What to Read After China
Readers who loved China by John Keay keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where China 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 China
The generalissimo
Penguin History of Modern China
The Great Divergence
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
Raj
Terry Jones' Barbarians
Imperial Spain
Imperial China 900-1800
From the Ruins of Empire
Empress Dowager Cixi
China
Europe
India
Bismarck
Stalin
City of fortune
Ivan's war
Gulag
The Fate of Africa
Postwar
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty
The revenge of geography
Young Stalin
Ghost Wars