AmongReaders.com Add a tiny library
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

The Charioteer of Delphi

Caroline Lawrence · back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Include books by the same author
❤️

Detectives in Togas

Henry Winterfeld · 227 pages

Ancient RomeMiddle GradeEnsemble CastAdventure
❤️

Circus Maximus

Damian Dibben

Ancient RomeMiddle GradeTeen ProtagonistAdventure
❤️

Wrath of the Storm

Jennifer A. Nielsen · 342 pages

Nicolas Calva has Caesar's magic bulla, the Malice of Mars, and he has hidden the dangerous Jupiter Stone, but he still has to find a way to defeat The Mistress, a dragon who contains the soul of the vestalis Atroxia, and who hates Rome, and save his mother and friends, and maybe even the Empire itself--and he is troubled by his sneaking sympathy for Atroxia, who was unjustly condemned.

Ancient RomeMiddle GradeTeen ProtagonistAdventure
🙂

Into the Gauntlet

Margaret Peterson Haddix

The explosive finale! Throughout the hunt for the 39 Clues, Amy and Dan Cahill have uncovered history's greatest mysteries and their family's deadliest secrets. But are they ready to face the truth about the Cahills and the key to their unmatched power? After a whirlwind race that's taken them across five continents, Amy and Dan face the most the difficult challenge yet-a task no Cahill dared to i

Middle GradeTeen ProtagonistEnsemble CastMystery
🙂

The Ides of April

Mary Ray · 168 pages

In Rome in 62 A.D., seventeen-year-old Hylas must find a way to save himself, his mother, and the other household slaves from imprisonment and imminent death when their master, a prominent senator, is found murdered.

Ancient RomeTeen ProtagonistHistorical FictionMiddle Grade
🙂

Outcast

Rosemary Sutcliff · 229 pages

Fifteen-year-old Beric feels increasingly bitter isolation when, because of his Roman birth, he is cast out by the Celtic tribe that raised him and, after reaching a Roman settlement, he is sold into slavery and sentenced to serve in a galley for the rest of his life.

Ancient RomeHistorical FictionAdventureMiddle Grade
🙂

Fight for Freedom

Simon Scarrow

Ancient RomeTeen ProtagonistAdventureHistorical Fiction
🙂

The Mystery of the Flaming Footprints

M.V. Carey · 182 pages

Summary:When an eccentric local artist disappears suddenly, the three investigators look into the matter

Middle GradeEnsemble CastTeen ProtagonistAdventure
🙂

Pompeii: A Roman Girl's Diary, AD 78

Sue Reid · 172 pages

It's August AD 78 and Claudia is at the Forum in Pompeii. It's a day of strange encounters and even odder portents. When the ground shakes Claudia is convinced it is a bad omen. What does it all mean? And why is she so disturbed by Vesuvius, the great volcano that looms over the city.

Ancient RomeMiddle GradeHistorical FictionTeen Protagonist
🙂

The Mysterious Benedict Society Collection

Trenton Lee Stewart · 1,872 pages

Middle GradeEnsemble CastTeen ProtagonistAdventure
🙂

The Secret of Skeleton Island

Robert Arthur · 155 pages

Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews fly to Skeleton Island at Alfred Hitchcock's request to help Pete's father with a motion picture and secretly find out why their equipment is being sabotaged. No more do they step off the plane than they encounter trouble. The Three Investigators are stranded on an island in a storm, a phantom rides on the carousel of the abandoned amusement park, and

Middle GradeEnsemble CastTeen ProtagonistAdventure
🙂

Ring of Fire

Pierdomenico Baccalario

Every hundred years, four kids from four cities must save the world.Rome, December 29.A mix-up with their reservations forces Harvey from New York, Mistral from Paris, and Sheng from Shanghai to share a room with the hotel owner's daughter, Elettra. The four kids discover an amazing coincidence--they all have birthdays on February 29, Leap Day. That night, a strange man gives them a briefcase and

Middle GradeEnsemble CastTeen ProtagonistAdventure
🙂

The Iron Hand of Mars

Lindsey Davis · 305 pages

Ancient RomeHistorical FictionMysteryAdventure
🙂

Mark of the Plague

Kevin Sands · 529 pages

As the plague decimates London in 1665 and an assassin threatens the apothecary's life, apprentice Christopher Rowe and his faithful friend Tom, following a trail of puzzles, riddles, and secrets, risk their lives to untangle the heart of a dark conspiracy.

