • Essays • Literary Criticism

#24

Novelist as a Vocation

Haruki Murakami

Themes: Books & Reading • Essays • Literary Criticism

If Aftermath by Preti Taneja is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Historical Events, Books & Reading, 21st Century and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Nancy Pearl, Lauren Oyler, Dorian Lynskey, N. Scott Momaday, and others.

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