What to Read After Herodotus
Readers who loved Herodotus by Herodotus keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Herodotus 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 Herodotus
The Conquest of Gaul
The rise of the Roman Empire
Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)
The Spartans
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
2666
1491
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Brideshead Revisited
The English Patient
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Gulliver's Travels
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Guns, germs, and steel
Ulysses
David Copperfield
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Catch-22
Robinson Crusoe
Northanger Abbey
The Grapes of Wrath
Watership Down
The Prince