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What to read after Robert Crews by Thomas Berger: 24 titles sharing themes of AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR), chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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The Wapshot Chronicle and The Wapshot Scandal — John Cheever

The Wapshot Chronicle and The Wapshot Scandal

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Seize the Day — Saul Bellow

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Haircut and Other Stories — Ring Lardner

Haircut and Other Stories

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Last Flower – A Parable in Pictures — James Thurber

The Last Flower – A Parable in Pictures

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

A Modern Mephistopheles: A Novel — Louisa May Alcott

A Modern Mephistopheles: A Novel

Louisa May Alcott

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales — Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales

Edgar Allan Poe

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Shadows on the Rock (Vintage Classics) — Willa Cather

Shadows on the Rock (Vintage Classics) — Willa Cather

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni (Modern Library Classics) — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni (Modern Library Classics)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (theater tie-in) — Ken Kesey

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (theater tie-in)

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Summer (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) — Edith Wharton

Summer (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

San Francisco Blues — Jack Kerouac

San Francisco Blues

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Portable Hawthorne: Revised and Expanded Edition (Viking Portable Library) — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Portable Hawthorne: Revised and Expanded Edition (Viking Portable Library)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

You Can’t Go Home Again — Thomas Wolfe

You Can’t Go Home Again

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Portable Saul Bellow — Saul Bellow

The Portable Saul Bellow

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Portable Steinbeck (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) — John Steinbeck

The Portable Steinbeck (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Stories Of Old New Spain — Thomas A. Janvier

Stories Of Old New Spain

Thomas A. Janvier

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories: Go Tell It on a Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man — James Baldwin

James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories: Go Tell It on a Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Uncle Tom’s Children — Richard Wright

Uncle Tom’s Children

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Great Short Works of Henry James — Henry James

Great Short Works of Henry James

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

A Hazard Of New Fortunes, Part 2 — William Dean Howells

A Hazard Of New Fortunes, Part 2

William Dean Howells

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Octopus: A Story of California — Frank Norris

The Octopus: A Story of California

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

McTeague (1899) — Frank Norris

McTeague (1899)

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Typee (The World’s Classics) — Herman Melville

Typee (The World’s Classics)

Herman Melville

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

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