What to Read After Venice
Readers who loved Venice by John Julius Norwich keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Venice 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 Venice
Iron Kingdom
The House of Medici, its rise and fall
City of fortune
The Sicilian Vespers
The Quest for El Cid
Borgias
April Blood
The Dutch Republic
Rome
Frederick II
The Medici
Sailing from Byzantium
The devil's broker
The Embarrassment of Riches
Brunelleschi's dome
A Distant Mirror
A short history of Byzantium
Byzantium
Saladin
Europe
The Normans in Sicily
The Middle Sea
Absolute monarchs
Vanished Kingdoms