What to Read After Arabian Nights
Readers who loved Arabian Nights by Scheherazade keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Arabian Nights 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 Arabian Nights
Folktales from India
The Red Fairy Book
Monkey
Enchanted Castle; and Five Children and It
Japanese Tales (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)
Tanglewood Tales
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
The Epic of Gilgamesh
History of Philosophy, Volume 1 (History of Philosophy)
Reconciliation
Tao Te Ching
The Yacoubian building
Death and the King's Horseman
Rashomon and Other Stories
Palace Walk
History of the Arab Peoples
Arabian Nights and Days
Orientalism
The King Must Die
Sexing the Cherry
Leo Africanus
Woman at Point Zero
Winter's Tale
The Art of Fiction