What to Read After Absolute monarchs
Readers who loved Absolute monarchs by John Julius Norwich keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Absolute monarchs 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 Absolute monarchs
The closing of the Western mind
Bismarck
Jesus wars
Vanished Kingdoms
The great sea
The Crusades
God's Jury
HOLY WAR
God's Bankers
The Medici
The Classical World
The Reformation
Render unto Rome
The Rise of Western Christendom
Christianity
A short history of Byzantium
Venice
The Borgias and their enemies
The House of Medici, its rise and fall
The Middle Sea
The Tigress of Forlì
Persian Fire
The kings' mistresses
From Dawn to Decadence