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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 470 times as rome)
avg rating 4.06 — 80,761 ratings — published 2015
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as rome)
avg rating 4.23 — 27,073 ratings — published 2003
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 255 times as rome)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,927 ratings — published 1934
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as rome)
avg rating 4.03 — 22,735 ratings — published 121
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as rome)
avg rating 4.25 — 15,696 ratings — published 2017
Caesar: Life of a Colossus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as rome)
avg rating 4.24 — 13,154 ratings — published 2006
The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 186 times as rome)
avg rating 4.13 — 24,277 ratings — published 1990
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as rome)
avg rating 4.28 — 341,541 ratings — published 180
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 179 times as rome)
avg rating 3.87 — 142,879 ratings — published -19
Imperium (Cicero, #1)
by (shelved 172 times as rome)
avg rating 4.14 — 40,894 ratings — published 2006
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 144 times as rome)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,021 ratings — published 2015
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as rome)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,988 ratings — published 2014
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as rome)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,315 ratings — published 2006
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as rome)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,456 ratings — published 1776
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as rome)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,261 ratings — published 2001
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as rome)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,862 ratings — published -29
The Punic Wars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as rome)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,472 ratings — published 2000
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as rome)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,488 ratings — published -50
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as rome)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,179 ratings — published 2009
Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (Claudius, #2)
by (shelved 113 times as rome)
avg rating 4.20 — 16,695 ratings — published 1934
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as rome)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,326 ratings — published 2005
The Gates of Rome (Emperor, #1)
by (shelved 105 times as rome)
avg rating 4.20 — 30,590 ratings — published 2003
The Silver Pigs (Marcus Didius Falco, #1)
by (shelved 103 times as rome)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,642 ratings — published 1989
Memoirs of Hadrian (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as rome)
avg rating 4.22 — 35,692 ratings — published 1951
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as rome)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,296 ratings — published 116
The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as rome)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,455 ratings — published 2012
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as rome)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,693 ratings — published 2011
The Grass Crown (Masters of Rome, #2)
by (shelved 98 times as rome)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,242 ratings — published 1990
Augustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as rome)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,790 ratings — published 1972
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as rome)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,977 ratings — published 2023
Caesar's Women (Masters of Rome, #4)
by (shelved 90 times as rome)
avg rating 4.29 — 7,734 ratings — published 1996
Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as rome)
avg rating 4.02 — 30,669 ratings — published 2010
Conspirata (Cicero, #2)
by (shelved 88 times as rome)
avg rating 4.26 — 21,704 ratings — published 2009
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as rome)
avg rating 4.10 — 78,035 ratings — published 8
Fortune's Favorites (Masters of Rome, #3)
by (shelved 87 times as rome)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,725 ratings — published 1993
Caesar (Masters of Rome, #5)
by (shelved 87 times as rome)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,383 ratings — published 1997
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as rome)
avg rating 3.71 — 218,684 ratings — published 1599
Roman Blood (Roma Sub Rosa, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as rome)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,386 ratings — published 1991
In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as rome)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,390 ratings — published 2003
Pax Romana (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as rome)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,276 ratings — published 2016
The Rise of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as rome)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,853 ratings — published -170
The October Horse (Masters of Rome #6)
by (shelved 76 times as rome)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,578 ratings — published 2002
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as rome)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,787 ratings — published 2023
The Roman Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as rome)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,011 ratings — published 1939
The Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as rome)
avg rating 4.07 — 7,197 ratings — published -47
Under the Eagle (Eagles of the Empire, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as rome)
avg rating 4.10 — 16,106 ratings — published 2000
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as rome)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,071 ratings — published 2020
Antony and Cleopatra (Masters of Rome, #7)
by (shelved 66 times as rome)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,260 ratings — published 2007
“Look," Percy continued, "I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in the nineteen eighties-"
"He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.”
― The Son of Neptune
"He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.”
― The Son of Neptune
“Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic of the peasant of the white and purple toga of a senator. And yet in the weakest of men, in moments when they are alone and themselves, I have found veins of strength like gold in decaying rock; in the cruelest of men, flashes of tenderness and compassion; and in the vainest of men, moments of simplicity and grace.”
― Augustus
― Augustus














