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 Book of the City of Ladies
Two lives of Charlemagne
A short history of Byzantium
Héloïse et Abélard
The fall of Constantinople, 1453-
The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire
Sailing from Byzantium
Constantinople
1453
Maurice's Strategikon
The Normans in Sicily
The Chronicles of Froissart [EasyRead Large Edition]
Ibn Fadlan's journey to Russia
The History of the Church
The rise of the Roman Empire
Arab historians of the Crusades
The first crusade
The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX
The Riverside Chaucer
Concerning the city of God against the pagans