What to Read After River town
Readers who loved River town by Peter Hessler keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where River town 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 River town
Life and death in Shanghai
China Road
Riding the iron rooster
Iron and Silk
Red China blues
The search for modern China
The River at the Center of the World, Revised
Chinese Lessons
Red Dust
Oracle Bones
Country driving
The last days of old Beijing
Age of ambition
Lost on planet China
Dreaming in Chinese
On China
The Good Women of China
Dark star safari
The Great Railway Bazaar
Red Azalea
PLACES IN BETWEEN
Mao
Shadow of the Silk Road
Finding George Orwell in Burma