What to Read After Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Readers who loved Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 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 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Faerie queene
Parzival
Arthurian romances
The Tain
Troilus and Criseyde
The Arthurian encyclopedia
Héloïse et Abélard
The Anglo-Saxon World
The history of the kings of Britain
Le Morte d'Arthur
Metamorphoses
Beowulf
Everyman
The bloody chamber and other stories
King Henry V
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818 text)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead
The Rape of the Lock
The homecoming
Arcadia
Much Ado About Nothing
Goodbye To Berlin
The Waste Land
Henry IV, Part 2