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
The Sicilian Vespers
City of Fortune
Rome
The Quest for El Cid
Frederick II
April Blood
Borgias
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
The Dutch Republic
The Medici
The Devil's Broker
The Embarrassment of Riches
Sailing from Byzantium
Brunelleschi's Dome
A Distant Mirror
A short history of Byzantium
Byzantium
Florence
Europe
Saladin
The Normans in Sicily
The Middle Sea