Books like Daisy Jones & The Six
What should you read after Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel? It depends on what you loved most about it.
- Taylor Jenkins Reid
- 2019
- 368 pages
- Historical fiction
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Best books to read after Daisy Jones & The Six
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Best overall matchThe Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Reid's other big one, running the same trick: a famous woman telling her life to an interviewer, decade by decade, with a secret saved for the last chapter.
- Impossible to put down
- The oral history format
- A creative partnership
- Film, not music
- The Final Revival of Opal & NevBest for the oral history format
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Dawnie Walton
The same oral-history conceit with considerably more teeth: a Black rock singer and her white bandmate reassembled from interviews, the journalist's own stake included.
- The oral history format
- Everyone remembers it differently
- A creative partnership
- Sharper and more political
Best for the seventies rock sceneUtopia Avenue
David Mitchell
A late-sixties London band gets its own novel, and Mitchell writes the songs, the gigs and the record contracts with a proper fan's attention to detail.
- Seventies rock scene
- A band falling apart
- A creative partnership
- Long — over 550 pages
Best for a creative partnershipTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
Two collaborators whose best work only happens together and who cannot manage to be decent to each other — the Billy-and-Daisy problem, stretched over thirty years.
- A creative partnership
- A band falling apart
- Impossible to put down
- Video games, not music
Great matchJust Kids
Patti Smith
The real version: Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe making each other into artists in downtown New York, told with a tenderness Reid's characters never manage.
- A creative partnership
- Seventies rock scene
- Addiction and self-destruction
- Memoir, not a novel
Worth a look — with a warningA Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
Punk-era music people tracked forwards and backwards across forty years, a different form each chapter — same industry, but Egan has no interest in comforting you.
- Everyone remembers it differently
- Addiction and self-destruction
- A band falling apart
- Thirteen chapters, thirteen styles
What should you read after Daisy Jones & The Six?
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid works on several levels at once, and which book you should read next depends on which of those levels got you. For most readers the closest match is The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid — reid's other big one, running the same trick: a famous woman telling her life to an interviewer, decade by decade, with a secret saved for the last chapter.
If what stayed with you was the oral history format, read The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton instead: the same oral-history conceit with considerably more teeth: a Black rock singer and her white bandmate reassembled from interviews, the journalist's own stake included. Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell is the other strong option — a late-sixties London band gets its own novel, and Mitchell writes the songs, the gigs and the record contracts with a proper fan's attention to detail.
Common questions
- What should you read after Daisy Jones & The Six?
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton, Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell are the closest matches. Which fits best depends on what you loved about Daisy Jones & The Six: the oral history format, seventies rock scene, a creative partnership, addiction and self-destruction.
- What is the best book like Daisy Jones & The Six?
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid is the strongest overall match. Reid's other big one, running the same trick: a famous woman telling her life to an interviewer, decade by decade, with a secret saved for the last chapter.
- What are books similar to Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid?
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton, Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, Just Kids by Patti Smith, A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. Each one matches a different part of Daisy Jones & The Six rather than just its genre.
- Is The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo worth reading after Daisy Jones & The Six?
- Yes — readers who loved Daisy Jones & The Six tend to land well with it: the same interview structure; ambition and what it costs; you will read it in two days. One thing to know going in: film, not music.
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