What's a good example of a really ancient book and/or novel? Like, Tale of Genji comes to mind, being arguably the first novel, but curious what other folks think of, too.

Le Morte d' Arthur seems like a good example, perhaps?

Context being trying to think of a good name for a package intended to work with old book formats, using the name of a famously old book as a cheeky nod to that usecase.

@xgranade The Egyptian Book of the Dead

Epic of Gilgamesh

@cthos It would be so hard for me to not read "Greg" every time, but it's a very good suggestion!
@cthos Amusingly, there's several Python packages named "enkidu" already.
@xgranade This doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

@cthos One of them is dedicated to fetching random anime gifs for use in Discord bots.

Humans are wonderful.