A Late Contender for the Challenge Crown?

[bookgazing]

I still really want to do this (if I don't type what it is, it's like I'm not really serious) because clearly I am insane. The dealine is in 2010...

I'd need some good recommendations, so far I'm thinking Juvenal and Le Morte D'Arthur would fit the bill but what else?

Off to be sensible now and bury my head in short, contemporary fiction.