What to Read After Kokoro
Readers who loved Kokoro by Soseki Natsume keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Kokoro 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 Kokoro
Rashomon and Other Stories
Black Rain
Palm-of-the-hand Stories
Asleep
The Setting Sun
Masks
Wild Geese
Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Translations from the Asian Classics)
Fires on the Plain (Tuttle Classics)
Botchan
The Woman in the dunes
Kitchen
Naomi
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Runaway Horses (The Sea of Fertility)
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Out
House of the Sleeping Beauties
Housekeeper and the Professor
Pinball, 1973
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
The Lake
Silence
An Artist of the Floating World