What to Read After Mao
Readers who loved Mao by Jung Chang keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Mao is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Mao
Stalin
Che
The man who loved China
Oracle Bones
Mao's great famine
The private life of Chairman Mao
Hungry ghosts
Trotsky
Pol Pot
Wild Swans
The Good Women of China
Empress Dowager Cixi
River town
Country driving
1421
To End All Wars
On China
Peter the Great
The coming of the Third Reich
Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China
The fatal shore
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gulag
The Last Empress