/lit/ - Literature

Post what you are currently reading and the next few books you have lined up after that. Critique each other if you want, since /lit/ seems to like that sort of thing.

Current: Notes from Underground and The World as Will and Representation

Lolita
The Perennial Philosophy
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Steppenwolf
Plutarch's Roman Lives
Myth of Sysphus
Beyond Good and Evil
Thus Spoke Zaruthustra
Gulliver's Travels
The Communis Manifesto
Electric Kool-aid Acid Test
The Doors of Perception

>Reading during break in class
>Girl asks me what I'm reading
>Tell her Crime and Punishment
>She squeals and says she watched the movie, it was so romantic

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What's a good book about Rome right before the empire? History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is after the founding and Livy's histories are way before from what I can see on amazon. I want to read about Julius and Augustus and Cicero and all those cool guys. What is THE book to read about that time period in Rome?