What to Read After Sword & citadel
Readers who loved Sword & citadel by Gene Wolfe keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Sword & citadel 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 Sword & citadel
The Scar
Tales of the Dying Earth
Shadow & Claw
The Iron Council
Viriconium
The Urth of the New Sun
The Gormenghast novels
The Fifth Head Of Cerberus
The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun, vol 3)
The Knight (The Wizard Knight, Book 1)
The claw of the conciliator
Litany of the Long Sun
The Wizard
The citadel of the Autarch
Epiphany of the Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun)
The shadow of the torturer
Latro in the mist
On Blue's Waters
The book of the new Sun
In Green's Jungles (Book of the Short Sun, Book 2)
Return to the whorl
Peace
Soldier of the mist
The History of the Runestaff