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Books like The General

What to read after The General by Bill Buford: 24 titles sharing themes of Literary Collections, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

Literary Collections

Top related books to The General

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

Saint Joan

George Bernard Shaw

Themes: Literary Collections

The School for Scandal and Other Plays

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Themes: Literary Collections

Reflections on the Pandemic COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed

Teresa Politano

Themes: Literary Collections

Bradbury Speaks Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars

Ray Bradbury

Themes: Literary Collections

The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel

Julia Sun-Joo Lee

Themes: Literary Collections

The One You Really Want

Jill Mansell

Themes: Literary Collections

God Is an Englishman

R. F. Delderfield

Themes: Literary Collections

The Shakespearean Ethic

John Vyvyan

Themes: Literary Collections

The Complete English Poems

John Donne

Themes: Literary Collections

#10

Miss Read’s Christmas Book

Miss Read

Themes: Literary Collections

#11

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Lewis Carroll

Themes: Literary Collections

#12

Pygmalion.

George Bernard Shaw

Themes: Literary Collections

#13

Shakespeare’s Pronunciation [I] A Shakespeare Phonology, With a Rime-index to the Poems as a Pronouncing Vocabulary — Wilhelm Viëtor

Wilhelm Vietor

Themes: Literary Collections

#14

Guilty But Insane Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction

Samantha Walton

Themes: Literary Collections

#15

Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen

Sheila Johnson Kindred

Themes: Literary Collections

#16

Home

Bill Buford

Themes: Literary Collections

#17

Shakespeare’s Tragedy of King Richard the Third

William James Rolfe

Themes: Literary Collections

#18

The Snows of Yesteryear Portraits for an Autobiography

Gregor Rezzori

Themes: Literary Collections

#19

Granta 22

Bill Buford

Themes: Literary Collections

#20

To be a Man Stories

Nicole Krauss

Themes: Literary Collections

#21

The Fatal Effects of Gambling Exemplified in the Murder of Wm. Weare, and the Trial and Fate of John Thurtell, the Murderer, and His Accomplices With Biographical Sketches of the Parties Concerned … to Which Is Added, the Gambler’s Scourge; a Complete

John Thurtell

Themes: Literary Collections

#22

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

Themes: Literary Collections

#23

All the Sonnets of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Themes: Literary Collections

#24

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray

Themes: Literary Collections

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with The General by Bill Buford. Connected by Literary Collections. Authors featured include George Bernard Shaw, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Teresa Politano, Ray Bradbury, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.