What to Read After City of Thorns
Readers who loved City of Thorns by Ben Rawlence keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where City of Thorns 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 City of Thorns
One Day I Will Write About This Place
Incarceration Nations
Defender
Hundred-Year Walk
Famine Crimes
When the Moon Is Low
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea
Shake Hands with the Devil
The underground girls of Kabul
Dead aid
The Looting Machine
Evicted
Emergency Sex
Blowing My Cover
Spark
One Child
Factory Girls
Mukiwa
Enrique's Journey Spa
The Fate of Africa
Black Flags
Monique and the Mango Rains
Radiance of Tomorrow
Pond