SPQR, by Mary Beard

This is a very good History book. The first part especially, until the end of the Republic, is just brilliant - the way the author reconstructs Roman history according to Roman sources is really interesting and up to the point, it's the best I've read so far. The second part is clearly inferior and it disappointed me somehow, but even so the depiction of the Roman way of life was extremely interesting and engaging. All in all, it's an excellent book.