What to Read After Upanisads
Readers who loved Upanisads by Patrick Olivelle keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Upanisads 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 Upanisads
Mencius (Penguin Classics)
Hatha Yoga Pradipika
The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-Neng
The Way of the Bodhisattva
The yoga sutras of Patanjali
How to Know God
The Mahabharata
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Ramayana
Zen Buddhism
The Heart Sutra
A History of God
Infinite Jest
The Remains of the Day
Paradise Lost
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Things Fall Apart
Deception Point
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Life of Pi
Siddhartha
The Grapes of Wrath
Metamorphosis