Some of my favorite books/texts read:
The Iliad of Homer (Richmond Lattimore trans.)
The War That Killed Achilles (Caroline Alexander)
The Trojan War in Ancient Art (Susan Woodford)
The Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
The Oresteia (Aeschylus)
Iphigenia (Euripides)
Symposium and The Republic (Plato)
The Early History of Rome (Livy)
The Rise of the Roman Empire (Polybius)
Marcus Aurelius in Love (Amy Richlin trans.)
Candide (Voltaire)
Persian Letters (Montesquieu)
Essais (Michel de Montaigne)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)
On Liberty (J.S. Mill)
Democracy in America (Alexis de Tocqueville)
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Ironweed (William Kennedy)
El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Gabriel García Márquez)
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours (Gregory Nagy)
The Ethics of Immigration (Joseph Carens)
The Terror of Natural Rights: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution (Dan Edelstein)
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Irin Carmon)
The Song of Achilles (Madeline Miller)