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Book Lists (in the process of being updated)
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What We Are Currently Reading

Tiberius: The Memoirs of the Emperor
by Allan Massie
July 15

August Recess

2009 Reading Calendar

Recent:
Satires by Horace
The Skystone (The Camulod Chronicles, Book 1)
The Golden Ass
Literature on Lucius Sergius Catilina
Winter Quarters
Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest
(author chat)
The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest
Roma: The Novel of Ancient Rome
The Beginnings of Rome: Italy From the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (Circa 1,000 to 264 B.C.)
The Sand-Reckoner
The Iron Hand of Mars
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
The Eagle in the Snow
The Beginnings of Rome
Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome
Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire
Works by Ovid
The Roman Revolution
The Ides of March
More Gibbon
Fortune's Favorites
Venus in Copper
Juvenal: The Satires
Three's Company
A History of the Roman World 753 to 146 BC
Pompeii: A Novel
More Gibbon
The Grass Crown
Sand of the Arena
(author chat)
The Legatus Mystery
Plautus Comedies
Kingdom of the Wicked
More Gibbon
Bearkeeper's Daughter
Imperial Purple
The Agricola and The Germania
The Barbarians Speak
The First Man in Rome

Blogs
Irene’s Blog
N.S. Gill’s Blog at About.com

Ancient Rome
as seen in the year 2001
A House in Pompeii

Tracing Roman Germania
Irene's Travelogue 1999
2002 travelogue mostly completed
Tracing Roman Germania 2003
still in the works due to a hard drive crash…

Book Reviews
Medicus (mystery)
The Fight for Rome: A Gladiators of the Empire Novel
The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire
Justinian's Flea
Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day
A Coin for the Ferryman (mystery)
Saturnalia (mystery)
In at the Death (mystery)
Roma: The Novel of Ancient Rome
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
Roman Woodworking
Rome's Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric
The Last Roman: Romulus Augustulus and the Decline of the West
Belisarius: The First Shall Be Last
Caesar: Life of a Colossus
Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome
The Chronicle of Zenobia: The Rebel Queen
Getorix: The Eagle and The Bull: A Celtic Adventure in Ancient Rome
Rome's Greatest Defeat: The Battle in the Teutoburg Forest
All of Irene's Reviews
Ancient History at About.com: Guide Reviews - Guest Reviews

Nonfiction reviews may be submitted to this site.
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