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
The fall of Constantinople, 1453
The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire
Constantinople
Two lives of Charlemagne
A short history of Byzantium
Byzantium
Sailing from Byzantium
Ibn Fadlan's journey to Russia
Belisarius
The Chronicles of Froissart [EasyRead Large Edition]
The travels of Sir John Mandeville
1453
The Normans in Sicily
Maurice's Strategikon
The History of the Church
The rise of the Roman Empire
Arab historians of the Crusades
Rome and Italy
The First Crusade