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
Japanese Tales (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)
Monkey
Enchanted Castle; and Five Children and It
Tanglewood Tales
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tao Te Ching
ʻImārat Yaʻqūbiyān
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
Léon l'Africain
Woman at Point Zero
The art of fiction
The Enchantress of Florence
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine (Signet Classics)
The autobiography of Henry VIII with notes by his fool, Will Somers