Read-alikes and related books

Books like Paradise Lost

Across English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Epic, European, and Literary Criticism — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Paradise Lost by John Milton.

Top related books to Paradise Lost

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Paradise Lost.

Beowulf A Verse Translation

Michael Alexander

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

John Milton

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Simon Armitage

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

The Atlas of Middle-earth

Karen Wynn Fonstad

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

Beowulf A New Feminist Translation of the Epic Poem

Maria Dahvana Headley

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

The Time Machine

H. G. Wells

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

The War of the Ring The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Three

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo

J. R. R. Tolkien

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age The Rise and Fall of a Christian Epic

Deryl Davis

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

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The Excursion, Being a Portion of the Recluse, a Poem

William Wordsworth

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

#11

Beowulf

Meghan Purvis

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

#12

The Waste Land

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

#13

Beowulf An Illustrated Edition

John D Niles

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

#14

The Masque of Anarchy – a Poem — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe. Shelley

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

#15

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

#16

Good-Bye to All That An Autobiography

Robert Graves

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

#17

Idylls of the King

Alfred Tennyson

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

#18

Pig’s Tales Stand Up Stories, Comic Poetry and Juggling Potatoes

Clive Pig

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

#19

The Complete English Poems

John Donne

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

#20

The Iliad

Homer

Themes: Epic • European • Literary Criticism

#21

The Saga of the Volsungs

Jesse L. Byock

Themes: Epic • European • Literary Criticism

#22

The Great Tales Never End Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien

Richard Ovenden

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

#23

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

#24

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil — J R R Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Epic • European

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for Paradise Lost by John Milton — spanning English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Epic, European and featuring authors such as Michael Alexander, John Milton, Simon Armitage, Karen Wynn Fonstad, and others.