What to Read After The Pillow Book
Readers who loved The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Pillow Book 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 The Pillow Book
Rashomon and Other Stories
The Waiting Years
The Gossamer Years =
Hōjōki
The diary of Lady Murasaki
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)
Wild Geese
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
Record of a Night Too Brief
Bad Feminist
Housekeeper and the Professor
Kokoro
Hotel Iris
Hardboiled and Hard Luck
The Principles of Uncertainty
Silence
Out
Real World
Audition
Amrita
Confessions of a Mask
Botchan
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
Please Look After Mom