What to Read After The Epic of Gilgamesh
Readers who loved The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Epic of Gilgamesh 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 The Epic of Gilgamesh
Oresteia
Theogony
Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle
Beowulf
Antigone
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Medea
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Metamorphoses
Lysistrata
Rime of the ancient mariner
The Arabian Nights
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales [15 stories]
Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [34 stories, 17 poems]
The Canterbury Tales
Notes From Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections From the House of the Dead
Inferno
Paradise Lost
Utopia
Candide
Othello
King Lear
The Tempest
Leaves of Grass