Since we are throwing up book lists I’ll add mine:

Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations
Robert Middlekauff’s The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution
(reading this made me fall in love all over again with my country)
Alvin Josephy’s The Patriot Chiefs: A Chronicle of American Indian Resistance
Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn
Edmund Morris’ The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Goethe’s Faust
Melville’s Moby Dick
Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland
Tacitus’ Annals and Histories
George Stewart’s Earth Abides
-while not books these should be included in any to-read list:
Shakespeare’s King Lear
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Shakespeare’s MacBeth