Five top books about ancient Rome

Daniel Godfrey is the author of the novel New Pompeii. One of his five top books about ancient Rome, as shared at Tor.com:The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis

Roman novels often center on big battles that formed or defined the Empire. The Silver Pigs instead uses the Roman backdrop to set up a mystery, relating to the smuggling of silver ingots, or “pigs.” We are soon introduced to our proto-private