Our first of two chats on Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt is this coming Wednesday, November 5.
Let's try through Chapter XII "East is East and West is West," which is about half-way through the actual body of the book.
Here is my review from 2007. As you can see, I do have some problems with the book, but that may be all to the good, as it creates plenty of discussion points for our chat ;-)