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[quote=Anonymous]I'm terms of the Greek and Roman classics, add the Aeneid to the Iliad and Odyssey. But keep in mind that you want to find a "good translation" of these epic poems. Often translators strive to be very accurate to the text and the English comes out a little awkward. Or they try to put  It into poetry which  is fine but maybe a bit stilted sometimes. So try to see which translation is better reviewed, and see if they contain useful footnotes to explain things which may be hard to pick up without being a history major.
Ovid's Metamorphoses retells a lot of myths, and Plutarch provided some short biographies of Caesar, Cicero, and many other Romans of the time. (My paperback has them all in one volume.). You might really like these, OP, if you have a interest in history. I personally have never read Caesar's own writings about his campaigns. While generations  of British schoolboys learned Latin through the originals of these, i have not been inclined to pore through military history.Roman history is fascinating to me, though.
More recently, agree with to kill a mockingbird. Loved it! Also tale of two cities and hamlet, the last one so embedded in modern culture that it's worth knowing about. 
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