Reddit reviews Selections from Homer's Iliad

Lysias 1 and Xenophon Anabasis are pretty standard texts for post-first-year Greek. If you're feeling a bit more adventurous, perhaps a bit of Homer (or this, which I haven't used but looks interesting) or Herodotus. The dialectal differences aren't hard to pick up, and they feel like "lighter" reading.

There is /r/latin which, while not dedicated to Greek, should have enough general classicists to help you along.

http://www.amazon.com/Selections-Homers-Iliad-Rogers-Benner/dp/0806133635/ref=pd_sim_b_4
http://www.amazon.com/Lexicon-Homeric-Dialect-Richard-Cunliffe/dp/0806114304/ref=pd_sim_b_1

Those are the two texts I used when I studied Homer. We also used a parsed interlinear text. Here's Book 1. I don't know where the rest of it is. I'm not familiar with either of the books you mention. I had a fairly thorough introduction to Attic Greek before taking Homer and have a strong Latin background so I can't really say what wading straight into Homer will be like for you.

I just glanced at Pharr on the amazon preview. It looks fairly dense with a lot of page flipping to the back. It looks like text and vocabulary are in the chapter with references to the back for the grammar. It's going to require a lot of patience. There's really no easy way into Greek, but Homer in the original is one of the most beautiful things I've ever read so it will certainly be far more rewarding than it is punishing.

Good luck.