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
Rome and Italy
Two lives of Charlemagne
A short history of Byzantium
Count Belisarius
Pharsalia
Agricola
Byzantium
The Conquest of Gaul
Selected Works
The History of the Church
Fall of the Roman Republic
Cicero
A history of medieval Europe
Selected Letters
Agricola Germania
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)
On Sparta (Penguin Classics)
The Peloponnesian War
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged