Currently reading
The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)
A Little History of the World
The Annals of Imperial Rome
Having listened to the author talk about these books, I decided to go back to them. Very glad I did too, now I know that all he writes about is based on fact. Never liked the 'hard-boiled' detective a la Philip Marlow, but the writing is good enough, the subject matter enthralling, the characters real enough for me to love these books.