- 12 Caesars by Seutonius
- The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton
- Roman Lives by Plutarch
- The Satires by Juvenal
- The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Kelly
- March of Folly by Barbara Tuchman
- Augustus by Anthony Everitt
- Rubicon by Tom Holland
- Lost to the West by Lars Brownworth
- The Jewish Wars by Josephus
- Hannibal: One Man Against Rome by Harold Lamb
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
- Rome at War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic by Nathan Rosenstein
- The Spartacus War by Barry Strauss
- Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Rome and the Mediterranean by Polybius
- The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
- The Roman Empire and Julius Caesar by iMinds (for kids)
- Cleopatra and Antony by Diana Preston
- The Peloponnesian Wars by Thucydides
- The Histories by Herodotus
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Pompeii: Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard
- Caesar's Legion by Stephen Dando-Collins
- The Ghosts of Cannae by Robert O'Connell
- How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
- The Great Fire of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins
- The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians by J.B. Bury
- The History of Britain Vol. 1 by Simon Schama
- Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
- Marathon: The Battled That Changed Western Civilization
- The Ides: Caesar's Murder and The War for Rome by Stephen Dand-Collins
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jake Weatherford (thanks to Charles)
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (thanks to GrandpaD)
- The Poison King by Adrienne Mayor
- Julius Caesar by Samual Willard Crompton
- The Big Short by Michael Lewis (thanks to Casey)
- I, Claudius by Robert Graves (thanks to Daniel)
- Imperium and Conspirata by Robert Harris (thanks to Paul)
