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
Ancient Iraq
Aztec Thought and Culture
A History of the Ancient Near East
Gods, demons, and symbols of ancient Mesopotamia
The Sumerians.
The kingdom of the Hittites
The Classical World
Catastrophe
Trojan War
Courtesans & Fishcakes
The Aztecs (Ancient Peoples and Places (Thames and Hudson), V. 107.)
The Cave Painters
The History of the Ancient World
History of the Ancient near East, Ca. 3000-323 BC
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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