What to Read After The Book of Tea
Readers who loved The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Book of Tea 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 Book of Tea
The Story of Tea
Wabi Sabi
Zen Buddhism and its influence on Japanese culture
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
The world of the shining prince
Fires on the Plain (Tuttle Classics)
A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
Kokoro
Wabi-sabi for artists, designers, poets & philosophers
Bushidō
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Hagakure
Botchan
The Way of Zen
砂の女
Confessions of a mask
An Artist of the Floating World
Zen mind, beginner's mind
Zen in the Art of Archery
Rashomon and other stories
The dancing girl of Izu and other stories
Asleep
The Architecture of Happiness
Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees