What to Read After Samuel Pepys
Readers who loved Samuel Pepys by Claire Tomalin keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Samuel Pepys 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 Samuel Pepys
Diaries of Samuel Pepys
London
Life of Samuel Johnson
The Lunar Men
Restoration London
Shakespeare
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Writing Home
Pursuit of Glory
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
Coleridge
Royal Charles
Royal Affair
Ungrateful Daughters
Mrs Keppel and her daughter
Shakespeare
Stuart
Thomas Hardy
The Gunpowder Plot
Cromwell
Charles Dickens
The Thames
The fires of Vesuvius
Aristocrats