Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea- Jules Verne (1870). Also many other novels by the same author.
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#12In the 'travel essay' genre, Xavier de Maistre's "A Journey Round My Room"
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-journey-round-m...
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#13Don Quixote
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#15Michel de Montaigne, his Essays are awesome and touch a wide range of subjects. The 100+ chapters in three books require an investment that will payoff.
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#16That's quite a broad category. At least 100 years ago was a good period for books and essays.
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#17The Bible.
Mysterious Island (1874), Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), and other books by Jules Verne.
Books by James Fenimore Cooper.
The Sea-Wolf (1904) by Jack London.
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844) by Alexandre Dumas.
Oliver Twist (1839) by Charles Dickens.
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#19Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Essays by Michel de Montaigne
Self Reliance by Emerson
Theory of Moral Sentiment by Adam Smith
A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume
And the memoir of my vote for the most interesting man who ever lived, Humphry Davy's Consolations in Travel
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#20Economics:
- The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
- Das Kapital, Karl Marx
- That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen, Frederic Bastiat
Philosophy / Politics:
- The Republic, Plato
- Second Treatise on Government, John Locke
- The Law, Frederic Bastiat
- Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
- Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
- Democracy in America, Alexis de Toqueville
- On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
Fiction:
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Mark Twain
- The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin
- Metamorphoses, Franz Kafka
- Candide, Voltaire
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas