It's the Roman empire and someone's just committed suicide. OR HAS HE???!!! The informer, Marcus Didius Falco, is brought in to find out.
This is the first mystery novel by Lindsey Davis that I've read. A female mystery novelist? Yes, it's cliche, but she's pretty talented. Marcus Didius Falco is a recurring character in her books, and his snarky witticisms just charmed me. The chapters are very brief, and it took me quite a few of them before I had a handle on the character names. I wasn't on the edge of my seat till halfway through, but I had a great time reading this book and would recommend it to anyone.
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Hello everyone! Meet Tyler. We're changing the name, but the spirit is the same. Join me as I read through my local library alphabetically (minus kids books and smut). We may just find a gem. - Bekah Join ME on an adventure through the classics............... slowly. The 165 book Lifetime Reading List will likely take the creator precisely that amount of time to complete. See below for more details. - Tyler
Tyler's Lifetime Reading List
- Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler
- Aesop's Fables - Aesop
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- The Three Muskateers - Alexandre Dumas
- The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
- Ethics, Politics - Aristotle
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
- Dr. Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
- Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
- The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
- The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis
- A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- Mutiny on the Bounty - Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- War and Peace - Count Leo Tolstoy
- Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
- The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
- Inferno - Dante Alighieri
- The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
- The Selected Works of E.E. Cummings - E.E. Cummings
- The Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe
- Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
- Germinal - Emile Zola
- Wutherin Heights - Emily Bronte
- The Selected Works of Emily Dickenson - Emily Dickenson
- All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
- Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemmingway
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemmingway
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Selected Works of Francis Scott Key - Francis Scott Key
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- Cry, the Beloved Country - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
- 1984 - George Orwell
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- The Holy Bible - God
- Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
- Journey To the Center of the Earth - H.G. Wells
- The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
- War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
- To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
- Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Selected Works of Henry David Thoreau - Henry David Thoreau
- The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
- The Selected Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The Selected Works of Herman Melville - Herman Melville
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- The Iliad - Homer
- The Odyssey - Homer
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- Out of Africe - Isak Dinesen
- Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
- Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
- On the Road - Jack Kerouac
- Call of the Wild - Jack London
- White Fan - Jack London
- Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
- The Thin Red Line - James Jones
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- Inherit the Wind - Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee
- The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Rudolf Wyss
- Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Paradise Lost - John Milton
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
- Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
- Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
- The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum and W.W. Denslow
- The Selected Works of Langston Hughes - Langston Hughes
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carol
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
- Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
- Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
- Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- Frankenstein - Mary Godwin Shelley
- The Selected Works of Maya Angelou - Maya Angelou
- The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
- The Qur'an - Muhammed
- The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The House of Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Selected Works of Ogden Nash - Ogden Nash
- The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde
- The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
- The Reverse of the Metal - Oscar Wilde
- Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian
- Post Captain - Patrick O'Brian
- The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
- The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
- The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry - Richard Ellman and Robert O'Clair
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Ronald Dahl
- The Selected Works of Robert Frost - Robert Frost
- Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde - Robert Lewis Stevenson
- Treasure Island - Robert Lewis Stevenson
- The Selected Works of Shel Silverstien - Shel Silverstien
- Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
- Antigone - Sophocles
- Oedepus and Colonus - Sophocles
- Oedepus Res - Sophocles
- The Red and the Black - Stendahl
- The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
- It - Stephen King
- The Shining - Stephen King
- The Stand - Stephen King
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- The Selected Words of T.S. Elliot - T.S. Elliot
- A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
- The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
- Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett
- The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett
- Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
- Men at Arms - Terry Pratchett
- Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
- Thud! - Terry Pratchett
- Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
- Our Town - Thornton Wilder
- The History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
- Beowulf
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
- The Aneid - Virgil
- Candide - Voltaire
- H.M.S. Pinafore - W. S. Gilbert
- The Selected Works of Walt Wittman - Walt Wittman
- As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- The Turner Diaries - William Luther Pierce
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Selected Works of William Shakespeare - William Shakespeare
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