Can't Get Enough Austen

If you've read all of Austen's novels and are hungry for more, she left behind three unfinished words: Sandition, The Watsons, and Lady Susan. These can be found packaged together by several publishers, and sometimes tacked on to publications of her completed novels.

Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzche's classic Thus Spoke Zarathurstra is considered among his most well-known and important works. Rather than a treatise, Zarathustra is comprised of "passsionate utterances [...] couched in a pseudo-biblical German."

Find out if God is dead, and if the superman is nigh!

Jules Verne

Action! Adventure! Fantasy!

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Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill's seminal work, Utilitarianism, helped to define the movement. Read, also, Jeremy Bentham's works on the subject.

Self-Reliance

Self-Reliance, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas. It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" (often misquoted by omission of the word "foolish").

Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is the quintessential detective. Have you read all 4 novels and 56 short stories?