If you liked The sorrows of fat city by George P. Garrett, start with Entered from the Sun (1990), Fifty Best American Short Stories (1965), and That's what I like (about the South), and other new southern stories for the nineties (1993). These recommendations are drawn from the same author, shared genres, and reader overlap on BookOrb.

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  1. 1 Entered from the Sun 1990 · 349 pages · George P. Garrett · Same author
  2. 2 Fifty Best American Short Stories 1965 · 814 pages · Ernest Hemingway, Tillie Olsen, William March, William Saroyan, Tess Slesinger, Kay Boyle, John Cheever, Hortense Calisher, Augusta Wallace Lyons, Shirley Jackson, Lawrence Sargent Hall, George P. Garrett, H. W. Blattner, M. (Ed.) Foley · Same author
  3. 3 That's what I like (about the South), and other new southern stories for the nineties 1993 · 409 pages · George P. Garrett, Paul Ruffin · Same author
  4. 4 Southern excursions 2003 · 305 pages · George P. Garrett · Same author
  5. 5 Luck's shining child 1981 · 62 pages · George P. Garrett · Same author
  6. 6 The Situation of the Story 1993 · 791 pages · Flannery O'Connor, Tillie Olsen, Ann Beattie, Conrad Aiken, Elizabeth Spencer, Alice Munro, Lee K. Abbott, Ernest Hemingway, Ellen Wilbur, Louise Erdrich, Toni Cade Bambara, Zora Neale Hurston, Doris Lessing, Raymond Carver, Gloria Naylor, Shirley Jackson, REGINALD McKNlGHT, Maria Cruz Viramontes de Marin, John Edgar Wideman, George P. Garrett, Charles Johnson, Estela Portillo Trambley, Edgar Allan Poe, Allen Barnett, Franz Kafka, Herman Melville, John Cheever · Same author
  7. 7 Bad man blues 1998 · 198 pages · George P. Garrett · Same author
  8. 8 For a bitter season 1967 · 114 pages · George P. Garrett · Same author
  9. 9 Days of our lives lie in fragments 1998 · 222 pages · George P. Garrett · Same author
  10. 10 Film scripts two 1990 · George P. Garrett, Jane R. Gelfman · Same author
  11. 11 Life as we know it, and other original fiction and poetry 1974 · 252 pages · George P. Garrett · Same author
  12. 12 Sir Slob and the Princess 1962 · 40 pages · George P. Garrett · Same author

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What should I read after The sorrows of fat city?

BookOrb recommends Entered from the Sun (1990), Fifty Best American Short Stories (1965), That's what I like (about the South), and other new southern stories for the nineties (1993), Southern excursions (2003), and Luck's shining child (1981).

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Who wrote The sorrows of fat city?

The sorrows of fat city is by George P. Garrett.