The Library of Photius, Vol. 1 (transl. John Freese)
A fantastically fun read, especially since many of the book Photius wrote about are no longer extant. The author, John Freese, selected the first 165 of Photius’s 279 entries. They cover religious and secular texts from Christian and non-Christian authors.
I especially enjoyed the entries for Appian (LVII, his Roman history, almost ½ of which is no longer extant), Herodotus (LX, histories), Aeschines (LXI, one of the ten Attic orators), Praxagoras (LXII, history of Constantine, no longer extant), Procopius (LXIII, historian 6th c. CE), Theophanes of Byzantium (LXIV, 6th c. CE, first Roman mention of getting silk from worms!), Hesychius Illustrius (LXIX, history), Diodorus Siculus (LXX, only 15 of 40 books of his history still extant), Dio Cassius (LXXI, yay Dio!, of his 80 books that Photius saw, only books 37-60 in full are extant and 36-80 only in epitomized form), Ctesias of Cnidus (LXXII, Greek historian of 5th c. BCE), Dionysisus of Halicarnassus (LXXXIII, histories), Arrian (XCI, one of the canonical sources on Alexander the Great), Herodian (XCIX, history), Helladius (CXLV, lexicon of 5th c. CE grammarian), Isocrates (CLIX, letters and orations), and Galen (CLXIV, on medical schools).