If you liked Damballah by John Edgar Wideman, start with The Best American Short Stories 1996 (1996), The island, Martinique (2003), and Writing to Save a Life (2018). These recommendations are drawn from the same author, shared genres, and reader overlap on BookOrb.

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Recommended next reads

  1. 1 The Best American Short Stories 1996 1996 · 384 pages · John Edgar Wideman · Same author
  2. 2 The island, Martinique 2003 · 167 pages · John Edgar Wideman · Same author
  3. 3 Writing to Save a Life 2018 · 208 pages · John Edgar Wideman · Same author
  4. 4 The cattle killing 1996 · 212 pages · John Edgar Wideman · Same author
  5. 5 A glance away 1967 · 186 pages · John Edgar Wideman · 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 All Stories Are True/Cassettes 1993 · John Edgar Wideman · Same author
  8. 8 American histories 2018 · 240 pages · John Edgar Wideman · Same author
  9. 9 Fatheralong 1994 · 224 pages · John Edgar Wideman · Same author
  10. 10 The homewood books 1992 · 520 pages · John Edgar Wideman · Same author
  11. 11 Look for Me and Ill Be Gone 2021 · 1 pages · John Edgar Wideman · Same author
  12. 12 Le rocking-chair qui bat la mesure 2008 · 288 pages · John Edgar Wideman, Jean-Pierre Richard (1949 - ) · Same author

Frequently asked questions

What should I read after Damballah?

BookOrb recommends The Best American Short Stories 1996 (1996), The island, Martinique (2003), Writing to Save a Life (2018), The cattle killing (1996), and A glance away (1967).

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Who wrote Damballah?

Damballah is by John Edgar Wideman.