What to Read After The Mahabharata
Readers who loved The Mahabharata by Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Mahabharata 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 The Mahabharata
The Upanishads (Penguin Classics)
Mahabharata
The Rig Veda
The Hindus
The Ramayana
India
Story-wallah!
An introduction to Hinduism
Gods, demons and others
Gem in the lotus
Yajnaseni
The Upaninṣads
Upanisads
The vendor of sweets
Under the banyan tree and other stories
Malgudi days
Talkative man
Kautilya's Arthashastra
James Joyce's Ulysses
Fasting, feasting
The Home and the World (Dodo Press)
Cracking India
The essential Gandhi
In Custody