What to Read After Byzantium
Readers who loved Byzantium by Judith Herrin keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Byzantium 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 Byzantium
A short history of Byzantium
1453
The fall of Constantinople, 1453-
The Alexiad
God's War
Rome and Jerusalem
The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire
Constantinople
Sailing from Byzantium
The Middle Sea
After Tamerlane
The Inheritance of Rome
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
Persian Fire
The first crusade
The Crusades
Osman's dream
Iron Kingdom
The Secret History
The Spartans
The Reformation
Vanished Kingdoms
The rise of Rome
The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX