Ten books recently added to my to-be-read list:

Fiction

• Vita Brevis, Ruth Downie
• Range of Ghosts, Elizabeth Bear
• The Centurions, Jean Lartéguy
• The Shards of Heaven, Michael Livingston
• Burning Glass, Kathryn Purdie

Nonfiction

• A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’ Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, Christopher Krebs
• An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, David Mattingly
• Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century AD, Noel Lenski
• Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin, Nicholas Ostler
• The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria, Samar Yazbek

Fiction

• An Ember in the Ashes, Sabaa Tahir
• Legacy of Kings, Eleanor Herman
• The Winner’s Crime, Marie Rutkoski
• A Thousand Nights, E.K. Johnston
• The Wrath and the Dawn, Renee Ahdieh
• An Inheritance of Ashes, Leah Bobet
• Crimson Bound, Rosamund Hodge
• A Year of Ravens: A Novel of Boudica’s Rebellion, various

Nonfiction

• SPQR, Mary Beard
• Coming Out Christian in the Roman World, Douglas Boin