What to Read After Gilgamesh
Readers who loved Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Gilgamesh 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 Gilgamesh
The Great Transformation
The way of Chuang Tzu
Myths from Mesopotamia
The lost books of the Odyssey
Tamburlaine the Great
Ulysses Annotated
The origin of Satan
Sophocles II
The sagas of Icelanders
Parmenides' lesson
Myths to live by
Study Quran
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward As Science With Kant's Letter to Marcus Herz, February 27, 1772
The interpretation of fairy tales
Dark age ahead
The war that killed Achilles
Thrall
Bhagavad Gita
The shadow of Sirius
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
The rise and fall of ancient Egypt
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
Nine Gates
The landmark Thucydides