What to Read After Samurai
Readers who loved Samurai by Shūsaku Endō keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Samurai 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 Samurai
Taiko
waiting years
Cloud of Sparrows
Black rain
Autumn Bridge
Botchan
Grass for His Pillow (Tales of the Otori, Book 2)
Musashi
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)
WAY OF THE SAMURAI (MUSASHI 1) (Musashi Book 1)
Hasen
Fires on the Plain (Tuttle Classics)
Four major plays of Chikamatsu
Silence
A life of Jesus
Wonderful Fool
The sea and poison
The dancing girl of Izu and other stories
Naomi
Rashomon and other stories
House of the Sleeping Beauties
Scandal
Confessions of a mask
Heike Story