If you liked The penny that beauty spent by Thornton Wilder, start with Fanny Otcott (2004), The bridge of San Luis Rey (1980), and The Ides of March (Signed and Numbered) (1948). These recommendations are drawn from the same author, shared genres, and reader overlap on BookOrb.

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Recommended next reads

  1. 1 Fanny Otcott 2004 · Thornton Wilder · Same author
  2. 2 The bridge of San Luis Rey 1980 · 235 pages · Thornton Wilder · Same author
  3. 3 The Ides of March (Signed and Numbered) 1948 · 262 pages · Thornton Wilder · Same author
  4. 4 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
  5. 5 A ringing of doorbells 2004 · Thornton Wilder · Same author
  6. 6 American Characteristics 2000 · 320 pages · Thornton Wilder · Same author
  7. 7 Alcestiad: Or, a Life in the Sun 1979 · Thornton Wilder · Same author
  8. 8 The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1928) 1928 · Thornton Wilder · Same author
  9. 9 Die Frau aus Andros 1952 · 94 pages · Thornton Wilder · Same author
  10. 10 The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Uniform Edition. 1928 · Thornton Wilder · Same author
  11. 11 Woman of Andros 1954 · Thornton Wilder · Same author

Frequently asked questions

What should I read after The penny that beauty spent?

BookOrb recommends Fanny Otcott (2004), The bridge of San Luis Rey (1980), The Ides of March (Signed and Numbered) (1948), The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition (1985), and A ringing of doorbells (2004).

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Who wrote The penny that beauty spent?

The penny that beauty spent is by Thornton Wilder.