What to Read After Persian Fire
Readers who loved Persian Fire by Tom Holland keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Persian Fire 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 Persian Fire
The Peloponnesian War
The Spartans
Fall of the Roman Empire
1453
A War Like No Other
The ghosts of Cannae
Lords of the sea
The Classical World
Ghost on the throne
Rubicon
In the shadow of the sword
The fall of the Roman Empire
Alexander the Great
Caesar
The rise of Rome
Dividing the spoils
Soldiers and Ghosts
Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world
Dynasty
Augustus
The Fall of Berlin, 1945
Moscow 1812
The Punic wars
Jerusalem