This is a great list, and I have enjoyed (or endured, perhaps, during a lit class!) almost all of this list.

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Satire of the English aristocracy at its finest. A Modest Proposal is my absolute favorite of his because an American assured "that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout."

It would be hard to go wrong there.

I've read a good portion of them but at my age I like more current books. I just finished "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" by Yuval Noah Harari who also wrote "Sapiens" and "Homo Deus". For me contemporary books just have more appeal at this point in my life

I have heard of all of them and have read many.

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