Ancient World Book Club 2024 Reading List
For all of you who like to plan in advance, here’s a big ol’ list of everything we’re going to read this year for the Ancient World Book Club!
January: Homer’s Iliad (books 1-4)
Click here for the Storygraph reading group.
Click here for my Iliad reading guide.
February: Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
Click here for the Storygraph reading group.
Click here to watch Natalie answer our questions about Stone Blind.
Click here for recommendations for more Medusa, Danaë, and Perseus retellings.
March: Sappho’s poems and fragments
Click here for the Storygraph reading group.
April: Winter Harvest by Ioanna Papadopoulou
May: Plato’s Apology
(bonus: Plato’s Phaedo)
June: Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
July: Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus
(bonus: Sophocles’ Antigone)
August: Clytemnestra’s Bind by Susan C. Wilson
September: Herodotus’s Histories (books 1-2)
(bonus: the rest of the Histories)
October: Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou
November: Lucian’s True Story
(bonus: Lucian’s How to Write History)
