What to Read After The Alexiad
Readers who loved The Alexiad by Anna Comnena keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Alexiad 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 Alexiad
The Secret History
Byzantium
The later Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378)
The Treasure of the City of Ladies, or, The Book of the Three Virtues
The fall of Constantinople, 1453
The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire
Constantinople
The Book of the City of Ladies
Héloïse et Abélard
Two lives of Charlemagne
Sailing from Byzantium
A short history of Byzantium
Byzantium
Maurice's Strategikon
Belisarius
The Normans in Sicily
The Chronicles of Froissart [EasyRead Large Edition]
1453
Ibn Fadlan's journey to Russia
The travels of Sir John Mandeville
The History of the Church
The rise of the Roman Empire
Arab historians of the Crusades
Rome and Italy