Read-alikes and related books

Books like What Went Wrong?

24 titles for readers of What Went Wrong? by Bill Buford, selected for shared themes: Literary Collections.

Literary Collections

Top related books to What Went Wrong?

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of What Went Wrong?.

Book of Irish Quotations

Seán McMahon

Themes: Literary Collections

A Spiel Amang Us Glasgow People Writing : the Scotia Bar Writers’ Prize

Brendan McLaughlin

Themes: Literary Collections

Modern Confessional Writing New Critical Essays

Jo Gill

Themes: Literary Collections

A George Herbert Companion (Routledge Revivals)

Robert H. Ray

Themes: Literary Collections

Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Italo Calvino

Themes: Literary Collections

Collected Poems; Volume 2

Alfred Noyes

Themes: Literary Collections

The Prose Works Of Jonathan Swift Vol. X

Jonathan Swift

Themes: Literary Collections

Robin Hood A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, Now Extant Relative to That Celebrated English Outlaw; to Which Are Prefixed Historical Anecdotes of His Life

Joseph Ritson

Themes: Literary Collections

Bicycles Love Poems

Nikki Giovanni

Themes: Literary Collections

#10

How We Do it Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill

Jericho Brown

Themes: Literary Collections

#11

Soll Und Haben (German Edition) — Gustav Freytag

GUSTAV. FREYTAG

Themes: Literary Collections

#12

Oscar Wilde The Complete Works Illustrated

Oscar Wilde

Themes: Literary Collections

#13

Divine Providence When All Else Fails – Be Lucky

IAN C. DAWKINS. MOORE

Themes: Literary Collections

#14

A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

Virginia Woolf

Themes: Literary Collections

#15

Selected Poems and Prose — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe. Shelley

Themes: Literary Collections

#16

The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems

William Henry Drummond

Themes: Literary Collections

#17

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume B The Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century

Stephen Greenblatt

Themes: Literary Collections

#18

Three Gothic Novels The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; Frankenstein

Horace Walpole

Themes: Literary Collections

#19

Murder in the Cathedral

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Themes: Literary Collections

#20

The Greek Spirit and the Mysticism of Henry More

George A. Panichas

Themes: Literary Collections

#21

The Confessions

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Themes: Literary Collections

#22

Romance And Other Studies, No. 1 Evangile Aux Femmes An Old French Satire On Women (1895)

George Charles Keidel

Themes: Literary Collections

#23

La Folie Baudelaire

Roberto Calasso

Themes: Literary Collections

#24

The Blue-eyed Manchu

Achmed Abdullah

Themes: Literary Collections

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with What Went Wrong? by Bill Buford. Connected by Literary Collections. Authors featured include Seán McMahon, Brendan McLaughlin, Jo Gill, Robert H. Ray, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.