Nonfiction:

• Dinner With King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean
• Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble by Marilyn Johnson
• Digging Up Britain: Ten Discoveries, a Million Years of History by Mike Pitts
• Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts by Robert Mazza
• Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe’s Ancient Mystery by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
• The Grave Robber: The Biggest Stolen Artifacts Case in FBI History and the Bureau’s Quest to Set Things Right by Tim Carpenter
• Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins by Lee Berger & John Hawks

Biography:

• Come, Tell Me How You Live: An Archaeological Memoir by Agatha Christie Mallowan

Fiction:

• The Museum Detective by Maha Khan Phillips
• Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

Nonfiction:

• Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined by Stephen Fry

Biography:

• Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman

Fiction:

• The Lost Daughter of Sparta by Felicia Day
• I, Claudius by Robert Graves
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• Cleopatra’s Daughter by Michelle Moran
• The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great by Steven Pressfield
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough
• The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• River God by Wilbur A. Smith

Nonfiction:

• The Quran
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• The Analects of Confucius by Confucius
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• The Confessions of St. Augustine by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
• Lysistrata by Aristophanes, or any Greek play
• Beowulf
• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

Biography:

• Alfred the Great: Asser’s Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources by Asser & King Alfred

Fiction:

• The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Nonfiction:

• Chronicles of the Crusades by Jean de Joinville
• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Song of Roland
• The Mabinogion
• The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám
• The Travels by Marco Polo
• Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
• The Alexiad by Anna Komnene
• Anything by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, John Webster, or Thomas Kyd

Adult Exploration Kit:

• A History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth

Nonfiction:

• Common Sense by Thomas Paine
• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
• The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay
• The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne by John Donne

Fiction:

• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
• Candide by Voltaire
• Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
• Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
• Persuasion by Jane Austen

Adult Nonfiction:

• Tara Westover (Preston)
• Patrick F. McManus (Sandpoint)
• Ezra Pound (Hailey)

Adult Fiction:

• Sian Ann Bessey (Southeast Idaho)
• Anthony Doerr (Boise)
• Marilynne Robinson (Sandpoint)
• Brenda Stanley (Eastern Idaho)
• Vardis Fisher (Annis, Hagerman)
• Ernest Hemingway (Ketchum)
• Emily Ruskovich (Idaho Panhandle)

Teen Fiction:

• Cynthia Hand (Ririe)

Tween Fiction:

• Carol Ryrie Brink (Moscow)
• Jessica Day George (Sugar City)
• Wilson Rawls (Idaho Falls)