If you liked His First Best Country by Jim Wayne Miller, start with Newfound (1989), Dialogue with a dead man (1974), and Nostalgia for 70 (1986). These recommendations are drawn from the same author, shared genres, and reader overlap on BookOrb.

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Recommended next reads

  1. 1 Newfound 1989 · 213 pages · Jim Wayne Miller · Same author
  2. 2 Dialogue with a dead man 1974 · 80 pages · Jim Wayne Miller · Same author
  3. 3 Nostalgia for 70 1986 · Jim Wayne Miller · Same author
  4. 4 Vein of words 1984 · 61 pages · Jim Wayne Miller · Same author
  5. 5 Savory memories 1998 · 166 pages · Ronni Lundy, Jim Wayne Miller · Same author
  6. 6 Sideswipes 1986 · 19 pages · Jim Wayne Miller · Same author
  7. 7 Poetic strategy and metaphorical structure 1977 · 300 pages · Jim Wayne Miller · Same author
  8. 8 The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition 1985 · 846 pages · Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Kerry M. Wood, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, Cotton Mather, Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Paine, John Greenleaf Whittier, Francis Wright, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Frederick Douglass, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, Sidney Lanier, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Emily Dickinson, Satanta, Chief Joseph, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Sara Teasdale, John Crowe Ransom, Jean Toomer, Robinson Jeffers, Louise Bogan, Lillian Hellman, Patrick F. McManus, William Least Heat Moon, Richard Rodriguez, Lorraine Hansberry, Mona Van Duyn, David Wagoner, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hayden, Karl Jay Shapiro, Richard Eberhart, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Galway Kinnell, Randall Jarrell, Gwendolyn Brooks, John N. Morris, Amiri Baraka, Vern Rutsala, Lawson Fusao Inada, Jim Wayne Miller, Leslie Silko, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Isaac Asimov, Flannery O'Connor, Eugenia Collier, Annie Dillard, Margaret Wasson, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Robert Penn Warren, William Saroyan, Conrad Aiken, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Herman Melville, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Ogden Nash, W. L. White, E. B. White, George Santayana, Frank C. Laubach, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Philip Hamburger, Thornton Wilder, Theresa Helburn, Brad Schulberg · Same author
  9. 9 Round and round with Kahlil Gibran 1990 · 6 pages · Jim Wayne Miller · Same author
  10. 10 Reading, writing, region 1984 · 46 pages · Jim Wayne Miller · Same author
  11. 11 Brier, His Book 1988 · 68 pages · Jim Wayne Miller · Same author
  12. 12 The Brier poems 1997 · 159 pages · Jim Wayne Miller · Same author

Frequently asked questions

What should I read after His First Best Country?

BookOrb recommends Newfound (1989), Dialogue with a dead man (1974), Nostalgia for 70 (1986), Vein of words (1984), and Savory memories (1998).

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Who wrote His First Best Country?

His First Best Country is by Jim Wayne Miller.