What to Read After Beowulf
Readers who loved Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien 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
Edda
The Riverside Chaucer
The discarded image
Kalevala
The monsters and the critics, and other essays
Opened Ground
The sagas of Icelanders
Metamorphoses
Paradise Lost
Tales from the Perilous Realm
The Father Christmas letters
Roverandom
The Children of Húrin
The Silmarillion
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
The Blade Itself
The Lies of Locke Lamora
The Hero of Ages
The Two Towers
The Well of Ascension
The Wise Man’s Fear
The Final Empire
The Hobbit
Fellowship of the Ring