What to Read After Mesopotamia
Readers who loved Mesopotamia by Gwendolyn Leick keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Mesopotamia 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 Mesopotamia
Courtesans & fishcakes
Gods, demons, and symbols of ancient Mesopotamia
The Aztecs (Ancient Peoples and Places (Thames and Hudson), V. 107.)
The mummies of Ürümchi
Aztec Thought and Culture
A History of the Ancient Near East
The Classical World
The kingdom of the Hittites
The Sumerians.
The history of the ancient world
The cave painters
History of the Ancient World
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Life, the Universe and Everything
The God Delusion
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The Return of the King
A Clockwork Orange
The Pillars of the Earth
On The Road
The Amber Spyglass
The Subtle Knife
A short history of nearly everything
The Stand