What to Read After Dhammapada
Readers who loved Dhammapada by Thomas Cleary keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Dhammapada 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 Dhammapada
A Flash of lightning in the dark of night
In the Buddha's words
The heart of the Buddha's teaching
Not Always So
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
The way of Chuang Tzu
The Way of the Bodhisattva
Zen Buddhism
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha
Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
The Heart Sutra
The Three pillars of Zen
The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-Neng
What the Buddha taught
Tao te Ching
Letters to a Young Poet
Metamorphoses
King Lear
The Taming of the Shrew
Dubliners
Ulysses
Old Man and the Sea
Into Thin Air
Lolita