What to Read After Lives
Readers who loved Lives by Plutarch keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Lives 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 Lives
The rise of the Roman Empire
The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX
The annals
Bluebeard
The Thin Red Line
The Dangerous Book for Boys
The book of deeds of arms and of chivalry
Ptolemy's Almagest
Ion
Another roadside attraction
Louis XI, the universal spider.
The Road to Wigan Pier
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
Rough Riders
Seek
Essential Manners for Men
The Crisis
The American boy's handy book
The frontier in American history
A Separate Peace
From the Gracchi to Nero
The Athenian constitution
The World of Late Antiquity AD 150-750
Boy scout handbook.