Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

The book I've reread the most is The Odyssey. For a long time, I've read it once every year. Another book I've read many times is Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. I've read Asimov's cycle of Foundation many times. Don't know how many, actually. I've also read several times some philosophy classics, particularly Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, Apology and Republic. Then there are many books that I've read at least twice, almost all considered classics (from 1984 to LoTR, Great expectations to Tom Sawyer, Crime and punishment to Twenty thousand leagues under the sea, etc).

When I was a child, I loved Jules Vernes' novels. My favorite were "L'île mystérieuse" et "Michel Strogoff". I've read them again after a few decades, and I enjoyed them both. "L'île mystérieuse" is the survival adventure of a small and disparate group, but the main theme is how science can dominate nature. The mystery part is better enjoyed if the reader knows a bit of Jules Verne' other books. "Michel Strogoff" is a pure and romantic adventure in Russia, at the time of the Tatar invasions. It was sometimes brutal for a child reader, but I could still remember many scenes thirty years later. Other good novels are "Voyage au centre de la terre", "Vingt-mille lieues sous les mers", "Cinq semaines en ballon", "Le tour du monde en 80 jours", "Les indes noires". I've a few others which I enjoyed at a lesser point.

Some links from Project Gutenberg: Essays, by Michel de Montaigne In English (Vol. 1), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3581 In French (Vol. 1), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48529 Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius English translation by George W. Chrystal, 1902 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55317 English translation by George Long, 1957 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15877 Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo In English (Full), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/135 In French (Vol. 1), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17489 20000 leagues under the sea, by Jules Vernes In English (slightly abridged), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/164 In French (with illustration), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54873

20000 lieux sous les mers !

Love that book.