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What should I read post John Williams' Stoner ?

I just finished Stoner, loved it, and I can't decide whether I should continue with another of his novels, Augustus, or another author. I also liked the university setting of Stoner, and wouldn't mind reading another story about academia. Suggestions? Should I stop worrying and just read Augustus? Willa Cather's The Professor's House?

pithykitty asked in Book Recommendations about 1 year ago | Report

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    mishalibrarian

    I haven't read Stoner yet, but now I will have to. It sounds like it's probably a good idea to read more by Williams or to go for the Cather as well, but if you need more...

    For more academic settings and/or professors, try A New Life by Bernard Malamud (set in a fictional Oregon town), Straight Man by Richard Russo (which everyone thinks is very funny--and it is--but I think is truly tragic as well) and The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies (first book in the Cornish trilogy).

    For a elegaic school boy coming-of-age, try William Maxwell's The Folded Leaf.

    For books with a similarly melancholy tone, try two other NYRB reprints, The Go-between by L. P. Hartley or Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter, which is sad and brutal of the school-of-hard-knocks variety.

    mishalibrarian answered in Book Recommendations about 1 year ago | Report
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