What to Read After Modern Japanese Literature
Readers who loved Modern Japanese Literature by Donald Keene keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Modern Japanese Literature 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 Modern Japanese Literature
Selected letters, 1917-1961
The dancing girl of Izu and other stories
All over Creation
The life of an amorous man
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Self Portraits
The World of Jeeves
Seven Japanese tales
Super Sushi Ramen Express
The broken commandment
waiting years
Acts of worship
Wild Palms
Great detectives
Hardboiled and Hard Luck
Unbeaten tracks in Japan
The Short Reign of Pippin IV
The stones cry out
Rashomon and other stories
The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa
Bedtime eyes
Inter Ice Age 4
The world of the shining prince
Wonderful Fool