What to Read After The fires of Vesuvius
Readers who loved The fires of Vesuvius by Mary Beard keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The fires of Vesuvius 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 fires of Vesuvius
Rubicon
A day in the life of ancient Rome
A history of the world in 100 objects
A history of private life
Goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves
In search of the Trojan War
Caesars' wives
The Last Days of Pompeii
Rome
Rome and Jerusalem
The hemlock cup
The history of the ancient world
The Classical World
History of the Ancient World
The last girls of Pompeii
The Colosseum
Samuel Pepys
The Spartans
Fall of the Roman Empire
The Peloponnesian War
SPQR
Venice
The Punic wars
Hadrian