What to Read After One Man’s Bible
Readers who loved One Man’s Bible by Gao Xingjian keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where One Man’s Bible 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 One Man’s Bible
Garlic Ballads
Red Sorghum
Désert
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
To live
Big Breasts & Wide Hips
The Flanders road
The Grass is Singing
The Bridegroom
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, Translated by Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan
The fat years
I am China
Half a life
Only Yesterday
The Vagrants
Benim Adım Kırmızı
Frog
Womenas lovers
The King of the Dark Chamber
Beijing coma
Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress
The land of green plums
Snow
The aleph (including the prose fictions from The Maker)