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
Oracle Bones
China Road
God's Chinese Son
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories
The River at the Center of the World, Revised
The last days of old Beijing
Dreaming in Chinese
Red Azalea
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, Translated by Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan
Life and death in Shanghai
Riding the iron rooster
A Fortune-Teller Told Me
River of smoke
Chinese Lessons
Leaving Mother Lake
Beijing coma
Wild Swans
China in ten words
Zhongguo hao nü ren
"Socialism is great!"
The Corpse Walker