What to Read After The Return of the Shadow
Readers who loved The Return of the Shadow by J.R.R. Tolkien keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Return of the Shadow 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 Return of the Shadow
The Atlas of Middle-earth
The Languages of Middle-Earth
J.R.R. Tolkien
The War of the Ring
The lost road and other writings
The Treason of Isengard
Sauron Defeated
The Lays of Beleriand
Shaping of Middle-Earth
Morgoth's Ring
The war of the jewels
The peoples of Middle-earth
The Book of Lost Tales [2/2]
The letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
The Book of Lost Tales [1/2]
Bilbo's Last Song (At the Grey Havens)
Tree and Leaf
Tales from the Perilous Realm
Smith of Wooten Major and Farmer Giles of Ham
J.R.R. Tolkien's sanctifying myth
The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth
The Maps of Tolkien's Middle-earth
The new Tolkien companion
The Philosophy of Tolkien