>be me >find shitty library with nothing but history books

If your library is that small just start grabbing them at random.

>>8428370
>be me

newfag gtfo


>I enjoyed Livy's works if they are available to you. I never really cared much for any other Roman historian.

>>8428379
Seconding Livy, who is a blast.

PS if you like Rome, but not other Roman historians (i.e., historians from Rome, not those writing about it), check out Polybius, who's Greek, covers some cool material (Punic Wars), and is famous on his own rite in being one of the ancient world's best teachers of reading and writing history.

Also try Sallust (Roman), he's not super well known but is short and extremely interesting.

>>8428370

Some say James Boswell's biography of Samuel Johnson is the greatest example of the genre.

>>8428527
Has anyone on this board actually read Boswell's bio, or anything by Johnson? I've never heard either actually discussed.