What to read after the kite runner?

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Have just finished reading this and was so impressed.. Any recommendations to follow this? Everything I pick up seems flat in comparison

I think I read Thousand splendid suns after the Kite Runner. Great books.

A Thousand Splendid Suns? That was his next book and I actually preferred it!

A thousand splendid suns by the same author. I enjoyed this much more than kite runner- which I loved.

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One of my favourite books! I was gutted to find out that he hadn't written any other books at the time. I have since read thousand splenid suns and liked it, but not as much.

Not sure what to recommend, i had the same problem for ages -everything else seemed flat.

^^What they said.

One of those books that stays with you.

A thousand splendid suns it is....thanks

Snow by orhan pamuk after that, or any other pamuk novels. He's a much celebrated Turkish writer ( possibly Nobel literature prize winner) and his novels are beautifully visual and visceral.

I liked The Book Thief by Markus Ziusak
The Girls by Lori Lansesn

For anyone who loved A Thousand Splendid Suns, A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman is similar in theme and tone but better IMO. I met the author; she used to be a journalist campaigning for women's rights in Sri Lanka but decided writing fiction might portray important issues more effectively. It doesn't read as a political argument, however; instead it is the absorbing story of two little girls brought up in the same household, one the wealthy daughter and one a servant .. with very different lives ahead of them. I really recommend it.

Great minds

I will be checking out the other suggestions made.

Definitely a 1000 Splendid Suns, but Harmattan by Gavin WEston is relatively new and which is absolutely up there! Set in Niger