Reading list for modern fiction

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Modern Fiction Set in Ancient Rome

Contents

Colleen McCullough ("Masters of Rome")

All by Colleen McCullough and in paperback, unless otherwise noted.

The First Man in Rome

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Colleen McCullough. (1991). ISBN 0380710811
Also available as an audiobook (ISBN 0671726285 ).
Buy from Amazon: Canada UK USA

The Grass Crown

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Colleen McCullough. (1992). ISBN 038071082X
Also available as an audiobook (ISBN 0671731513 ).
Buy from Amazon: Canada UK USA

Fortune's Favorites

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Colleen McCullough. (1994). ISBN 0380710838
Also available as an audiobook(ISBN 0671731521 ).
Buy from Amazon: Canada UK USA

Caesar's Women

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Colleen McCullough. (1997). ISBN 0380710846
Also available as an audiobook (ISBN 0671731548 ).
Buy from Amazon: Canada UK USA

Caesar: A Novel

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Colleen McCullough. (1997). ISBN 0060510854
Also available as an audiobook (ISBN 067173153X ).
Buy from Amazon: Canada UK USA

The October Horse

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Colleen McCullough. (2002). ISBN 0684853310
Also available as an audiobook (ISBN 0743528182 ).
Buy from Amazon: Canada UK USA

Steven Saylor ("Gordianus The Finder" mysteries)

The Arms of Nemesis

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Steven Saylor. (1995). ISBN 0804111278
Paperback. Also available as an audiobook (ISBN 0786111291 ). Marcus Crassus' estate overseer has been murdered, and 99 slaves' lives are forfeit unless Gordianus can unravel the mystery.
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Catalina's Riddle

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Steven Saylor. (1994). ISBN 080411269X
Paperback. Also available as an audiobook (ISBN 0786111771 ). Gordianus flees the hubbub of Rome for the Etruscan countryside, but finds he can't stay away from political intrigues.
Buy from Amazon: Canada UK USA

House of the Vestals

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Steven Saylor. (1997). ISBN 0312154445
Hardcover. Also available in paperback (ISBN 0312964528 ). Short stories about some of Gordianus' early adventures. Also includes a historical note about the time period between the end of Sulla's dictatorship and the Spartacus slave revolt.
Buy from Amazon: Canada UK USA

A Murder on the Appian Way

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Steven Saylor. (1996). ISBN 031214377X
Hardcover. Also available in paperback (ISBN 0312961731 ). This time, Gordianus gets mixed up in the murder of Publius Clodius. The fictional detective's investigations foreshadow the real events to come with the fall of the Republic.
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Roman Blood

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Steven Saylor. (1994). ISBN 0804110395
Also available as an audiobook (ISBN 0786110589 ). Gordianus helps Cicero investigate for the defense of Sextus Roscius (Cicero's first big case).
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The Venus Throw

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Steven Saylor. (1994). ISBN 0312957785
An Egyptian ambassador to Rome comes to Gordianus for help, plunging him into a tale of international intrigue and debauchery.
Buy from Amazon: Canada UK USA

Lindsey Davis (Marcus Didius Falco mysteries)

All by Lindsey Davis and in paperback, unless otherwise noted.

The Silver Pigs

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Lindsey Davis. (1989). ISBN 0345369076
Marcus Didius Falco runs into a beautiful woman in the Forum and helps her track down missing silver ingots in this first novel. Introduces Falco's family and his lady friend, Helena Justina.
Buy from Amazon: Canada UK USA

Shadows in Bronze

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Lindsey Davis. (1990). ISBN 0345373901
Falco wants to marry Justina, but finds himself too poor — until the Emperor Vespasian has a little job of spying he wants done ...
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Venus in Copper

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Lindsey Davis. (1991). ISBN 0345373901
Roman real-estate mogul Hortensius Novus is poisoned at a banquet, and his creepy fiancee, Severina Zotica, wants Falco to investigate.
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The Iron Hand of Mars

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Lindsey Davis. (1992). ISBN 034538024X
Falco goes undercover in Germania to enlist a Druid priestess' aid in finding a missing Roman general.
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Poseidon's Gold

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Lindsey Davis. (1992). ISBN 0345380258
Falco makes it back to Rome only to find himself a suspect in his brother's death.
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Last Act in Palmyra

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Lindsey Davis. (1997). ISBN 0446404748
Falco and Helena travel to Petra on a spy mission, only to find themselves mixed up with circus performers and a murder.
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Time to Depart

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Lindsey Davis. (1998). ISBN 0446605913
After a notorious criminal is banished from Rome, Falco and his staunchly upright friend Petronius join forces to stem a crime wave.
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A Dying Light in Corduba

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Lindsey Davis. (1996). ISBN 0446606804
Two Imperial spies are attacked, and one killed, after the olive oil barons' banquet. Falco must juggle a mystery with his own impending fatherhood.
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alternate Roman history by Kirk Mitchell

Procurator

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Kirk Mitchell. (1984). ISBN 0441680291
Alternate-history sf novel, a first novel.
Buy from Amazon: Canada UK USA

The New Barbarians

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Kirk Mitchell. (1986). ISBN 0441571018
Alternate-world sf novel of high-tech Romans vs. Aztecs, sequel to Procurator.
Buy from Amazon: Canada UK USA

Cry Republic

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Kirk Mitchell. (1989). ISBN 0441123899
Alternate history sf novel. Political intrigue in a 20th-century Roman empire. Third in a series.
Buy from Amazon: Canada UK USA

Simon Scarrow (The eagle novels)

Under the Eagle

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Simon Scarrow. (2002). ISBN 0312304242
A Tale of Military Adventure and Reckless Heroism with the Roman Legions
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