What to Read After Death and the king's horseman
Readers who loved Death and the king's horseman by Wole Soyinka keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Death and the king's horseman 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 Death and the king's horseman
Nervous Conditions
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Weep not, child
A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's the Tempest
Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
Xala
Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa
Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol
Four major plays of Chikamatsu
Accidental death of an anarchist
Waiting for the Barbarians
A Question of Power
July's people
Ake
Detective story
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
I will marry when I want
Things Fall Apart
A grain of wheat
Anthills of the savannah
The river between
The Joys of Motherhood
Arrow of God
Girls at War and other stories