What to Read After Beowulf
Readers who loved Beowulf by Howell D. Chickering 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
Paradise Lost
Opened Ground
Kalevala
The monsters and the critics, and other essays
The sagas of Icelanders
Edda
The discarded image
The Riverside Chaucer
Metamorphoses
Dragonfly in Amber
Anthem
The Woman in White
Voyager
Heart of Darkness
The Scarlet Letter
The Secret Garden
King Lear
The Chronicles of Narnia
Candide
Persuasion
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
Othello
Jane Eyre