What to Read After Ajax
Readers who loved Ajax by Sophocles keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Ajax 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 Ajax
Prometheus Bound
Iphigenia in Aulis
Birds
Philoctetes
Iphigenia in Tauris
Phaedra
Electra
Oedipus at Colonus
Hippolytus
Clouds
Bacchae
Frogs
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh
Romeo & Juliet (adaptation)
Seven against Thebes
Electra
Theogony
Oresteia
Eumenides
Sophocles II
The Bacchae, and other plays
Poems and Fragments
Sappho