What to Read After Koto
Readers who loved Koto by Yasunari Kawabata keep reaching for these 21 books. This list is built from where Koto 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 Koto
Wild Geese
The diary of Lady Murasaki
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)
waiting years
Fires on the Plain (Tuttle Classics)
The Hunting Gun
Black rain
Kappa
Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Translations from the Asian Classics)
After the banquet
Prague Cemetery
Seta
Novecento
Sostiene Pereira
The Name of the Rose
Solaris
Olive Kitteridge
Madame Bovary
Norwegian Wood
Eragon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time