 | Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.38 Tom Holland gets some flack for being a little gullible, and it's true that he generally goes with the mst exciting theory for any given topic, but I still think his books are just fine.
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 | The Odyssey by Homer
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $4.75 So much weirder and more complicated than the Iliad. Not better - not quite as good - just weirder.
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 | Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.) by Anthony Bourdain
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.49 Bourdain's got interesting things to say and all, but gah I hate the way he talks.
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 | The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics) by Plato
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $6.37 You know who else has interesting things to say? This guy.
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 | The Three Theban Plays (Penguin Classics) by Sophocles
Buy new: $8.40 / Used from: $3.75 omg I love Bernard Knox so much
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 | Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths by Robin Waterfield
Buy new: $15.87 / Used from: $11.50 |
 | The Oldest Dead White European Males: And Other Reflections On The Classics by Knox Bernard
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $0.01 I love Bernard Knox's introductions to Fagles' translations, but this wasn't all that great.
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 | Hannibal: Enemy Of Rome by Leonard Cottrell
Buy new: $14.53 / Used from: $2.16 Boy, do I not like this book.
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 | The Aeneid by Virgil
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $4.68 This thing is AWWWWWWWESOME yo.
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 | Terry Jones' Barbarians: An Alternative Roman History by Terry Jones
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $9.48 Perfectly well-researched and smart, but the history is difficult to follow because Jones jumps around so much.
Read a great deal of this during jury duty.
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 | Metamorphoses: A New Translation by Charles Martin by Ovid
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $7.36 Read during one particularly long stretch while drinking wine by myself and trying to keep track of the overlapping characters. Gave myself quite a long speech about how stupid the "rap" section was.
A wonderful, transcendent poem of sneaky beauty.
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 | The End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome by Christopher Kelly
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $10.00 |
 | Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata (Meridian classics) by Aristophanes
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.79 The Birds particularly spoke to me; I imagined remaking it as a hallucinatory children's cartoon.
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 | Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $25.05 Like most surveys of a long period of time, gets numbing after a while; but they have their uses as an introduction to a period. You make mental notes as you go: I should learn more about this or that specific person or event.
Finished during a long sick day.
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 | Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese by Brad Kessler
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $10.21 A luminescent work. Devoured whole during a 24-hour period recovering from a cold.
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 | Ancient Iraq: Third Edition (Penguin History) by Georges Roux
Buy new: $14.53 / Used from: $6.74 Absolutely loved the first half; found the second half inexplicably difficult, despite it being arguably more interesting.
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 | Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.59 |
 | After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam by Lesley Hazleton
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $16.74 |
 | No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.72 |
 | In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors by Doug Stanton
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.00 Pretty fun. I read this entire thing in one evening while Kirs was out with the ladies.
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 | Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $4.97 |
 | When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise And Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty by Hugh Kennedy
Buy used from: $7.39 |
 | Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered by Peter S. Wells
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $7.48 |
 | Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800 by Jeff Sypeck
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.20 |
![Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) [HEART OF DARKNESS & SEL S] [Mass Market Paperback]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41J%2Bl5pVhWL._SL75_.jpg) | Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) [HEART OF DARKNESS & SEL S] [Mass Market Paperback]
Buy used from: $3.00 Man, this book is mean.
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