What to Read After Occidentalism
Readers who loved Occidentalism by Ian Buruma keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Occidentalism 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 Occidentalism
The West and the Rest
Islamic Imperialism
Terror and Liberalism
Lawless World
What went wrong?
Republic of Fear
Amsterdam
The siege of Mecca
The roads to modernity
A mosque in Munich
Future shock
Against elections
Chain of title
Critical Mass
Consciousness explained
Orientalism
The elementary particles
Mythologies
Homage to Catalonia
The Looming Tower
Feminism Is for Everybody
Collapse
The Castle of Otranto
Guns, germs, and steel