What to Read After Empire of the Sun
Readers who loved Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Empire of the Sun 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 Empire of the Sun
The Drowned World
Cocaine Nights
Concrete island
Crystal World (Flamingo Modern Classic)
The kindness of women
Jacob the Liar
Fair Stood the Wind for France
Under the Frog
A month in the country
The Young lions.
Ice-Cream War
Bomber
The seed and the sower
The folding star
The End of the Affair (Twentieth Century Classics)
Super-Cannes
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Birdsong
Cloud Atlas
A town like Alice
The Wasp Factory
The drought
Oscar and Lucinda
Vermilion Sands