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 Arabian Nights
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh
Arabian Nights
The epic of Gilgamesh
Tales from 1001 Arabian Nights
Shui Hu Zhuan
Love in a Fallen City
The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei
Arabian Nights
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh
The epic of Gilgamesh
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
The narrow road to the Deep North, and other travel sketches
Wolf Totem
The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories
Red Sorghum