I finished reading *Quo Vadis* (Henryk Sienkiewicz) a few months ago. Loved the way the book immersed me into its world, giving so much details about Roman society and its behavior without being overwhelming.
I’m looking for more historic books, fiction or not, which could give me a detailed insight of a civilization or an epoch in particular. I would prefer for the book to not require much previous knowledge to understand the narration environment. If I hadn’t studied classic culture, Latin and Greek on high school, I wouldn’t have understood or appreciated some elements of *Quo Vadis*.
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Historical Fiction:
*I, Claudius* by Robert Graves
*Stonehedge: A Novel* by Bernard Cornwell
*Taj: A Story of Mughal India* by Timeri N. Murari
Non-Fiction:
*SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome* by Mary Beard
*Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East* by Amanda H. Podany
*The Story of Egypt: The Civilization That Shaped the World* by Joann Fletcher
*Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans* by Francis Pryor
*Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind* by Edith Hall
*Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization* by Richard Miles
*India: A History* by John Keay
*Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire* by Jason Goodwin
*Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire* by John Man
*A History of Japan* by J. G. Caiger and Richard Mason
*1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed* by Eric Cline