What to Read After Empire
Readers who loved Empire by Henry Kamen keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where 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 Empire
The Incas (Peoples of America)
Conquest of the Incas
Memory and the Mediterranean
The Aztecs (Ancient Peoples and Places (Thames and Hudson), V. 107.)
Jews of Spain
Ancient Iraq
Imperial Spain
The Quest for El Cid
Muslim Spain and Portugal
Pursuit of Glory
A Land So Strange
The Futurist Cookbook
Letters from Mexico
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
Columbus
The Pinochet File
When China ruled the seas
Catherine the Great
Stranger in a Strange Land
Atlas Shrugged
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Foundation
Slaughterhouse-Five
World War Z