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
Madame de Sade
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 miner
Sources of Japanese tradition
The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa
Five modern nō plays.
Other Voices, Other Vistas
Embracing Defeat
Naomi
Patriotism
Kokoro
砂の女
Silence
Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)
Maus II
Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
The Turn of the Screw
Cloud Atlas
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
King Lear
Guns, germs, and steel