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The Histories by Herodotus (410), The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius (294), Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (195), The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar (226), The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (313), The Anabasis [in translation] by Xenophon (156), The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (143), (126), The Civil War by Julius Caesar (119), The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Herodotus (106), History of Rome, books 1-5 [in translation] by Titus Livy (167), The Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme (81), The Annals of Tacitus by Tacitus (177), Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt (122), The Histories by Polybius (98), Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland (120), Augustus : The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt (95), The Letters by Pliny the Younger (87), Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens by James Davidson (78), The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian (94), The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece, from Utopia to Crisis and Collapse by Paul Cartledge (78), The Secret History by Procopius (96), The Trojan War: A New History by Barry S. Strauss (64), The Punic Wars by Adrian Goldsworthy (67), From the Gracchi to Nero by H. H. Scullard (69)
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The Odyssey by Homer (764), The Iliad by Homer (715), The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (604), The Aeneid (translations) by Virgil (574), Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (546), The Histories by Herodotus (467), Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (456), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) by J. K. Rowling (455), Animal Farm by George Orwell (441), Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (433), William Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare (424), Beowulf by Beowulf Poet (420), The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (420), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (417), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (414), The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (409), Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (405), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (404), The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (403), To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (402), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (402), The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (401), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (400), Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (394), The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (392)



