What to Read After Beowulf
Readers who loved Beowulf by Seamus Heaney keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Beowulf 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 Beowulf
Metamorphoses
Paradise Lost
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Canterbury Tales
Night
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
The Epic of Gilgamesh
A Light in the Attic
The Complete Poems
A Separate Peace
Antigone
Othello
The Crucible
"The yellow wallpaper" and other stories
The Taming of the Shrew
Rime of the ancient mariner
King Lear
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Grendel
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead
The Cask of Amontillado
Julius Caesar
The Importance of Being Earnest
Macbeth