What to Read After Red Dust
Readers who loved Red Dust by Ma Jian keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Red Dust 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 Red Dust
River Town
The Good Women of China
Country Driving
China Road
Oracle Bones
God's Chinese Son
Dreaming in Chinese
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories
The last days of old Beijing
The River at the Center of the World, Revised
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, Translated by Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan
Chinese Lessons
River of Smoke
Leaving Mother Lake
The Concubine's Children
Riding the Iron Rooster
A Fortune-Teller Told Me
Red Azalea
Life and death in Shanghai
Beijing Coma
China in Ten Words
"Socialism Is Great!"
The Corpse Walker
To Live