What to Read After Monkey
Readers who loved Monkey by Wu Cheng'en keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Monkey 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 Monkey
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Penguin Classics)
Water Margin
Six records of a floating life
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
Gilgamesh
Arabian Nights
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Arabian Nights
Arabian Nights
The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tales from 1001 Arabian Nights
Arabian Nights
Shui hu zhuan
Gilgamesh
The epic of Gilgamesh
Romance of the three kingdoms
Wolf Totem
The dancing girl of Izu and other stories
Red Sorghum
Shikasta
Raise the Red Lantern
The Killing Ground (Ultramarines)
Journey to the West, Volume 1 (Journey to the West)