The 2024 Literary Life Podcast Reading Challenge - hosted by allydee

The Ancients
All books added
The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

128 pages • first pub -500 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy informative reflective fast-paced
The Illiad of Homer - Translated and with an Introduction By Richmond Lattimore by Richard Homer; Lattimore

The Illiad of Homer - Translated and with an Introduction By Richmond Lattimore

Richard Homer; Lattimore

608 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics
The Plutarch Project, Volume Six: Aemilius Paulus, Aristides, and Solon by Anne E. White, Plutarch

The Plutarch Project, Volume Six: Aemilius Paulus, Aristides, and Solon

Anne E. White, Plutarch

166 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

adventurous informative tense medium-paced
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

Tom Holland

418 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
Plutarch’s Lives: Life of Fabius Maximus by Plutarch
Plutarch’s Lives: Life of Fabius Maximus
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Plutarch

Plutarch’s Lives: Life of Fabius Maximus

Plutarch

32 pages • missing pub info (editions)

Medea by Euripides

Medea

Euripides

100 pages • first pub -431 (editions)

fiction classics play dark emotional tense fast-paced
The Aeneid by Virgil

The Aeneid

Virgil

392 pages • first pub -19 (editions)

fiction classics poetry adventurous challenging medium-paced
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus

Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus

1 hour, 12 minutes • first pub -480 (editions) user-added

fiction classics play dark medium-paced
Dialogue with Trypho by Justin Martyr

Dialogue with Trypho

Justin Martyr

229 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy religion challenging medium-paced
Poetics by Aristotle

Poetics

Aristotle

103 pages • first pub -335 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced