What to Read After Chūshingura
Readers who loved Chūshingura by Takeda, Izumo et. al. keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Chūshingura 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 Chūshingura
The Miner
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)
Four major plays of Chikamatsu
The Broken Commandment
A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government
The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa
Madame de Sade
Sources of Japanese tradition
Other Voices, Other Vistas
The Gossamer Years =
Five Modern Nō Plays.
Embracing Defeat
Naomi
The narrow road to the Deep North, and other travel sketches
Patriotism
Kokoro
The Woman in the dunes
Silence
Maus II
The Turn of the Screw
Summer Knight
Cloud Atlas
King Lear
Guns, Germs, and Steel