What to Read After Byzantium
Readers who loved Byzantium by John Julius Norwich keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Byzantium 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 Byzantium
The fall of Constantinople, 1453
1453
Ottoman Centuries
Sailing from Byzantium
Byzantium
The Devil's Horsemen
The Crusades
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
Agents of Empire
The Secret History
The Alexiad
A history of Wales
The Knight in History
The Blue Nile
A short history of Byzantium
Venice
Persian Fire
The First Crusade
The Punic wars
The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire
Constantinople
The Inheritance of Rome
Restoration of Rome
The echo of Greece