What to Read After The Secret History
Readers who loved The Secret History by Procopius keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Secret History 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 Secret History
The rise of the Roman Empire
The Agricola and the Germania
The later Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378)
The Alexiad
Two lives of Charlemagne
A short history of Byzantium
Count Belisarius
Pharsalia
The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX
Agricola
Byzantium
The World of Late Antiquity AD 150-750
The Conquest of Gaul
Selected works
The History of the Church
Fall of the Roman Republic
A history of medieval Europe
Cicero
Agricola Germania
Selected letters
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)
On Sparta (Penguin Classics)
The Peloponnesian War