What to Read After The Gardens of Light
Readers who loved The Gardens of Light by Amin Maalouf keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Gardens of Light 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 Gardens of Light
The book of Saladin
Samarkand
The Crusades through Arab eyes
The first century after Beatrice
Balthasar's Odyssey
Ports of Call
Alamut
Leo Africanus
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
Black Book
Gate of the sun
In Praise of the Stepmother
The Gaze
I'jaam
A Tear and a Smile
My Universities
The Slave
Flight of Storks
The Library at Night
Out of Place
Sharon and My Mother-in-law
Triumph of Caesar
Gladiator Dies Only Once
The judgment of Caesar