What to Read After Astonishing the gods
Readers who loved Astonishing the gods by Ben Okri keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Astonishing the gods 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 Astonishing the gods
Songs of enchantment
The black album
The Opposite House
The Famished Road
Efuru
The adventures of the dish and the spoon
Yoruba Girl Dancing
Measuring Time
The trouble with Nigeria
The palm-wine drinkard ; and, My life in the bush of ghosts
House of Hunger
Butterfly burning
A Collector of Treasures
Pauvre Christ De Bomba
Starbook
Dangerous Love
Second-class citizen
Incidents at the shrine
Stars of the new curfew
Anthills of the savannah
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
In a Free State
Ake
Girls at War and other stories