Books like Shahnameh

12 books to read next

• Calling a Wolf a Wolf Kaveh Akbar 1.9 h
• The Butterfly's Burden Mahmud Darwish, Mahmoud Darwish, Fady Joudah 6.0 h
• Gilgamesh Stephen Mitchell 5.6 h
• Os Lusíadas Luís de Camões, Souza Botelho 7.0 h
• Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien 8.2 h
• The Aeneid / Virgil ; Translated by Robert Fitzgerald Publius Vergilius Maro 8.1 h
• The Epic of Gilgamesh Anonymous 1.5 h
• Poems Nizār Qabbānī, Nizar Kabbani, Bassam K. Frangieh, Clementina R. Brown 4.7 h
• The Conference of the Birds Farid ud-Din Attar, Raficq Abdulla, Hassan Massoudy, Farid Al Din Attar 3.5 h
• Poems and Fragments Sappho 1.8 h
• Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser 8.8 h
• Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur 4.2 h

How long each takes

Calling a Wolf a Wolf Kaveh Akbar 1.9 h The Butterfly's Burden Mahmud Darwish, Mahmoud Darwish, Fady Joudah 6.0 h Gilgamesh Stephen Mitchell 5.6 h Os Lusíadas Luís de Camões, Souza Botelho 7.0 h Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien 8.2 h The Aeneid / Virgil ; Translated by Robert Fitzgerald Publius Vergilius Maro 8.1 h The Epic of Gilgamesh Anonymous 1.5 h Poems Nizār Qabbānī, Nizar Kabbani, Bassam K. Frangieh, Clementina R. Brown 4.7 h The Conference of the Birds Farid ud-Din Attar, Raficq Abdulla, Hassan Massoudy, Farid Al Din Attar 3.5 h Poems and Fragments Sappho 1.8 h Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser 8.8 h Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur 4.2 h

Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.