🏮 Asian Classics: 74-Book Reading List

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Tick off each book as you read it. 9 of these 74 Asian classics are free to read online at pagineapp.com/classics/asian, with author guides and links to the rest.

China

☐1.The Book of Songs — Anonymous (600 BC)

☐2.The Art of War — Sun Tzu (500 BC) · free on Pagine

☐3.The Analects — Confucius (475 BC) · free on Pagine

☐4.Tao Te Ching — Laozi (400 BC) · free on Pagine

☐5.Zhuangzi — Zhuangzi (300 BC)

☐6.Records of the Grand Historian — Sima Qian (94 BC)

☐7.Poems of Li Bai — Li Bai (AD 760)

☐8.Poems of Du Fu — Du Fu (AD 770)

☐9.Romance of the Three Kingdoms — Luo Guanzhong (1380)

☐10.Water Margin — Shi Nai’an (1400)

☐11.Journey to the West — Wu Cheng’en (1592)

☐12.Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio — Pu Songling (1740)

☐13.The Scholars — Wu Jingzi (1750)

☐14.Dream of the Red Chamber — Cao Xueqin (1791)

☐15.A Madman’s Diary — Lu Xun (1918)

☐16.The True Story of Ah Q — Lu Xun (1921)

☐17.Family — Ba Jin (1933)

☐18.Border Town — Shen Congwen (1934)

☐19.Rickshaw Boy — Lao She (1937)

☐20.Love in a Fallen City — Eileen Chang (1943)

☐21.Red Sorghum — Mo Yan (1986)

☐22.To Live — Yu Hua (1993)

Japan

☐23.Man’yōshū — Anonymous (AD 759)

☐24.The Pillow Book — Sei Shōnagon (1002)

☐25.The Tale of Genji — Murasaki Shikibu (1010)

☐26.An Account of My Hut — Kamo no Chōmei (1212)

☐27.The Tale of the Heike — Anonymous (1330)

☐28.Essays in Idleness — Yoshida Kenkō (1332)

☐29.The Narrow Road to the Deep North — Matsuo Bashō (1702)

☐30.I Am a Cat — Natsume Sōseki (1905)

☐31.Botchan — Natsume Sōseki (1906) · free on Pagine

☐32.Kokoro — Natsume Sōseki (1914)

☐33.Rashōmon and Other Stories — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1915)

☐34.Night on the Galactic Railroad — Kenji Miyazawa (1934)

☐35.Snow Country — Yasunari Kawabata (1948)

☐36.The Makioka Sisters — Jun’ichirō Tanizaki (1948)

☐37.No Longer Human — Osamu Dazai (1948)

☐38.The Temple of the Golden Pavilion — Yukio Mishima (1956)

☐39.Silence — Shūsaku Endō (1966)

☐40.Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami (1987)

☐41.Kitchen — Banana Yoshimoto (1988)

India

☐42.The Rig Veda — Anonymous (1200 BC)

☐43.The Ramayana — Valmiki (300 BC)

☐44.The Mahabharata — Vyasa (300 BC)

☐45.The Bhagavad Gita — Vyasa (200 BC) · free on Pagine

☐46.The Panchatantra — Vishnu Sharma (200 BC)

☐47.Jataka Tales — Anonymous (300 BC)

☐48.Shakuntala — Kalidasa (AD 400)

☐49.The Cloud Messenger — Kalidasa (AD 400)

☐50.Gitanjali — Rabindranath Tagore (1912) · free on Pagine

☐51.The Home and the World — Rabindranath Tagore (1916) · free on Pagine

☐52.Devdas — Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1917)

☐53.The Story of My Experiments with Truth — Mahatma Gandhi (1927)

☐54.Pather Panchali — Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1929)

☐55.Untouchable — Mulk Raj Anand (1935)

☐56.Swami and Friends — R. K. Narayan (1935)

☐57.Godaan — Premchand (1936)

☐58.Kanthapura — Raja Rao (1938)

☐59.Malgudi Days — R. K. Narayan (1943)

☐60.Train to Pakistan — Khushwant Singh (1956)

☐61.The Guide — R. K. Narayan (1958)

☐62.A Suitable Boy — Vikram Seth (1993)

☐63.The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy (1997)

Persia & the Arab world

☐64.One Thousand and One Nights — Anonymous (AD 900)

☐65.Shahnameh — Ferdowsi (1010)

☐66.Hayy ibn Yaqzan — Ibn Tufail (1160)

☐67.The Conference of the Birds — Attar of Nishapur (1177)

☐68.The Gulistan — Saadi (1258)

☐69.Masnavi — Rumi (1273)

☐70.The Divan of Hafez — Hafez (1368)

☐71.The Muqaddimah — Ibn Khaldun (1377)

☐72.The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Omar Khayyam (1859) · free on Pagine

☐73.The Prophet — Kahlil Gibran (1923) · free on Pagine

☐74.The Blind Owl — Sadegh Hedayat (1937)

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