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
A History of Christianity
Bismarck
Jesus Wars
The closing of the Western mind
The Great Sea
The Medici
The Crusades
God's Jury
HOLY WAR
The Reformation
Saints & Sinners
God's Bankers
Vanished Kingdoms
Render unto Rome
The Classical World
Christianity
Byzantium
A short history of Byzantium
Venice
The Borgias and their enemies
The House of Medici, its rise and fall
The Middle Sea
Foundation
The Tigress of Forlì