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
Outlaws of the Marsh
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Penguin Classics)
The Book and the Sword
Water Margin
Six Records of a Floating Life
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Arabian Nights
Arabian Nights
Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei
Arabian Nights
Tales from 1001 Arabian Nights
The epic of Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh
The epic of Gilgamesh
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Wolf Totem
The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories
Red Sorghum
Runaway Horses (The Sea of Fertility)
Mencius (Penguin Classics)
Shikasta