What to Read After Silence
Readers who loved Silence by Shūsaku Endō keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Silence 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 Silence
Fires on the Plain (Tuttle Classics)
Kokoro
砂の女
The Power and the Glory
Till We Have Faces
Gilead
The End of the Affair (Twentieth Century Classics)
Confessions of a mask
The sea and poison
The Great Divorce
The Seven Storey Mountain
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Perelandra
Black rain
The Twilight Years
The Diary of a Country Priest
The Face of Another
waiting years
Kappa
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels
Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Translations from the Asian Classics)
Orthodoxy
The Man Who Was Thursday
Botchan