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)
Love in a Fallen City
Six Records of a Floating Life
Outlaws of the Marsh
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
Beijing Coma
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, Translated by Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan
Beijing Coma
Wolf Totem
Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
The Book and the Sword
Four major plays of Chikamatsu
Lin Yutang
To Live
Mencius (Penguin Classics)
Lust, Caution
Red Sorghum
Brothers
Masks
Garlic Ballads
The search for modern China
Romance of the Three Kingdoms