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user-inactivated  ·  4099 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 24 books you've probably never heard of but will change your life

gutenberg links for a few of these. several of them were old enough to be public domain, but unavailable.

1. Cyropaedia (probably not the recommended translation)

3. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (probably not the recommended translation)

4. The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by Giorgio Vasari

5. The Man Without a Country by Edward E. Hale

7. Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce (actually an unofficial collection, so i just linked to author page)

8. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by George Devol

9. Hunger by Knut Hamsun

10. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by George Horace Lorimer

13. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis