What to Read After History of the Persian Empire
Readers who loved History of the Persian Empire by A.T. Olmstead keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where History of the Persian Empire 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 History of the Persian Empire
The Sumerians.
History Begins at Sumer.
Gods, demons, and symbols of ancient Mesopotamia
Travel in the ancient world.
The kingdom of the Hittites
The Hittites
Gilgamesh the King
Sumerians
The ancient engineers
The Goths
Early medieval Europe, 300-1000
Middle-eastern Mythology
The Greco-Persian wars
Arab historians of the Crusades
The Vikings
Iron Kingdom
Fall of the Roman Republic
The last tycoon
Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world
Neither here nor there
John Adams
Ivanhoe
Stranger in a Strange Land
For Whom the Bell Tolls