What to Read After The Golden Days
Readers who loved The Golden Days by Tsʻao, Hsüeh-chʻin. keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Golden Days 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 Golden Days
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Penguin Classics)
Six records of a floating life
Journey to the West, Volume 1 (Journey to the West)
The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
Wolf Totem
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, Translated by Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan
Beijing coma
Beijing Coma
Four major plays of Chikamatsu
Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
Lin Yutang
To live
Lust, Caution
Red Sorghum
Masks
The search for modern China
Garlic Ballads
Romance of the three kingdoms
Rashomon and other stories
The Vagrants
God's Chinese Son
The Arabian Nights
Under the glacier