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
The conference of the birds
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The blind owl
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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)
The conference of the birds
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Conference of the Birds
Gilgamesh
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
The Story of Layla & Majnun
The epic of Gilgamesh
A Giraffe and a Half
504 Absolutely Essential Words
The missing piece meets the Big O
Scarlett
My Uncle Napoleon
Dear Enemy