Jeezuz, you may as well ask what my fav. Stones' song is!
Anyway, including but certainly not limited to (i'm gonna try to organize this somewhat chronologically):
History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
Annals of Imperial Rome, Tacitus
Confessions, Saint Augustine
Book of the Courtier, Castiglione
Utopia, Thomas More
Paradise Lost, Milton
Lost Illusions, Honore de Bal
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