What to Read After The Great Sea
Readers who loved The Great Sea by David Abulafia keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Great Sea 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 Great Sea
Vanished Kingdoms
City of Fortune
The Middle Sea
The Orientalist
Why the West Rules - For Now
At Day's Close
A History of the World in 100 Objects
1493
The Making of the Middle Sea
The Swerve
Jerusalem
Agents of Empire
Absolute Monarchs
The Silk Roads
Rites of Peace
After Tamerlane
A History of the World in 12 Maps
The Sicilian Vespers
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 1
HOLY WAR
A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Salonica, City of Ghosts
Rubicon
The Classical World