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
The Way of the Bodhisattva
The Heart Sutra
A Flash of lightning in the dark of night
The Three pillars of Zen
Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
The heart of the Buddha's teaching
The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-Neng
The way of Chuang Tzu
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha
Not Always So
Zen Buddhism
What the Buddha taught
Tao te Ching
Letters to a Young Poet
Metamorphoses
King Lear
The Taming of the Shrew
Dubliners
Ulysses
Into Thin Air
Lolita
The Prophet
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye