What to Read After Turkey
Readers who loved Turkey by Erik Jan Zürcher keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Turkey 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 Turkey
Atatürk
Ataturk
The golden cage
The Balkans
Against elections
Borderland
Imagined communities
Ottoman Centuries
The Ottoman Empire
What is history?
Balthasar's odyssey
White Castle
The Great Transformation
Kafamda bir tuhaflik
History of the Arab Peoples
A Peace to End All Peace
Alamut
Notes From Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections From the House of the Dead
Masumiyet müzesi
La père Goriot
Istanbul
Snow
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Orientalism