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
Crash
The Drowned World
Concrete Island
Crystal World (Flamingo Modern Classic)
The Kindness of Women
Under the Frog
Ice-Cream War
A Month in the Country
Fair Stood the Wind for France
The Young lions.
Bomber
The Seed and the Sower
Jacob the Liar
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
Ghost Road