Books I think everyone should read

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I was recently approached by a friend who was complaining about not having any good books to read for pleasure. So, being a bibliophile of some renown around here, I was persuaded to write a list of books I would recommend to my friend. After much reflection, I provided the following list, which constitutes a fairly good list, though necessarily incomplete, of books which I think everybody ought to read:

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
  
• Father Arseny, by Vera Bouteneff
  
• Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton
  
• The Great Divorce, by C. S. Lewis
  
• King Solomon's Mines, by H. Ridder Haggard
  
• The trial and death of Socrates, by Plato
  
  
• Euthyphro
  
• Apology
  
• Crito
  
• Phædo