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What to read after Granta 5 by Bill Buford: 24 titles sharing themes of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European, and Literary Collections, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Each title here shares meaningful common ground with Granta 5 — in theme, mood, or literary style.

Granta 3 — Bill Buford

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De Profundis and Other Writings — Oscar Wilde

De Profundis and Other Writings

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Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets – Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey — Thomas de Quincey

Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets – Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey

Thomas De Quincey

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Selected Poems — Thomas Stearns Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot

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Shelley on Love Selected Writings — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley on Love Selected Writings — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe. Shelley

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A History of England in 25 Poems — Catherine Clarke

A History of England in 25 Poems

Catherine Clarke

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Relations An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices — Ayesha Harruna Attah

Relations An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices

Ayesha Harruna Attah

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The Edgier Waters — Andrew Stevens

The Edgier Waters

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Oscar Wilde – The Major Works — Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde – The Major Works

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Night in the Front Line And Other Second World War Stories — Ann-Marie Einhaus

Night in the Front Line And Other Second World War Stories

Ann-Marie Einhaus

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The Boatman and Other Stories — Billy O’Callaghan

The Boatman and Other Stories — Billy O’Callaghan

Billy O'Callaghan

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The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories — Margaret Reynolds

The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories

Margaret Reynolds

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Collections

A Literary Christmas — The British Library

A Literary Christmas

The British Library

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Trying to Save Piggy Sneed — John Irving

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Collections

The Moment, and Other Essays — Virginia Woolf

The Moment, and Other Essays

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The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor With Selected Poetry and Prose by Mary E. Coleridge — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor With Selected Poetry and Prose by Mary E. Coleridge

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

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John Lydgate’s Dance of Death and Related Works — Megan Leigh Cook

John Lydgate’s Dance of Death and Related Works

Megan Leigh Cook

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Home at Grasmere Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth — Dorothy Wordsworth

Home at Grasmere Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth

Dorothy Wordsworth

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The Art of the Glimpse 100 Irish Short Stories — Sinéad Gleeson

The Art of the Glimpse 100 Irish Short Stories

Sinéad Gleeson

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The Oxford Book of the Sea — Jonathan Raban

The Oxford Book of the Sea

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The Mabinogion — []

The Mabinogion — []

Freida McFadden

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Being Various New Irish Short Stories — Lucy Caldwell

Being Various New Irish Short Stories

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Surge New Writing from Ireland — Frank McGuinness

Surge New Writing from Ireland

Frank McGuinness

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Collections

Brown River, White Ocean An Anthology of Twentieth-century Philippine Literature in English — Luis Francia

Brown River, White Ocean An Anthology of Twentieth-century Philippine Literature in English

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Collections

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Granta 5 by Bill Buford. Connected by English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European, Literary Collections. Authors featured include Bill Buford, Oscar Wilde, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Stearns Eliot, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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