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.
Gods, demons, and symbols of ancient Mesopotamia
Travel in the Ancient World.
The Hittites
History Begins at Sumer.
Ancient Iraq
The kingdom of the Hittites
Gilgamesh the King
The Greco-Persian wars
Rome and Italy
Arab historians of the Crusades
The Vikings
The Ancient Engineers
Early medieval Europe, 300-1000
Middle-eastern Mythology
Sumerians
The Goths
Iron Kingdom
Fall of the Roman Republic
The Last Tycoon
John Adams
Ivanhoe
Stranger in a Strange Land
For Whom the Bell Tolls