Middle GradeTeen ProtagonistAdventureHistorical Fiction
🙂

The Big Six

Arthur Ransome · 383 pages

The second of Ransome's books set in the Norfolk Broads, the protagonists of Coot Club are accused of casting boats adrift, a terrible crime on any waterfront. They go cruising, fishing, eeling, discover the real villains, and there is lots of good stuff about sailing, photography (now of historical interest) and the odd part of England that is the Broads.

Middle GradeEnsemble CastTeen ProtagonistAdventure
🙂

The Blood of Olympus

Rick Riordan · 536 pages

Nico had warned them. Going through the House of Hades would stir the demigods' worst memories. Their ghosts would become restless. Nico may actually become a ghost if he has to shadow-travel with Reyna and Coach Hedge one more time. But that might be better than the alternative: allowing someone else to die, as Hades foretold. Jason's ghost is his mother, who abandoned him when he was little.

Middle GradeAncient RomeEnsemble CastTeen Protagonist
🙂

Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Ghostly Galleon

Kathryn Kenny · 211 pages

Trixie Belden and her friends help to solve some mysterious misdeeds at the Pirate's Inn.

Middle GradeTeen ProtagonistEnsemble CastMystery
🙂

The Mystery of the Dead Man's Riddle

William Arden · 160 pages

An eccentric millionaire leaves his entire fortune to the person who can decipher the crazy riddles in his will. Jupe, Pete and Bob join in the hunt for Dingo Towne’s treasure and are beset by greedy villains, hidden dangers and unknown menaces.

Middle GradeEnsemble CastAdventureTeen Protagonist
🙂

Masters of Rome

Robert Fabbri

Britannia, 45 AD: Vespasian's brother, Sabinus, is captured by druids. The druids want to offer a potent sacrifice to their gods - not just one Roman Legate, but two. They know that Vespasian will come after his brother and they plan to sacrifice the siblings on mid-summer's day. But to whom will they be making this sacrifice? What were the gods of this land before the Celts came? Only the druids

Ancient RomeHistorical FictionAdventureSeries
🙂

The Invasion of Gaul

S.J.A. Turney

Ancient RomeEnsemble CastHistorical FictionSeries
🙂

See You Later, Gladiator

Jon Scieszka, Adam McCauley · 87 pages

Everyone’s favorite time-travelers are changing their style! The Time Warp Trio series now features a brand-new, eye-catching design, sure to appeal to longtime fans, and those new to Jon Scieszka’s wacky brand of humor.

Ancient RomeMiddle GradeAdventureSeries
🙂

The Penultimate Peril

Lemony Snicket · 353 pages

Dear Reader, If this is the first book you found while searching for a book to read next, then the first thing you should know is that this next-to-last book is what you should put down first. Sadly, this book presents the next-to-last chronicle of the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, and it is next-to-first in its supply of misery, despair, and unpleasantness. Probably the next-to-last thin

Middle GradeEnsemble CastMysteryAdventure
🙂

The Gates of Rome

Conn Iggulden · 452 pages

Ancient RomeAdventureHistorical FictionSeries
🙂

The Wolf's Gold

Anthony Riches · 400 pages

The fifth book in the Empire sequence (following The Leopard Sword) takes centurion Marcus to Dacia, to save the empire's best gold mines from an unexpected enemy. Praised by authors as varied as Conn Igguleden, Ben Kane and Manda Scott, Empire is set in the 180s against the background of the Roman Empire in a time of unrest.

Ancient RomeAdventureHistorical FictionSeries

In the works

To be read SpinnerCan’t pick your next book? Spin your Want to read.Blind date with a bookPick a mood, unwrap a surprise.Add a tiny librarySnap a little free library and its books.