What to Read After Kappa
Readers who loved Kappa by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Kappa 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 Kappa
Botchan
The Face of Another
Naomi
The Setting Sun
Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Translations from the Asian Classics)
Masks
The Hunting Gun
Schoolgirl
Night of the Milky Way railway
Rashomon and Other Stories
Crackling Mountain and other stories
Inter Ice Age 4
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)
Grotesque
1Q84 [3/3]
The Strange Library
The Bridegroom Was a Dog
The ark Sakura
Fires on the Plain (Tuttle Classics)
Wild Geese
Snakes and Earrings
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Hardboiled and Hard Luck
Seven Japanese tales