What to Read After The Persian Boy
Readers who loved The Persian Boy by Mary Renault keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Persian Boy 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 The Persian Boy
As meat loves salt
Fire from Heaven
An arrow's flight
Funeral Games
The Last of the Wine
The King Must Die
The Bull from the Sea
The Mask of Apollo
The Praise Singer
Nature of Alexander
The Front Runner
At swim, two boys
Dream Boy
Maurice
Stalking Darkness (Nightrunner, Vol. 2)
Claudius the god and his wife Messalina
A boy's own story
I, Claudius
Wicked Gentlemen
Fatal Shadows
The Lost Language of Cranes
The God Eaters
The city and the pillar
Brokeback Mountain