What to Read After Beowulf
Readers who loved Beowulf by Anonymous keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Beowulf 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 Beowulf
Edda
The Discarded Image
Opened Ground
Kalevala
The sagas of Icelanders
The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays
The Riverside Chaucer
Metamorphoses
Paradise Lost
The book of Margery Kempe
Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics)
Faerie Queene
Egil's Saga
Moments of Being
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Washington Square
The epic of Gilgamesh
King Henry V
Medea and Other Plays
Henry IV, Part 2
Troilus and Criseyde
King Richard II
Black Spring
Cymbeline