What to Read After Shahnameh
Readers who loved Shahnameh by Ferdowsi keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Shahnameh 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 Shahnameh
The Divan of Hafez Pocket Edition
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Blind Owl
Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Masnavi, book one
Lafcadio, The Lion Who Shot Back
Daddy-Long-Legs
Letter to a Child Never Born
Clown (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
The epic of Gilgamesh
Conference of the Birds
The Story of Layla & Majnun
The epic of Gilgamesh
Snow White
A Giraffe and a Half
504 Absolutely Essential Words
The Missing Piece Meets the Big O
The Gift
Scarlett
Gone with the Wind II