What to Read After Obasan
Readers who loved Obasan by Joy Kogawa keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Obasan 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 Obasan
The jade peony
Monkey beach
Green grass, running water
Swamp Angel (New Canadian Library)
Disappearing Moon Cafe
Looking like the enemy
Bonheur d'occasion
Sunshine sketches of a little town
Kiss of the fur queen
Two solitudes
Who has seen the wind
A Bird in the House
Surfacing
The stone angel
A complicated kindness
The wars
Through Black Spruce
What We All Long For
Diviners
February
Not wanted on the voyage
No great mischief
Away
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz