What to Read After The Middle East
Readers who loved The Middle East by Bernard Lewis keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Middle East 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 Middle East
History of the Arab Peoples
From Beirut to Jerusalem
A History of the Modern Middle East
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East
A History of Islamic Societies
Constantinople
The Arabs
A History of the Middle East
Ottoman Centuries
Islamic Imperialism
The Great Arab Conquests
What went wrong?
The crisis of Islam
A Peace to End All Peace
Islam
Alamut
Six Days of War
The fall of the Ottomans
The Israel lobby and U.S. foreign policy
Natasha's Dance
The Ottoman Empire
1453
Palestine
Out of Place