What to Read After The Embarrassment of Riches
Readers who loved The Embarrassment of Riches by Simon Schama keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Embarrassment of Riches 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 The Embarrassment of Riches
The island at the center of the world
The Dutch Republic
Civilization and capitalism, 15th-18th century
Painting and experience in fifteenth century Italy
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 1
The making of Europe
The great cat massacre and other episodes in French cultural history
The Sicilian Vespers
The art of describing
Wonders and the order of nature, 1150-1750
Venice
The Reformation
The unDutchables
Brunelleschi's dome
Landscape and memory
Rough Crossings
Vermeer
Vermeer's hat
An Illustrated History of Modern Europe, 1789-1984
Rembrandt's eyes
Iron Kingdom
Fin-De-Siecle Vienna
A short history of Byzantium
From Dawn to Decadence